Bradshaw's Handbook

Collector's item. A landmark in the history of the tour guide. A snapshot of Britain in the 1860s. Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile.
Produced as the British Railway network was reaching its zenith, and as tourism by rail became a serious pastime for the better off, it was the first national tourist guide. This edition is a reproduction in hardback and fascinatingly enough for us, it features both Pickering and Grosmont! However, in a strange twist of errors the author appears to have mixed the description for those particular two places up! Still a captivating read.