Welcome to Thematic Trails
Landscape guides, walking companions, reference booklets.Themes span: landscape, geology, geography, ecology, history, archaeology, architecture.
Cornwall. Devon. Jurassic coast. Dorset. Somerset. Gloucestershire. Wiltshire. Cotswolds. Oxfordshire.
Thematic Trails specialise in publishing literature which, through education as a source of pleasure and recreation, aims to increase our understanding, interpretation and appreciation of valued environments. The guides, often described as landscape companions, combine clear directions with a straightforward commentary designed to be stimulating by offering observations and explanation of the theme being explored.
The booklets are written in a form suitable for both interested non-specialists, and those with a more specialist interest, who may use the guides as a basis for a deeper or more formal examination of the themes introduced. In this catalogue, our own publications are supplemented by an array of recommended books which we stock, since they share our belief in the value of landscape interpretation.
Landscape Companions in South West England - District Headings.
- The Lizard - Lizard peninsula - Ruan Minor - Cadgwith - St Keverne
- North Cornish Coast - Bude - Crackington - Boscastle - Tintagel - Trevone - Pentire - North Cornwall Geology
- South Cornwall and Bodmin - Bodmin Moor - St Austell - Geology South East Cornwall.
- North Devon - Hartland Coast - Classic Landforms of the North Devon Coast - Cliffs of Hartland Quay - Geology at Hartland Quay - Strawberry Water to Marsland Mouth.
- Westward Ho! - Westward Ho! against the sea - Cliffs of Westward Ho! - Erosion and Management.
- Taw-Torridge Estuary - Braunton Burrows Ecology - Wild flowers - Northam Burrows - Estuary Environments - Taw-Torridge Archaeology.
- North Devon History - Bucks Mills - Bideford - Barnstaple - Appledore - Westward Ho!
- Exmoor Coast - Hidden Edge of Exmoor - Lynton Valley of Rocks - Lyn in Flood - Cliffs of Saunton
- Dartmoor and South Devon - Dartmoor Landscape (Burrator - Meldon Valley) - Dartmoor Archaeology (Merrivale - Houndtor) - Exe in Flood - Exeter in Stone - Dawlish Warren and the Sea - Dawlish Warren Ecology Trail - SE Devon (Jurassic Coast).
- Jurassic Coast (Dorset and SE Devon) - Coast Guide - Geology - Wildlife - The Undercliff - West Dorset - Studland - Ballard Down - Old Harry Rocks
- Bristol, Bath, Somerset, Wiltshire - Bristol - Bath -Somerset - Wiltshire
- Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds - Gloucester - Cirencester - Cotswolds - Soudley Valley - Cleeve Hill - Leckhampton Hill - Robinswood Hill - Crickley Hill - Chedworth Valley - South Cerney - Keynes Country Park - Huntsmans Quarry - Foss Quarry - Coates and The Thames & Severn Canal - Chedworth Railway Cutting
- Oxford City - Oxford Walks (Architecture – Medieval walled town - In Flood – Green Places – Ecology in the city – Waterways – Tolkein and CS Lewis – Alice – Churches –Colleges – High Street – Stained Glass – Science walk).
- Oxfordshire - Landscapes -
1. Physical landscape and Oxfordshire Geology Trust - Faringdon - Kirtlington - Bletchingdon - Oxford City - Stonesfield - Adderbury - White Horse Hill - Burford - Chipping Norton.
2. History and Landscape - Roman Way - Seven Shires Way - Vale of White Horse - Ginge to Lockinge - Abingdon Turnpike Murder.
- Oxfordshire Community Literature Project ~ a programme which supports locally published literature within the county.
- Oxfordshire - The Golden Ridge - Longworth, Kingston Bagpuize, Southmoor, Hinton Waldrist
- Cities in Stone - Exeter - Bath - Bristol - Gloucester - Huddersfield
- Rivers in Flood - Lyn - Exe - Thames at Oxford - Boscastle
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