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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.
Hand-drawn map of Radnorshire, Brecknockshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire by Christopher Saxton in 1578. The county of Brecknock was created in 1536 under the Laws in Wales Act 1535, which formally incorporated Wales into the Kingdom of England and extended English models of government, including counties, across all of Wales.
12 March – Britain annexes Walvis Bay in South Africa. [1] 14 March – former Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas dies in exile in Southampton. [1] 15 March – English cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1876–77: the first Test cricket match takes place between England and Australia. [2]
The Acts of Union 1707 refer to both England and Scotland as a "part" of a united kingdom of Great Britain. [23] The Acts of Union 1800 use "part" in the same way to refer to England and Scotland. However, they use the word "country" to describe Great Britain and Ireland respectively, when describing trade between them. [24]
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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And compared to previously known maps, like Ptolemy's Geography, it greatly improves the detail on the coast of England and Wales, although its depiction of the then independent Kingdom of Scotland is very poor. [11] Towns are shown in some detail, with London and York written in gold lettering and other principal settlements illustrated in ...
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]