James Purkiss

Welcome my fledgling webpages. It's not big and it's not clever - not yet, anyway.

Halcrow Group, my current employer
Reclaiming our Rural Highways Information on the research paper I authored for the Dorset AONB Partnership
Jurassic Coast Transport Infrastructure Gap Analysis Study (pdf) The report of the study I co-authored and managed in 2009
Rural roads seminar paper I gave at the ICE in 2005
Wikipedia Fingerposts article which I have written significant parts of
PPG13 edition copmparison table, added to Institute of Highway Engineers' online knowledge base and used in committee papers in Dorset & Reading

My The Role of Rural Railways - the subject of my Master's dissertation at Oxford Brookes University in 2003. Subsequently used in Dorset County Structure Plan background papers.
My South Winterborne Valley local history research, part of the Dorset OPC project
Fingerposts Small website I created on the subject of traditional direction signs in England & Wales