Letts's Popular County Atlas

Post towns, market days and railway connections make Letts's Popular County Atlas a practical portrait of late Victorian Eng...

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Post towns, market days and railway connections make Letts's Popular County Atlas a practical portrait of late Victorian England and Wales. Letts, Son & Co. published it in London in 1884, and its county sheets, among them Essex, Durham, Bedfordshire, Cheshire and Leicestershire, set each town within its roads, railways and administrative divisions for readers planning journeys or looking for local centres of trade. A general key map relates the separate sheets to the railway network, and the counties appear as they were before the local-government changes of the twentieth century.

Post towns, market days and railway connections make Letts's Popular County Atlas a practical portrait of late Victorian England and Wales. Letts, Son & Co. published it in London in 1884, and its county sheets, among them Essex, Durham, Bedfordshire, Cheshire and Leicestershire, set each town within its roads, railways and administrative divisions for readers planning journeys or looking for local centres of trade. A general key map relates the separate sheets to the railway network, and the counties appear as they were before the local-government changes of the twentieth century.