The 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.
- ISBN10 1902806271
- ISBN13 9781902806273
- Publish Date 15 December 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 April 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint University of Hertfordshire Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English