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Revolutionary Times Atlas of Warwickshire & Worcestershire

ISBN - 9781844918119 - Hardcover - A4 (297 mm x 210 mm)
This book includes all the borough surveys, town plans and survey reports for Warwickshire and Worcestershire for those boroughs eligible in 1832 to elect one member or more to Parliament. The exquisitely reproduced surveys from the antique originals enable the reader to view the lay of the land encompassing many townships, villages and hamlets across the counties of Warwickshire and Worcestershire as they were almost 200 years ago. The borough surveys detail named houses, halls, churches, farms, mills, woods and heaths, lakes and pools, many of which have now disappeared. The book is informative, describing the years leading to the passing of the 1832 Reform Act, the time when political reform pulled Britain back from the brink of revolution and civil war

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Old Map of Birmingham Surveyed in 1731 by William Westley

Attractive republication in full colour of the first printed map of Birmingham, The Plan of Birmingham, surveyed by William Westley in 1731, is dedicated to the two Members of Parliament for Warwickshire, the Honourable Edward Digby and William Peyto Esquire. It shows the town in the early years of George II's reign with a population of over fifteen thousand, with two churches, a water mill and a manor house surrounded by a moat. Parts of the built-up area have gardens and orchards, even near the centre, and the town is closely surrounded by fields. The work was carried out for inclusion in "Birmingham A History in Maps", published in 2009

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The New Edinburgh Academy , 1831

This is an engraving published in 1831 of the "The New Edinburgh Academy" that was opened in 1824, the building, on Henderson Row in the city's New Town, is now part of the Independent Senior School that will be celebrating its bi-centenary in 2024. This is a reproduction of an original placed in surround border that holds the title of the work along with the year

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