by Tom Fort
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ref1
Ankh-Morpork, fictional city-state, twinned with Wincanton, ref1
Anna, Vale of, Hampshire, ref1
Annie’s Tea Bar, incomparable watering hole at west end of A303, ref1, ref2
Antrobus, Sir Edmond (various):
buys Amesbury estate, ref1
rebuff to archaeologists, ref1, ref2
offer to sell Stonehenge, ref1
end of line ref1
curse of Druids ref1
Atkinson, Professor Richard, archaeologist, ref1 (footnote)
Aubrey, John, antiquarian:
on shepherd’s outfit, ref1
Warminster market, ref1
turf of Salisbury Plain, ref1
Augé, Marc, French philosopher, ref1
Austen, Jane, novelist, ref1, ref2
Austin A40, motor car, ref1
Austin Cambridge, motor car, ref1
Autocar, magazine: blueprint, ref1
public transport, ref1
foreign motoring holidays, ref1
Avebury, stone circle, ref1, ref2
Avenue, The, approach to Stonehenge, ref1
Avon, River:
trout and grayling, xv
valley, ref1
at Salisbury, ref1
elbow, ref1
Amesbury, ref1
Amesbury Abbey, ref1
bluestones for Stonehenge, ref1
water-meadows, ref1, ref2
salmon, ref1
bridge, ref1
Harrow Way, ref1
Bacon, Roger, mage, born in Ilchester, ref1
Badbury Rings, Dorset, Iron Age hill fort, ref1
Bagshot, Surrey, ref1, ref2
Baldwin, Stanley, Conservative politician, on Stonehenge, ref1
Ballard, J. G., novelist, ref1
Bally, the Reverend George, Rector of Monxton, ref1
Barford St Martin, Wiltshire, ref1
Barnes, Alfred, Labour Transport Minister 1946, ref1, ref2, ref3
Barry, Madame du, mistress of Louis XV, ref1 (footnote)
Barton Stacey, Hampshire, ref1
Basingstoke, Hampshire:
start of A303, xvi
northern bypass, ref1, ref2
Chamber of Commerce, ref1
Crematorium, ref1
Bath, Somerset, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bath, Marquess of, campaigns for Wessex, ref1
BBC:
commissions The Monocled Mutineer, ref1, ref2
attacked by right-wing press, ref1
alleged bias, ref1
and Derek ‘Red Robbo’ Robinson, ref1
Beacon Hill, Wiltshire:
view from, ref1
and Stonehenge, ref1, ref2, ref3
and The Ancestor, ref1
land west of, ref1
traffic, ref1
planned road, ref1
chalk, ref1
Beanfield, Battle of, 1985:
Peace Convoy attacked by police, ref1
Lord Cardigan, ref1
charges arising from dropped, ref1
Beckford, William, author of Vathek, owner of Fonthill:
commissions Fonthill Abbey, ref1
entertains, ref1
flogs tenants, ref1
longs for attention, ref1
Belloc, Hilaire, author of The Old Road, ref1
Bennett, the Reverend James, Rector of South Cadbury:
enthusiast for past, ref1
identifies Cadbury Castle as Camelot, ref1
Benson, William, Milton enthusiast, ref1
Berkshire Downs, ref1, ref2
Berwick St James, Wiltshire, ref1, ref2
Bilk, Acker, clarinettist and member of Wessex Society, ref1
Black Wood, Hampshire, ref1
Blackdown Hills, Devon/Somerset:
view of from Whitesheet Hill, ref1
view from Ham Hill, ref1
protests over planned road through, ref1
beauty of scenery, ref1
Bladud, mythical king, mythical founder of Bath, ref1
Blair, Tony:
storms into Downing Street, ref1
road policy ref1
road building, ref1
in fear of Mondeo Man, ref1
orders review of road transport, ref1
Bleasdale, Alan, dramatist, ref1
Blumenthal, Heston, chef:
recruited to transform Little Chef, ref1
fate of new dishes, ref1
Blunt, William Scawen, poet, horse-breeder, Arabist, seducer, ref1
Boscombe, Wiltshire, ref1
Boscombe Down Airfield:
conspiracy theories, ref1
The Ancestor, ref1
Bourne, River, Hampshire, ref1
Bourne, River, Wiltshire, ref1, ref2
Bourton, Dorset:
bypass, ref1
most northerly village in county, ref1
famous water wheel, ref1
River Stour, ref1
Bowle, the Reverend John ‘Don’, Rector of Idmiston, Wiltshire, author of The Life of Cervantes, ref1
Boycott, Rosie, journalist, weekend home at Ilminster, ref1,
Boys from the Blackstuff, television drama, ref1
Bridle, William, in charge of Ilchester Gaol:
and Henry ‘Orator’ Hunt, ref1
accused of vices, ref1
reduced to poverty and distress, ref1
Brill, Edith, co-author of The Lost Trackways of Wessex, ref1, ref2, ref3
Britton, John, author of The Beauties of Wiltshire, ref1
Broadway, Giles, convicted sodomite, ref1
Brown, Bob, Labour MP and junior transport minister:
opens Andover bypass, ref1
speech, ref1
Harewood Forest, ref1
Brown, Gordon, Prime Minister, ref1, ref2
Brown, Ivor, journalist, ref1
Browne, Henry, Stonehenge guide, ref1, ref2
Browne, Joseph, Stonehenge guide, ref1
Brydges, Lady Anne, wife of the Earl of Castlehaven, ref1
Buchanan, Professor Sir Colin, transport expert:
state’s duty to manage traffic, ref1
traffic in towns and cities, ref1
Newbury, ref1
Bulford army camp, Wiltshire, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bull Inn, Ilchester, ref1
Bullington Cross, public house and road interchange, ref1
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, painter, ref1
Bush Barrow, prehistoric burial site:
first excavation, ref1
discoveries, ref1
gold pins, ref1
possible significance of, ref1
Byron, Robert, travel writer and architectural historian, ref1
Cadbury Castle, Somerset:
hilltop settlement, ref1
identified as Camelot, ref1
Camden, William, Elizabethan historian, ref1, ref2
Camelot, musical by Lerner and Loewe, beloved by President John F. Kennedy, ref1
Camelot, mythical Arthurian capital identified with Cadbury Castle, Somerset, ref1
Cameron, David, Conservative Prime Minister, ref1
Canning, George, politician and statesman, ref1
Cardigan, Lord, witness of Battle of the Beanfield, ref1
Carse, Captain, of the Wiltshire Fire Brigade, ref1
Castle, Barbara, Labour Minister of Transport 1965:
indisputable heavyweight, ref1
road-building programme, ref1
Castle Cary, Somerset, ref1, ref2
chalk, porous rock:
and landscape, ref1, ref2
streams, ref1
Channon, Paul, Conservative Transport Secretary 1987, ref1
Chaplin, William, coach operator, ref1, ref2
Chard, Somerset, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Chard and Ilminster News, newspaper ref1, ref2
Charles I, orders execution of Earl of Castlehaven, ref1, ref2
Charles II:
stays in Mere, ref1
flees country, ref1 (footnote)
and Duke of Monmouth, ref1
death, ref1
Charnage Down, Wiltshire, ref1, ref2
Chicklade, Wiltshire, ref1, ref2, ref3
Chilfinch Hanging Wood, ref1
Chippindale, Christopher, historian of Stonehenge, ref1, ref2, ref3
Chubb, Sir Cecil:
buys Stonehenge, ref1
gives Stonehenge to nation, ref1
appeases Druids, ref1
Clairvaux, monastery in north-eastern France, ref1
Clarendon, Earl of, seventeenth-century historian, ref1
Clarkson, Jeremy, presenter of Top Gear:
and automotive dreamworld, ref1
latter-day Mondeo Man, ref1
defender of right to drive, ref1
‘Clouds’, house at East Knoyle, Wiltshire:
masterpiece of late nineteenth century, ref1
destroyed by fire, ref1
rebuilt, ref1
let, ref1
coach travel:
discomfort of, ref1
splendour of, ref1
market towns, ref1
roads, ref1
London-Exeter, ref1
heyday over, ref1
Cobbett, William, journalist and political activist:
Wylye Valley, ref1
Henry Hunt, ref1, ref2
praises stagecoaches, ref1
Cole, the Reverend William, eighteenth-century antiquary, ref1
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, poet, ref1
Concrete Island, novel by J. G. Ballard, ref1
Coniston Old Man, mountain, xv
Coniston Water, Lake District, xiii, xv
Connolly, Cyril, critic, ref1
Cossons, Sir Neil, chairman of English Heritage 2000, ref1
Coxe, the Reverend William, Rector of Stourton, Wiltshire, ref1
Crash, novel by J. G. Ballard, ref1
Crowther, Sir Geoffrey, economist, ref1
Cunnington, Maud, archaeologist, excavated Yarnbury Castle, ref1
Cunnington, William, archaeologist:
appearance ref1, ref2
excavates Bush Barrow, ref1
possible sufferer from acromegaly, ref1
excavates at Stonehenge, ref1
relationship with Sir Richard Colt Hoare, ref1
death, ref1
methods, ref1
Cyr, Donald L., American Stonehenge fantasist, ref1
Daily Express, newspaper:
sued by Lord Cardigan, ref1
bolshy voice, ref1
Daily Mail, newspaper:
Free Festival, xxi
attacks BBC over The Monocled Mutineer, ref1
sued by Lord Cardigan, ref1
bolshy voice, ref1
Rosie Boycott, ref1
cost of petrol, ref1
right to drive, ref1
Daily Mirror, newspaper, ref1
Daily Telegraph, newspaper:
sued by Lord Cardigan, ref1
Boris Johnson, ref1
cost of petrol, ref1
Dance, Sir Charles, backer of Gurney’s steam carriage, ref1
Darling, Alistair, Labour Transport Secretary 2002:
tenure, ref1
Stonehenge, ref1
elevated to Treasury, ref1
decides to widen A358, ref1
Davies, Hugh, road historian, ref1, ref2
Davies, Nick, journalist, ref1
Dawlish Wake, Somerset, ref1
De Courcy-Parry, Charles, alleged killer of Percy Toplis, ref1
Deadman’s Plack, Hampshire:
monument, ref1
inscription, ref1
murder of Aethelwold, ref1
neglected air, ref1
Colonel Iremonger, ref1
Defiance, stagecoach, ref1
Defoe, Daniel, writer:
describes road to Honiton, ref1
Weyhill Fair, ref1
Salisbury Plain shepherds, ref1, ref2
Dennis, Kingsley, sociologist, ref1
Department of the Environment, ref1, ref2
Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, ref1
Department of Transport, ref1
Deptford Inn, Wylye, ref1
Dictionary of National Biography, ref1, ref2
Dillington Park, Ilminster, Somerset, ref1, ref2
Dixon, Samuel Gurney, bacteriologist and amateur poet, ref1
Drake, Sir James, road engineer:
argues for motorways, ref1
admired by Barbara Castle, ref1
Driberg, Tom, Labour MP, ref1 (footnote)
Druidism and Druids:
alleged to have founded Stonehenge, ref1
claim Stonehenge, ref1
curse, ref1
mass invasion, ref1
banner kept aloft, ref1
Du Maurier, Daphne, author of Rebecca, ref1
Dummer, Hampshire, ref1
Durotriges, Celtic tribe, ref1
Durrington, Wiltshire, prehistoric site, ref1, ref2
Dwyer, William ‘Ubique’, psychedelist, ref1
Eagle, HMS, ref1
Eagle, tavern, near Ilminster, Somerset, ref1
Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, ref1
East Anglia, ref1, ref2
East Cholderton, Hampshire, ref1
East Coker, Somerset, ref1
‘East Coker’, one of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, ref1
East Knoyle, Wiltshire:
church, ref1
Doctor Christopher Wren, ref1
Wyndham family, ref1
‘Clouds’, ref1
Edgar, King:
murders Aethelwold, ref1
marries Elfrida, ref1
virtues, vices and urges, ref1
Edwardes, Sir Michael, chairman of British Leyland 1977, ref1
Elfrida, Queen:
bride of Aethelwold, ref1
stimulates Edgar, ref1
repents, drowns, ref1
founds convent at Amesbury, ref1
Eliot, T. S., poet, ref1
Elizabeth I:
menaced by Philip of Spain, ref1
portrait, ref1
Sir Edward Phelips, ref1
enclosure movement, ref1
English Heritage:
milestone, ref1
Stonehenge, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Epping Forest, ref1
Étaples, mutiny at, ref1
Ethandune, Battle of, ref1
Ethelred, King:
son of Elfrida, ref1
candle phobia, ref1
performance, ref1
Evans, Chris, disc jockey, ref1
‘Every Little Helps’, Tesco motto, ref1
Exeter, Devon:
dream of route to, ref1, ref2, ref3
man with business, ref1
time for coach to reach from London, ref1
coaching companies, ref1
railway reaches, ref1
Exeter Telegraph, stagecoach, ref1, ref2
Fairley, John, co-author of The Monocled Mutineer, ref1
Far From The Madding Crowd, novel by Hardy, ref1
Farwell, Mr Justice, ref1
Fat Charlie, mascot of Little Chef:
appearance, ref1
says hello, ref1
changes jacket, ref1
grin, ref1
moronic beam, ref1
annoying face, ref1
gone from Sparkford, ref1
imitator, ref1
Fat Duck, restaurant at Bray, Berkshire, ref1
Fawkes, Guy, ref1
Ferguson, Major Ronald, father of Duchess of York, ref1
Fiennes, Celia, traveller, ref1
Firth, Colin, actor, ref1
Fitzpatrick, Florence, male servant at Fonthill, ref1
Fleming, Ian, thriller writer, ref1
Flitcroft, Henry, architect of Alfred’s Tower, ref1
Foliots, family of Ea
st Knoyle, ref1
Fontevrault Abbey, Anjou, ref1
Fonthill, Wiltshire:
abbey, ref1
fete, ref1
lake, ref1
arch, ref1
disgraceful events, ref1
Salisbury Plain, ref1
Beckford’s tower, ref1
Ford motor cars:
Capri, xviii
Consul, ref1, ref2
Cortina, ref1
Ford UK, ref1
Fosse Way, Roman road:
towards Shepton Mallet, ref1
to Lopen, ref1
Ilchester, ref1, ref2
not straight, ref1
hamstone, ref1
Foster, Sir Christopher, economist, ref1
Foulness, Essex, ref1
Four Quartets, poems by T. S. Eliot, ref1
Freeman, Doctor Edward, historian, ref1
From Trackway to Trunk Road: A History of the A303, booklet by Paul Rowntree, ref1
From Trackways to Motorways: 5000 Years of Highway History, book by Hugh Davies, ref1
Frome, River, ref1
Fuller, the Reverend Nicholas, Rector of Allington, ref1
Fulton, PC Alfred, ref1
Gentleman’s Magazine, ref1
Geoffrey of Monmouth, medieval chronicler, ref1
George III, ref1, ref2
George, The, pub at Mere, Wiltshire, ref1
Geraint, Sir, Arthurian knight, ref1, ref2
Glastonbury, Somerset:
festival, xx
Guinevere taken to, ref1
Tor, ref1
Arthur’s body taken to, ref1
Glyn, Elinor, romantic novelist and mistress of Lord Curzon:
on the Souls, ref1
lives at Montacute, ref1
betrayed, ref1
Gowland, Professor William, archaeologist, ref1
great bustard, bird:
picture, ref1
decline, ref1
attack on rider, ref1
mating rituals, ref1
release on Salisbury Plain, ref1
prey of foxes, ref1
Great Bustard Group, ref1
Great Ridge Wood, Wiltshire, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Great Ridgeway, footpath, ref1, ref2, ref3
Great Shed, Andover:
size, ref1
mystery of, ref1
impermanence of, ref1
Great Wishford, Wiltshire, ref1
Green Ribbon Club, seventeenth-century anti-Catholic political group, ref1
Greene, Harry Plunket, singer and trout fisherman, ref1
Gronow, Captain, nineteenth-century writer of memoirs, ref1
Grovely Wood, Wiltshire, ref1, ref2, ref3
Grundy, Lionel, assistant chief constable of Wiltshire, ref1
Guardian, newspaper, ref1
Guinevere, Queen:
dies in Amesbury, ref1, ref2
taken to Glastonbury, ref1
Gurney, Sir Goldsworthy, inventor of the steam carriage, ref1
Ham (Hamdon) Hill, Somerset:
quarry, ref1, ref2, ref3
neolithic site, ref1
country park, ref1