Thomas Codrington

For the English Roman Catholic theologian, see Thomas Codrington (priest).

Thomas Codrington
Born	1829 Wroughton, Wiltshire
Died	1918
Occupation	Engineer
Engineering career
Discipline	Civil engineering
Institutions	Institution of Civil Engineers

Thomas Codrington (1829 in Wroughton, Wiltshire – 1918) was a British engineer and antiquarian of the late Victorian era. 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 Her Majesty's Stationery Office 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; he had acted for the RIA in a successful court action in 1885 regarding the state of the roads in Halesowen.

However, by far Codrington's most famous work was also one of his last. Roman Roads in Britain, published originally in 1903, was the first attempt by any author to catalogue fully the evident remains of the Roman transport network in the United Kingdom. Several further editions were subsequently published, and indeed reprinted. The last of these was a reprint of the 3rd edition in 1928.

References

• Reid, Carlton (2014). Roads Were Not Built For Cars. Newcastle: Red Kite Prayer/Front Page Creations. ISBN 9780993005701.

External links

• Works by or about Thomas Codrington at Wikisource
• Codrington, Thomas (1918), Roman Roads in Britain (Third ed.), London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (published 1919)
• "Brief biography of Codrington", should also be some original scans of his text soon.