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This title, first published in 1952, addresses an urgent rural problem, whether our ancient market centres and administrative boundaries were still the effective centres and boundaries of everyday rural life, and, if not, what were. It sheds new light on the problem by taking a typical English rural county and studying it in detail.
List of contents
Foreword by
Dr S. W. Wooldridge. Acknowledgments. List of Tables. List of Maps and Diagrams. Introduction.
Part I 1. The Physical Background to the Human Geography of Wiltshire 2. Communications and Public Transport Services 3. Distribution of Industry 4. The Population of Wiltshire 1801-1949
Part II 5. Areas 6. Commercial and Professional Services 7. Social Organisations 8. Public Utility Services 9. Official Administration 10. Boundary Change
Part III 11. An Index of Social Provision 12. Grading Wiltshire Settlements 13. Great Bedwyn and its Territory: A Village Study 14. Conclusion. Appendix A: Questionnaire Used in the Enquiry. Appendix B: Index of Social Provision in Each Settlement. Index. Names of Places: Key to Folder Map.
About the author
Howard E. Bracey (1905 -1996) had an international reputation as a rural sociologist, from his work with the European Society for Rural Sociology and the International Committee for Cooperation in Rural Sociology. He was English editor of the European journal
Sociologia Ruralis for a number of years and his published works following this one include
English Rural Life (1959),
Industry and the Countryside (1963),
Neighbours (1964) and
In Retirement (1966). He went on to become Research Fellow in Rural Sociology with the status of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Bristol.
Summary
This title, first published in 1952, addresses an urgent rural problem, whether our ancient market centres and administrative boundaries were still the effective centres and boundaries of everyday rural life, and, if not, what were. It sheds new light on the problem by taking a typical English rural county and studying it in detail.
