MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Industrial Map of the British Isles . . . Frontispiece 

 Sir Robert Peel (Phot. Emery Walker) . . . .3 



A page of Domesday Book ...... 6 



Open fields and balks at Clothall, Herts 8 



Lavenham Church, Suffolk (Phot. G. S. Cousins, Bury St 



Edmunds) 14 



Oxen ploughing at Windrush, Glos. (Phot. Taunt, Oxford) 15 



A Cotswold Homestead (Phot. Taunt, Oxford) ... 18 

 An old farmhouse near Wheathampstead, Herts. (Phot. The 



Homeland Association) . . . . . . . 21 



Rainfall Map of the British Isles (after Mill) ... 25 



Flower farming, Scilly Isles (Phot. Preston, Penzance) . 30 



Gathering the strawberry crop, Histon, Cambridgeshire . 32 



Epping Forest. Typical Forest Scenery .... 33 



Red Devon cow 36 



Exmoor ponies (Phot. Sports and General Press Agency Ltd.) 39 



The Agricultural college, Cirencester (Phot. Frith) . . 42 



Teignmouth: the coast line and sea wall (Phot. Frith) . 47 



In the Fens. Returning from work ..... 49 



Rev. Charles Kingsley (Phot. Emery Walker) ... 53 



The Rows, Chester (Phot. Frith) 64 



Bournville 66 



Open-air School, Letchworth (Phot. Frith) .... 68 



Silk-weavers' houses in Church street, Spitalfields . . 73 



Italian Quarter, Hatton Garden, London (Phot. E. G. Wood) 74 



The New River, Clissold park (Phot. Valentine) . . 76 

 Thirlmere : before the enlargement of the lake (Phot. H. Bell, 



Ambleside) 78 



Thirlmere at the present day (Phot. H. Bell, Ambleside) . 79 

 View on the Great North road, Codicote village (Phot. The 



Homeland Association) 82 



George Stephenson's Engine 84 



The Grand Junction canal near Hemel Hempstead (Phot. 



The Homeland Association) 87 



Sketch map of the Manchester Ship canal .... 89 



The illustration on p. 8 is reproduced by courtesy of the Ven. 

 Archdeacon Cunningham ; that on p. 49 by permission of the late 

 Prof. T. McKenny Hughes ; those on p. 32 and p. 66 are from photo- 

 graphs kindly supplied by Chivers and Sons, Ltd., Histon, Cambs. 

 and Cadbury Brothers, Ltd., Bournville. Cover design based on 

 an illustration in The Encyclopaedia Britannica. 



