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Map of Somerset, UK with Bath and North East Somerset highlighted. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 155%: Date: 27 February 2011: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Coastline and administrative boundary data from Boundary-Line product. Lake data from Meridian 2 product. Inset derived from England location map ...
Bath and North East Somerset Council has established the Bath City Forum, comprising B&NES councillors representing wards in Bath and up to 13 co-opted members drawn from the communities of the city. The first meeting of the Forum was held on 13 October 2015, at the Guildhall, where the first chair and vice-chair were elected. [ 87 ]
England prints its own banknotes which are also circulated in Wales. The economy of England is the largest part of the United Kingdom's economy. Regional differences: A map of England divided by the average GVA per capita in 2007 showing the distribution of wealth. The strength of the English economy varies from region to region.
c. February: Old Bath Preservation Society, predecessor of Bath Preservation Trust, set up. [7] 19–24 July: Historical Pageant staged in Royal Victoria Park. [64] St Winifred's Quarry built as a house on Combe Down to the design of Charles Voysey. [6] 1910 – Jubilee Hall Cinema operating in Assembly Rooms.
Bath is approximately 12 miles (19 km) south-east of the larger city and port of Bristol, to which it is linked by the A4 road, and is a similar distance south of the M4 motorway. Bath and North East Somerset is also served by the A37 and A368 trunk roads, and a network of smaller roads.
English Society in the Eighteenth Century (2nd ed. 1991) excerpt; Royle, Edward. Modern Britain: A Social History 1750–1997 (2nd ed. 1997), with detailed bibliography pp 406–444; Ryder, Judith, and Harold Silver. Modern English society: history and structure 1850-1970 (1970) online. Sharpe, J. A. Early Modern England: A Social History 1550 ...
The 18th century was largely one of peace and declining industrial prosperity in Somerset. The Industrial Revolution in the Midlands and Northern England spelt the end for most of Somerset's cottage industries. However, farming continued to flourish, with the Bath and West of England Agricultural Society being founded in 1777 to improve methods.
The drawings are now held in the British Library, and cover most of England south of a line between Liverpool and Kingston upon Hull, as well as parts of Wales. The drawings provide a unique record of landscapes and land use in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, of the expanding canal and turnpike road networks, and of place-names.