Continuity and Change

Impact of Railways on the Human and Physical Environment in Victorian England and Wales

 

Cultural Landscape  

Social Landscape  

Economic Landscape  

Physical Landscape

Utility vs. Preservation (Adam Smith vs. the Wordsworths)

 

 

 

 

Rural Agrarian Lowlands

 

 

 

 

Rural Agrarian Uplands

 

 

 

 

Population Change: natural increase and migration

 

 

 

 

Leisure and Tourism

 

 

 

 

Urbanization:  feeding the cities (meat and milk)

 

 

 

 

 

Urbanisation: concentration vs. diffusion

 

 

 

 

Regions : The Lakes District

 

 

 

 

Regions: The Coal Fields of the Northeast

 

 

 

 

Regions: Manchester and the Northwest

 

 

 

 

Regions: The Coal Fields of Southern Wales

 

 

 

 

Regions: Birmingham and the Industrial Midlands

 

 

 

 

Regions: Dorset and the Agrarian Southwest: Thomas Hardy Country

 

 

 

 

Regions: Norfolk and the Fens