The history, topography and directory of Warwickshire; inclusive of some portions of the ancient histories of Rous, Camden, Speed, and Dugdale, with curious memoirs of the lives of these early writers : a description of the present state of the county with its modern divisions and subdivisions, and their population and valuation; a directory of every town and considerable village in the county; a gazetteer of all the towns, villages, parishes and hamlets, with their distances from the principal market or post towns, and from London; and an itinerary of the direct and cross roads, with a list of the noblemen and gentlemen's seats, illustrated with characteristic etchings and a map of the county.
- West, William, 1770-1854.
- Date:
- 1830
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history, topography and directory of Warwickshire; inclusive of some portions of the ancient histories of Rous, Camden, Speed, and Dugdale, with curious memoirs of the lives of these early writers : a description of the present state of the county with its modern divisions and subdivisions, and their population and valuation; a directory of every town and considerable village in the county; a gazetteer of all the towns, villages, parishes and hamlets, with their distances from the principal market or post towns, and from London; and an itinerary of the direct and cross roads, with a list of the noblemen and gentlemen's seats, illustrated with characteristic etchings and a map of the county. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
![The present volume, therefore, contains all that Camden, the father of English history, as he has been styled, lias written on this county, in his Britannia; and all that Speed, who followed him, exhibited in his Theatre of Great Britain, upon the same subject. From the laborious undertaking of Sir William Dugdale, an explanatory extract from his preface, and his general outline of the ancient divisions of the hundreds, are given, with the lives of those eminent writers. Birmingham, which in early times, comparatively formed but an inferior, now presents the most important, feature in the county. This town, from its central situation, its commercial consequence, and its unrivalled progress in the mechanic arts, has deservedly occupied much of the following pages. In arranging and describing the twenty divisions of the county, according to the last report presented to the Board of Agriculture] by Mr. Murray, it will be observed that all the parishes, hamlets, and townships, as well as the rectories, vicarages, and chapelries] and their patrons, have been noticed and explained. e names of towns, &c. with their respective situations and dis- tances from each other, and from London, with the number of inha, Jitan(N paroclnal rates, annual valuations, and the proportions paid ie county rate by each parish, at a particular period, is presented w erevci it could be ascertained, throughout each division. The storical desciiptions which follow the foregoing numerous objects, aie necessarily compressed; but it is presumed that few peculiar or interesting subjects have been omitted. n the itinerary of the principal direct, and cross roads, the dis- out^witlT 7r!f: and obJects wort,)y of observation are pointed work 1 7 Ut Gr reference to various pages in the body of the , WhlCh 1S acconoPanied with a modern map of the county. ham!7!?irgerdl?7d ^7 ^ C°Pi°US reft>renCe *° ^ t<>WnS’ gazetteer. ’ S presenfs the advantages of a county fhe records of the smaller as well as the larger, divisions of the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28408111_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
