An Atlas and Index of the Tithe Files of Mid-Nineteenth-Century England and Wales Contributor(s): Kain, Roger J. P. (Author), Fry, Rodney E. J., Holt, Harriet M. E. |
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ISBN: 0521071542 ISBN-13: 9780521071543 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: July 2011 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Western Europe - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Reference | Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (see Also Travel - Maps & Road Atlases) |
Dewey: 912.133 |
Physical Information: 1.36" H x 8.25" W x 11" L (3.31 lbs) 680 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
Features: Maps |
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Publisher 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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