National Gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland

County maps and sheets of railways and canals supported the entries of a Victorian topographical dictionary, the National Ga...

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County maps and sheets of railways and canals supported the entries of a Victorian topographical dictionary, the National Gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland, published by Virtue & Co. in 1870 and edited by N. E. S. A. Hamilton. Huntingdonshire, Dorset, Durham and Rutland appear as individual counties, while broader sheets show the railways and inland navigation of England and Wales at a time when the network was fully mature.

County maps and sheets of railways and canals supported the entries of a Victorian topographical dictionary, the National Gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland, published by Virtue & Co. in 1870 and edited by N. E. S. A. Hamilton. Huntingdonshire, Dorset, Durham and Rutland appear as individual counties, while broader sheets show the railways and inland navigation of England and Wales at a time when the network was fully mature.