An Atlas and Index of the Tithe Files of Mid-Nineteenth-Century England and Wales
1st Edition
Published on 20. March 2012
978-1-139-11820-0 (ISBN)
Description
The tithe surveys of the early Victorian Age, after the great Domesday Book of the eleventh century, represent the most detailed and important national inventory to be taken before our own times. This 1986 book reconstructs elements of mid-nineteenth-century rural landscapes and farming systems by analysing the wealth of quantitative data which these tithe surveys contain, communicated cartographically by a set of 582 computer-generated maps, and statistically by a series of tables. The book also reveals the richness and variety of written evidence which the 14,829 parish tithe files (P.R.O. Class IR 18) contain, by means of analytical place and subject indexes for each English and Welsh county (some 200,000 entries in all) and by essays in which themes commonly encountered in the tithe file papers of each county are described. These sections of the book will be an essential tool for historians and historical geographers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Cambridge University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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File size
65,08 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-139-11820-0 (9781139118200)
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08/1986
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Content
Introduction; Eastern counties; Southern counties; South-Western counties; Western counties; North-Western counties; Northern counties; Midland counties; Wales; England and Wales; Place index; Subject index; Epilogue.
