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Map reverse carries an illustrated gazetteer of sites of interest:
approx. 6,600 wordsMap cover carries inside a brief history of
Hull: 1,300 words. Illustrations: coloured engravings and early
views of buildings, monuments and street scenesA full colour map,
based on an Ordnance Survey map of 1928, with buildings and sites
of interest picked out. Few cities have experienced Hull's
uninterrupted position as one of Britain's leading centres of
population and economic activity over nine centuries. The variety
and richness of its architecture are too often overlooked. The map
shows the main medieval and post-medieval buildings in this
remarkable and interesting city, the second-most historic city of
Yorkshire. The map's cover has a short introduction to the city's
history, and on the reverse an illustrated and comprehensive
gazetteer of Hull's main buildings and sites of interest, from
medieval monasteries to cinemas and theatres, and the huge
fortified citadel.
A full colour map, based on a digitised OS map of Beverley of about
1908, with its medieval, Georgian and Victorian past overlain and
important buildings picked out. Beverley is one of England's most
attractive towns with two of the country's greatest medieval parish
churches, the Minster and St Mary's, and a wealth of Georgian
buildings. The medieval town had three main foci: to the south the
Minster, the probable origin of the town in the Saxon period, with
Wednesday Market; to the north Saturday Market and St Mary's
church; and to the south-east a port at the head of the canalised
Beverley Beck linking to the River Hull. In the 14th century the
town was one of the most populous and prosperous in Britain. This
prosperity came from the cloth trade, tanning and brickmaking as
well as the markets and fairs, and the many pilgrims who flocked to
the shrine of St John of Beverley. By the end of the Middle Ages,
the town was in decline, not helped by the dissolution of the great
collegiate Minster church in 1548. Beverley's fortunes revived in
the 18th century when it became the administrative capital of the
East Riding of Yorkshire and a thriving social centre. The gentry,
who came here for the Quarter Sessions and other gatherings
together with their families, patronised the racecourse, assembly
rooms, theatre and tree-lined promenade. It was they and the
growing number of professionals who built the large Georgian
houses, often set in extensive grounds, many of which survive. In
contrast the townscape and economy of Victorian Beverley was
dominated by several thriving industries, notably tanning, the
manufacture of agricultural machinery and shipbuilding. The map's
cover has a short introduction to the town's history, and on the
reverse an illustrated and comprehensive gazetteer of Beverley's
main sites of historic interest.
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