Thomas Codrington (1829 in

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– 1918) was a British engineer and antiquarian of the late

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. With a career background as an Inspector for local government, he published several known works. First was ''Report on the Destruction of Town Refuse'', published by

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in 1888. This was only a short pamphlet of 48 pages, including illustrations of furnaces in use at the time. Codrington went on to write the slightly more substantial 172 page work ''The Maintenance of Macadamised Roads'' in 1879, published by E. & F.N. Spon. For the Roads Improvement Association, Codrington wrote ''The Roads Improvement Association - Its Teaching Confirmed'';Reid, p.131. he had acted for the RIA in a successful court action in 1885 regarding the state of the roads in

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.Reid, pp.129-130. However, by far Codrington's most famous work was also one of his last. ''

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'', published originally in 1903, was the first attempt by any author to catalogue fully the evident remains of the

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transport network in the

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. Several further editions were subsequently published, and indeed reprinted. The last of these was a reprint of the 3rd edition in 1928.

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"Brief biography of Codrington"
should also be some original scans of his text soon. 1829 births 1918 deaths English civil engineers People from Wroughton {{UK-engineer-stub