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The A303

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by Tom Fort


  stone circle, ref1

  views from, ref1

  Hammond, Philip, Conservative Transport Secretary 2010, ref1

  Hampshire Chronicle, newspaper, ref1

  Hampshire Down, breed of sheep, ref1

  Hampshire Observer, newspaper, ref1

  Hanning, William:

  owner of Dillington, Ilminster, ref1

  sponsor of New Direct Road, ref1

  backer of Gurney steam coach, ref1

  death, ref1

  Hardy, Thomas, novelist:

  Weyhill Fair, ref1

  markets Wessex, ref1

  rural world destroyed, ref1

  Harewood Forest, Hampshire, ref1, ref2

  Harris, Annie, proprietor of Annie’s Tea Bar, ref1

  Harris, Tom, Labour MP and junior transport minister, ref1

  Harrow Way, footpath:

  route, ref1

  Weyhill, ref1

  Whitesheet Hill, ref1

  intersection with Great Ridgeway, ref1

  Hawker, Colonel Peter, nineteenth-century Hampshire sportsman, ref1

  Health Protection Agency, ref1

  Heath, Sir Edward, Conservative politician, ref1, ref2, ref3

  hedges, ref1

  Henry II, ref1, ref2

  Henry VIII, ref1, ref2

  Herbert, George Augustus, 11th Earl of Pembroke, ref1

  Herbert, Sir William, 1st Earl of Pembroke, ref1

  Heritage Lottery Fund, ref1

  Herrup, Cynthia, author of A House in Gross Disorder, ref1, ref2

  Hicks-Beach, Sir Michael, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1895–1902, ref1

  Highways Agency:

  silent on origin of A303, ref1

  care for deer, ref1

  apparent lack of interest in other animals, ref1

  Thruxton, ref1

  policy on signage, ref1

  new route for A303 through Blackdown Hills, ref1

  removes loos, ref1

  silent on classification of A303 to Honiton

  Hillman Minx, motor car, xvii, ref1, ref2

  Hoare, Henry, banker:

  creates Stourhead, ref1

  commissions Alfred’s Tower, ref1

  much satisfied by Tower, ref1

  Hoare, Sir Richard Colt, owner of Stourhead and author of Ancient History of North and South Wiltshire:

  melancholic temperament, ref1

  becomes colleague of William Cunnington, ref1

  dedicates book to Cunnington, ref1

  verdict on Stonehenge, ref1

  later tributes to, ref1

  Yarnbury Castle, ref1

  horror at Fonthill scandal, ref1

  Hodge, Margaret, Labour Minister for Culture and Tourism, ref1

  Honiton, Devon, xvi, ref1, ref2

  Honiton and Ilminster Turnpike Trust, ref1

  Hooker, the Reverend Richard, author of The Laws of Ecclesiastical Politie and Rector of Boscombe, ref1

  Hudson, W. H., writer and naturalist:

  listens for grasshoppers at Deadman’s Plack, ref1

  detestation of Doctor Freeman, ref1

  describes chalkland turf, ref1

  hatred of military on Salisbury Plain, ref1

  A Shepherd’s Life, ref1

  villages of the Wylye Valley, ref1

  Humber Super Snipe, motor car, ref1

  Hunt, ‘Gaffer’, Stonehenge guide, ref1

  Hunt, Henry ‘Orator’, political agitator:

  appearance, ref1

  career as firebrand, ref1

  at Peterloo Massacre, ref1

  inmate of Ilchester Goal, ref1

  death, ref1

  Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire, ref1

  Hussey, Marmaduke, chairman of the BBC, ref1

  Hutton, Edward, writer of guide books:

  on the villages of the Bourne valley, Wiltshire, ref1

  loveliness of Amesbury, ref1

  damns Duke of Somerset, ref1

  Wylye Valley, ref1

  rude about Ilchester, ref1

  beauty of Montacute, ref1

  Ilminster Church, ref1

  Huxley, Aldous, writer and car lover, ref1

  Icknield Way, ref1, ref2

  Idmiston, Wiltshire, ref1

  Ilchester, Somerset:

  bypass, ref1

  described by John Leland, ref1

  church, ref1

  market cross, ref1

  Roman remains, ref1

  river, ref1

  eel fair, ref1

  gaol, ref1

  Ilminster, Somerset:

  bypass, ref1, ref2

  Monmouth’s rebellion, ref1

  Charles Speke’s execution, ref1

  Tesco store, ref1

  tennis and bowling club, ref1

  Warehouse Theatre, ref1

  church, ref1

  Ilminster Turnpike Trust, ref1, ref2

  In Place of Strife, Harold Wilson’s attempt to curb trade unions, ref1

  International Times, newspaper, ref1

  Iremonger, Colonel William, commissions Deadman’s Plack, ref1

  Ivel, River, ref1, ref2

  James I, ref1, ref2

  James II:

  Rye House plot against, ref1

  denounced as Popish usurper, ref1

  revenge against rebels, ref1

  Jeffreys, Judge George, in charge of Bloody Assizes, ref1

  Jenkins, Simon, writer on architecture, ref1

  Jeremiah, book of the Prophet, ref1

  Joad, C. E. M., philosopher and pundit, ref1

  Johnson, Boris, Mayor of London:

  on the joys of motoring and the interference of the state therein, ref1

  problems of congestion, ref1

  cycling, ref1

  employs Rosie Boycott, ref1

  Johnson, Paul, journalist and commentator, ref1

  Jones, Inigo, architect, ref1

  Joseph’s tea bar, Winterbourne Stoke, Wiltshire, ref1

  Judd, William, Stonehenge photographer, ref1

  Kelly, Ruth, Labour Transport Secretary 2007, ref1, ref2

  Kennedy, President John F., lover of musical Camelot, ref1

  Kerridge, Professor Eric, historian of agriculture, ref1

  Kerton-Johnson, the Reverend Peter, Vicar of Stoke-sub-Hamdon, ref1

  Kimpton, Hampshire, ref1

  Kimpton Down racing stables, ref1

  King, Lord, chairman of British Airways, ref1

  King Alfred’s Tower, ref1

  Kingsettle Hill, ref1

  Kula Shaker, rock band, xxi

  Ladyman, Doctor Stephen, Labour Transport Minister 2005, ref1

  Lake District, xiii-xiv

  Landscape with Machines, autobiography of L. T. C. Rolt, ref1

  Langport, Somerset, ref1

  Larkhill military camp, Wiltshire:

  artillery range, ref1

  and Stonehenge, ref1

  proposed visitor centre, ref1

  Royal Flying Corps, ref1

  Lawrence, T. E., ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, ref1

  Leland, John, antiquary:

  on Cadbury Castle, ref1

  on Ilchester, ref1

  Lewis, Wyndham, painter and novelist, friend and enemy of ‘Whips’ Wyndham, ref1

  Limington, Somerset, ref1

  Little Chef, chain of roadside diners:

  and Fat Charlie, ref1, ref2

  menus, ref1

  Ian Pegler as chief executive, ref1

  ‘Today’s Specials’, ref1

  change, ref1

  same as all other Little Chefs, ref1

  abandoned at Sparkford, ref1

  legal action against Newcott Diner, ref1

  London-Exeter road, ref1, ref2

  London-Penzance Trunk Road, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Longbarrow Crossroads, Wiltshire, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Longbridge, Birmingham, British Leyland car plant, ref1, ref2

  Longparish, Hampshire, ref1

  Lopen, Somerset:

&n
bsp; Wolsey misbehaves at, ref1

  Fosse Way to, ref1

  Louveciennes, near Paris, home of Madame du Barry, ref1 (footnote)

  Lyte, Henry, owner of Lytes Cary, ref1

  Lytes Cary, Somerset:

  building of, ref1

  stone, ref1

  Pevsner’s verdict, ref1

  McAdam, John Loudon, road engineer:

  develops new method of building roads, ref1

  appointed General Surveyor of Roads, ref1

  principles seized on by turnpike trusts, ref1

  McGann, Paul, actor in The Monocled Mutineer, ref1

  MacGregor, John, Conservative Transport Secretary 1992, ref1

  MacKenzie, W. A., motoring correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, ref1, ref2

  Macmillan, Harold, Conservative Prime Minister, ref1

  Maggs Brothers, engineering company at Bourton, Dorset, ref1

  Major, John, Conservative Prime Minister, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Marples, Ernest, Conservative Minister of Transport, 1959:

  succeeds Harold Watkinson, ref1

  opens M1, ref1

  ‘Marples Must Go’ campaign, ref1

  longest-serving transport minister, ref1, ref2, ref3

  commissions study on traffic in towns, ref1

  spending on roads, ref1

  Mrs Thatcher, ref1

  Marsh, Richard, Labour Transport Minister 1968:

  smooth televisual personality, ref1

  opens Basingstoke northern bypass, ref1

  sacked by Harold Wilson, ref1

  Marshall, Howard, journalist and broadcaster, ref1

  Mawhinney, Doctor Brian, Conservative Transport Secretary 1994:

  above run-of-the-mill, ref1

  tackles vehicle emissions, ref1

  rejects Thatcher’s ‘great car economy’, ref1

  approves Newbury bypass, ref1

  Mayor of Casterbridge, The, novel by Thomas Hardy, ref1

  Mercia, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Mere, Wiltshire:

  and Rebecca, ref1

  bypass, ref1, ref2

  development of A303, ref1

  last bastion of chalk, ref1

  Charles I dines in the ‘George’, ref1

  A303 leaves Wiltshire, ref1

  MGB-GT, sports car, ref1

  Micheldever, Hampshire:

  railway station, ref1

  turn onto A303, ref1

  hedge near, ref1

  Mills, William, inventor of Mills bomb, ref1

  Milne, Alasdair, Director-General of BBC 1982, ref1

  Milton, John, poet, ref1

  Mineworkers, National Union of, ref1

  Mini, small car designed by Sir Alec Issigonis, xix

  Ministry of Transport:

  programme for opening of Andover bypass, ref1

  takes over responsibility for motorways and trunks roads, ref1

  advice on route west, ref1

  swallowed by Department of Environment, ref1

  Dr Brian Mawhinney, ref1

  Ministry of Works:

  takes control of Stonehenge, ref1

  allows Druids to bury dead at Stonehenge, ref1

  Mixed Blessing, book by Professor Colin Buchanan, ref1

  Monarch’s Way, footpath, ref1

  Mondeo Man, ref1, ref2

  Monmouth, Duke of:

  eldest bastard of Charles II, ref1

  reception in West Country, ref1

  leads rebellion, ref1

  defeat and execution, ref1

  Monocled Mutineer, The, book by William Allison and John Fairley:

  story of Percy Toplis, ref1

  mutiny at Étaples, ref1

  central premise wrong, ref1

  Monocled Mutineer, The, television drama by Alan Bleasdale:

  commissioned by BBC, ref1

  condemned, ref1

  loving and convincing drama, ref1

  nostalgia, ref1

  Montacute House, Somerset:

  texture and beauty, ref1

  rented by Lord Curzon, ref1

  refurbished by Elinor Glyn, ref1

  Montagu, Lord (Edward), of Beaulieu, chairman of English Heritage, ref1, ref2

  Montagu, Lord (John), of Beaulieu, ref1

  Monxton, Hampshire:

  rural character, ref1

  church, ref1

  eccentric rector, ref1

  algebraic calculations, ref1

  woman accused of being whore, ref1

  Moore, Tom, Irish poet, ref1

  Moran, Joe, cultural commentator and author of On Roads:

  Harold Watkinson, ref1

  big sheds, ref1

  wildlife on motorways, ref1

  road-building under Blair government, ref1

  road numbering, ref1

  Morris motor cars:

  Minor, ref1

  Oxford, ref1, ref2

  Traveller, xiii, ref1

  1100, ref1, ref2

  1300, ref1

  Morris, William, designer and socialist, ref1

  Motoring:

  in 1920s, ref1

  1930s, ref1

  1950s, ref1, ref2

  1960s, ref1

  1970s, ref1

  ‘First Age of, ref1

  Motoring Towards 2050, study of trends organised by RAC, ref1, ref2

  Motorways, landscaping of, ref1

  Mount Badon, Battle of, ref1

  National Road Book, ref1

  National Trust:

  access to Stonehenge, ref1

  farming around Stonehenge, ref1

  Montacute, ref1

  campaigns against new road through Blackdown Hills, ref1

  Needham, Professor Stuart, archaeologist, on Bush Barrow, ref1

  ‘New Direct Road’, London to Exeter, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Newbury bypass, ref1

  Newcott, Devon, ref1

  Newton, Isaac, mathematician, ref1

  Newton Tony, Wiltshire:

  birthplace of Celia Fiennes, ref1

  home of William Benson, ref1

  Nissan, Japanese car maker, ref1

  Normanton Down, Wiltshire:

  possible route for A303, ref1

  Druids, ref1

  view of Stonehenge, ref1

  Bush Barrow, ref1

  barrows, ref1

  North, Lord, Prime Minister 1770, ref1

  North Cadbury, Somerset, ref1

  Northumbria, ref1, ref2

  Noyes, Ella, author of Salisbury Plain, ref1

  Observer, newspaper, ref1

  Ogilby, John, seventeenth-century cartographer, ref1

  oil crisis, 1973, ref1, ref2

  Old Road, The, by Hilaire Belloc, ref1

  Old Sarum (Roman Sorviodunum), ref1, ref2

  OPEC oil exporting countries, ref1

  Osgood, Richard, Wiltshire farmer, ref1

  Otter, River, ref1

  Paradise Lost, poem by Milton, translated into Latin, ref1

  Parker, Colonel Graham, planner of proposed route for A303, ref1

  Parker, John and Stephen, diggers, ref1, ref2

  Parrett, River:

  eels in, ref1

  children drowned, ref1

  Parsonage Down, Wiltshire, ref1

  Paulet, Sir Amyas, Sheriff of Dorset and Somerset, ref1

  Pegler, Ian, one-time chief executive of Little Chef, ref1

  Pendragon, King Arthur (John Rothwell), Druid, ref1, ref2

  Penrith Observer, newspaper, on Percy Toplis, ref1

  Peterloo Massacre, ref1

  Petherton Bridge, poem, ref1

  Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus, architectural writer, on Lytes Cary, ref1

  Peyton, John, Conservative Transport Minister 1971, ref1

  Phelips, Sir Edward, Speaker of the House of Commons and builder of Montacute, ref1

  Philip II of Spain, ref1

  Phillips, Captain Mark, former husband of Princess Anne, ref1

  Piddle, River, ref1

  Piers Plowman, epic fourteent
h-century poem, ref1

  Piggott, Professor Stuart, archaeologist, expert on Stonehenge, ref1

  Pigs, habits of, ref1

  Pilhill Brook, ref1

  Pinto, Vivian de Solo, literary critic, ref1

  Pitt-Rivers, General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox, archaeologist, ref1

  Plymouth and Devonport Telegraph, newspaper, ref1

  Poole, Jack, colonial administrator in Sudan, ref1

  Popham, Hampshire:

  Little Chef, ref1

  Beacons, ref1, ref2

  chalk, ref1

  dual carriageway to Amesbury, ref1

  A30, ref1

  Porton Down, Wiltshire, ref1, ref2

  Potter, Dennis, dramatist, ref1

  Practical Essay on the Scientific Repair and Preservation of Roads, by John Loudon McAdam, ref1

  Pratchett, Sir Terry, novelist, association with Wincanton, ref1

  Prescott, John, Labour politician:

  energy and talents, ref1

  Andrew Adonis, ref1

  Ten Year Transport Plan, ref1

  spouts jargon, ref1

  Present State of Road-making, The, by John Loudon McAdam, ref1

  Pughe, William Owen, Welsh philologist and fantasist, ref1, ref2

  Quarley Hill, Hampshire, hillfort and Roman camp, ref1, ref2. ref3

  Queensbury, 3rd Duke of, owner of Amesbury Abbey, rebuilds Amesbury Bridge, ref1

  Queensbury, 4th Duke of, fails to shifts debts, ref1

  Queen Camel, Somerset, ref1

  Quennell, Peter, literary critic, ref1 (footnote)

  Quicksilver, stagecoach, ref1

  Rawle, Sid, festival organiser:

  death, ref1

  helps stage Windsor Free Festival, ref1

  organises ‘love-in’ opposite Slough Town Hall, ref1

  imprisoned, ref1

  performs at Stonehenge, ref1

  keeps away from Battle of Beanfield, ref1

  Rebecca, novel by Daphne du Maurier, ref1

  Reed, Grace, gathers wood in Grovely, ref1

  Reform Bill of 1831, ref1

  Reid, George Watson MacGregor, Druid:

  first visit to Stonehenge, ref1

  curses Sir Edmond Antrobus, ref1

  plans replica Stonehenge, ref1

  Reid, Robert MacGregor, Druid and son of above, ref1

  Ribena, blackcurrant cordial, ref1

  Ridley, Nicholas, Conservative Transport Secretary 1983, ref1

  Rifkind, Sir Malcolm, Conservative Transport Secretary 1990, ref1

  Roads:

  M1, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  M15, ref1

  M25, xx, ref1, ref2, ref3

  M4, xx, ref1, ref2, ref3

  M5, xx, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  M6, ref1, ref2

  A1, xvii, ref1; A10, ref2

  A30, xvii, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  A303, passim

  A338, ref1

  A34, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  A344, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; A350, ref7, ref8, ref9

 

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