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The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales.
Although the United Kingdom is a unitary sovereign state, it contains three distinct legal jurisdictions in Scotland, England and Wales, and Northern Ireland, each retaining its own legal system even after joining the UK. [9] Since 1998, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales have also gained significant autonomy through the process of devolution.
12 April – Britain annexes the South African Republic, violating the Sand River Convention of 1852 causing a new Xhosa War. [1] 24 April – six Scotch whisky distilleries combine to form Distillers Company. [1] 30 April – the Diocese of St Albans is founded within the Church of England from part of the Diocese of Rochester. [4]
The approximate limit of coin-minting tribes in south Britain, and the limits of the campaigns of Claudius and Aulus Plautius.. Before and during the Roman occupation of Britain, all the native inhabitants of the island (other than the Pictish/Caledonian tribes of what is now northern Scotland—and also excepting the Lloegyr of greater south-east Britain [dubious – discuss]) spoke Brythonic ...
South Wales (Welsh: De Cymru [ˌdeː ˌkəmri]) is a loosely defined region of Wales bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north. Generally considered to include the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire , south Wales extends westwards to include Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire .
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The Anglo-Scottish border in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the problem of perspective" In: Appleby, J.C. and Dalton, P. (Eds) Government, religion and society in Northern England 1000-1700, Stroud : Sutton, ISBN 0-7509-1057-7, p. 27–39; Crofton, Ian (2014) Walking the Border: A Journey Between Scotland and England, Birlinn
22 October – Blantyre mining disaster: Scotland's worst-ever mining accident kills over 200. [3] 3 December – the original Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute is burned down. Ex-President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant tours his ancestral Scotland. [4] The rebuilt Ardverikie House in Badenoch, designed by John Rhind, is completed. [5]