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Paperback edition of Margaret Shepherd's masterly survey of life in rural Cumbria in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Synopsis
This 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 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. Migration is an important theme and includes in-, intra- and out-migration. Destinations of out-migrants have been identified and analysed. The book explores culture and social life including religion, education and leisure, transport, education, the local economy, agriculture and migration. In each topic introductory sections cover the wider Cumbrian region and, although it is a study of a local area, the whole work is set firmly in this context. Differences and similarities are clear even within such a small geographical area and emphasise the problems that can arise if typicality is assumed from a single parish or community study. 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.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #2114727 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-25
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Synopsis
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.

About the Author
Margaret Shepherd is a Fellow of Wolfson COllege, Cambridge and is an historical geographer. She was born in Penrith in Cumberland and lived in Church Brough in the Upper Eden Valley.