A Town Called Wallingford - Peter Adamson

A town with stories to tell…
Stories of Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror … but also of state-of-the-art enterprise and Europe’s biggest tsunami simulator.

Stories of the blacksmith’s son who rose to become the greatest mathematician of the age … and of the small-town lawyer who became one of the most influential figures ever born in these islands.
Stories of thousand-year-old Saxon defences … and of the great coffee shop invasion of our town centres.
 
Stories of a great castle that gave England the Plantagenets and the Tudors … and of a heroic act that averted a twentieth-century disaster.
 
Stories of four sisters who overcame Victorian prejudice to be acclaimed as Royal Academy artists … and of why Wallingford’s most famous resident and the world’s best-selling novelist is scorned by literary critics.
 
Plus … the first in-depth investigation into an extraordinary rumour that has lingered on in the town for the last two hundred years.
 
(A Town Called Wallingford is a follow up to Landmark in Time: the World of the Wittenham Clumps)