Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, No. II. Northern England

London England: Office of the Royal Historical Society. Very Good/Good. 1991. First Edition. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Quarto 0861931270 Hardback Hardback. First Edition. Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. Volume II. Northern England. Wear and tear to edges of D/J. Small piece of D/J. missing from bottom edge. Slight reading marks to back D/J. This volume, covering Northern England (north of a line drawn roughly from the Severn to the Wasg), completes Professor Young's guide by countries to the changes in nomenciature, status and extent of all the parishes and other ecclesiastical amnd civil units in England. By means of a skilfully devised and easy to use sytem of abbreviations, the editor has compressed into two volumes a massive amount of information, covering all the alterations affecting the ancient parishes, civil aprishes, loval government units, and parliamentary constitutencies, from the early middle ages to the local government act of 1972, which created the modern divisions. This work will be of great value not only to local historians and archives, but also to local government officers and solicitors. 919 pp. Plastic protective covering. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .