{"product_id":"discover-medieval-sandwich-book-helen-clarke-9781842174760","title":"Discover Medieval Sandwich","description":"Sandwich today is a quiet Kentish town on the banks of the  river Stour where small pleasure craft tie up at The Quay. It is  hard to imagine that in medieval times there was a  wide expanse  of water, Sandwich Haven, which provided a calm anchorage for  every sort of vessel from Anglo-Saxon longships preparing to take  on Viking invaders to fleets of Venetian galleys laden with  exotic cargoes. Nor does Sandwich now stand at the entrance to a  main waterway joining the English Channel to the Thames. It is  now a peaceful town beside a lazy river.  This book describes what happened to medieval Sandwich over the  centuries. We see how it grew from nothing more than a landmark  for Anglo-Saxon seafarers to a Norman market town with 2,000  inhabitants. But then, from a prosperous trading centre where  ships of all European nations anchored in The Haven it became a  landlocked town with no contacts with the sea. The present town  is a beautifully preserved example of a small medieval town,  probably the most complete in England. Its houses are its chief  glory and many of them are illustrated here. Though the town can  be seen as the hero of this book, the people of Sandwich are  there too; some serve as mayors and members of parliament, others  brew beer and own bowling alleys. All have left their mark.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49575912309009,"sku":"GOR008009887","price":4.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50777373835537,"sku":"GOR014068268","price":11.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1842174762.jpg?v=1751249316","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/discover-medieval-sandwich-book-helen-clarke-9781842174760","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}