The Regional Books (book series) explained

The Regional Books was a book series of topographical guides to the British regions published by Robert Hale and Company[1] from 1952. It was edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald.[2]

In the 1970s they published a broader Regions of Britain series.

TitleDateAuthor
Black Country1952Phil Drabble
Breckland1956Olive Cook
The Broads1952R. H. Mottram
The Channel Shore1953Aubrey de Selincourt
The Cotswolds1955Edith Brill
Dartmoor[3] 1958Ernest Walter Martin
Exmoor1953Laurence Meynell
The Fens1953Alan Bloom
Forest of Dean[4] 1952Francis William Baty
Gower1956Olive Phillips
Holiday Lancashire1955Sydney Moorhouse
The Isle of Wight1953Monica Hutchings
The Mendips[5] 1954Arthur Wilfred Coysh, Edward John Mason and Vincent Waite
Merthyr, Rhondda and The Valleys1958Arthur Trystan Edwards
The Northern Marches[6] 1953Cledwyn Hughes
Peakland1954Crichton Porteous
Pembrokeshire1957Ronald Lockley
Romney Marsh1953 Walter J. C. Murray
Salisbury Plain1955Ralph Whitlock
The Scilly Isles[7] 1953Clara Coltman Rogers Vyvyan
Sedgemoor and Avalon1954Desmond Hawkins
The Solway Firth1955Brian Blake
The South Hams1955Margaret Willy
The Southern Marches1952H. J. Massingham
Thames Estuary1954William Wilkinson Addison
Torridon Highlands[8] 1953Brenda Grace Joan Macrow
The Vale of Berkeley1954Lewis Wilshire
The Vale of Pewsey1954H. W. Timperley
The Weald of Kent and Sussex1953Sheila Kaye-Smith
The Wessex Heathland1953Ralph Wightman
The Wirral Peninsula1955Norman Ellison

See also

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=e-nNU3d368sC&pg=PA56 "Rural Mappings"
  2. Book: May Theilgaard Watts. Reading the Landscape of Europe. 1 August 2009. Nature Study Guild Publishers. 978-0-912550-30-5. 49–72 (p. 303).
  3. Book: Ernest Walter Martin. Dartmoor. 1958. Hale.
  4. Book: Francis William Baty. Forest of Dean. 1952. R. Hale.
  5. Book: Arthur Wilfred Coysh. E. J. Mason. V. Waite. The Mendips. 1954. Hale.
  6. Book: Cledwyn Hughes. The Northern Marches. 1953. Hale.
  7. Book: C. C. Vyvyan. Clara Coltman Vyvyan. The Scilly Isles. 1953. Hale.
  8. Book: Brenda Grace Joan Macrow. Torridon Highlands. 1953. Robert Hale.