Black's Handy Atlas of England & Wales

Population, rainfall and railways are mapped alongside the counties in these maps from Black's Handy Atlas of England & ...

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Population, rainfall and railways are mapped alongside the counties in these maps from Black's Handy Atlas of England & Wales, edited by John Bartholomew and published by Adam & Charles Black in 1892. A county sheet such as Herefordshire gives a concentrated local view, railway sheets follow transport across county boundaries, and population mapping based on the 1891 census and rainfall maps show patterns that political divisions cannot. The atlas belongs to the years when railways formed the national transport network and statistical geography was becoming a regular part of atlas publishing.

Population, rainfall and railways are mapped alongside the counties in these maps from Black's Handy Atlas of England & Wales, edited by John Bartholomew and published by Adam & Charles Black in 1892. A county sheet such as Herefordshire gives a concentrated local view, railway sheets follow transport across county boundaries, and population mapping based on the 1891 census and rainfall maps show patterns that political divisions cannot. The atlas belongs to the years when railways formed the national transport network and statistical geography was becoming a regular part of atlas publishing.

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