Interested in history? Then this book on the ancient manor and village of Penkhull will be a must for your bookshelf. In contains more than 300,000 words, 496 pictures, maps and diagrams. This is a proper history book to read not a book of a few words of history and photos. All original research.
This is a book for reading, not a book just of pictures with a few captions. It is a book packed with information about the area commencing from the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Roman occupation, the Bronze Age, the Middle Ages, the industrial revolution right up to the present-day containing information researched over the last twenty years and two years in the making. The early invaders into this area have left evidence dating from the middle Neolithic period in the form of a flint arrowhead, bronze-age incense cup and a stone axe head.
It was from a period of nearly 5,000 years ago that the village of Penkhull was created, probable because of its elevated and defensive situation standing above the River Trent and the Lyme Brook. Penkhull was a Royal Manor from the time of William the Conqueror to at least 1308, the time of Edwards II before it became absorbed into the Royal Manor of Newcastle-under-Lyme. The men of Penkhull provided guard at the castle as a form of rental.
The book is Hard Back, A 4 size containing 5,000 years of history, its unique as no other book contains so much original research material.
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