Product Description

From Hellgill to Bridge End is a comparative study of the effects of local, regional and national change on nine parishes in the Upper Eden Valley in north Westmorland during the Victorian years. From Hellgill to Bridge End is a comparative study of the effects of local, regional and national change on nine parishes in the Upper Eden Valley in north Westmorland during the Victorian years. It is based on a study of the entire population of the parishes of Appleby, Brough and Kirkby Stephen, and six surrounding parishes over six censuses from 1841 plus Marriage and Burial Registers. The analysis of a database of 65,000 records from these sources has given a rare, if not unique insight into a series of rural parishes and has allowed the exploration of themes of continuity and change within and between parishes, setting them in context within regional and national changes during the Victorian years. The book explores culture and social life including religion, education and leisure, transport, education, the local economy, agriculture and migration. Very little work exists about this part of Cumbria and such detailed analysis of a series of parishes in any region is rare and important.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1417650 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 392 pages

Review
"Packed with details of local life and written in a style which bowls along... the reader can pick up the book, dip in, and be immediately transported back into the 1800s... Attractive to anyone with roots in North Westmorland" The Cumberland and Westmorland Herald "A work of considerable human interest as the larger, abstract picture is built on the details of everday lives and incidents" The Cumberland Times"

About the Author
Margaret Shepherd is a historical geographer who has spent many years in the Eden Valley. She was born and educated in Penrith in Cumberland, later in Edinburgh. After teaching in Carlisle she married and moved to Church Brough in the Upper Eden Valley. She graduated with honours from the Open University in 1980. Since 1985 Margaret Shepherd has been a member of Wolfson College, Cambridge and graduated with 1st Class Honours in Geography in 1987 followed by a Ph.D. in 1992. She was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in Wolfson College in 1993 but then became Tutor and Fellow for seven years before resuming the Research Fellowship in 2001.