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The Bristol Region is the only one to take its name from its largest urban centre — a feature which indicates both the historical importance of Bristol and its commanding position in this period in what was now not a relatively densely populated part of the country. Bristol grew up on the border between Somerset and Gloucestershire, and these two counties, with the exception of the eastern slope of the Cotswolds, but with the addition of the Avon Valley in Wiltshire, constitute the region we are now about to consider.
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Much of the history of Bristol remains to be written, but see B. Little, City and County of Bristol (1954) and, for an analytical survey with some historical background, C. M. MacInnes and W. F. Whittard, Bristol and Its Adjoining Counties (Bristol, 1955).
W. Minchinton, The Port of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century (Bristol, 1962), p. 3.
C. Wells, Short History of the Port of Bristol (Bristol, 1909), p. 264.
P. G. Craigie, ‘Size and Distribution of Agricultural Holdings’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, I (1887), 96; VCH Wilts., iv, 64; Maclnnes and Whittard, p. 112.
G. F. Browne, Recollections of a Bishop (1915), p. 382.
A. J. Green-Armytage, Concerning Clifton (1922), p. 48.
J. Latimer, Annals of Bristol in the Nineteenth Century, 1887–1900 (Bristol, 1902), p. 67.
C. Wyndham Murray, A Varied Life (Winchester, 1925), p. 146.
B. M. Swainson, ‘Rural Settlement in Somerset’, Society of Somerset Folk, Somerset Year Book (1936), p. 74.
The Marquess was in considerable financial difficulties. See Thomas W. L., Baron Newton, Lord Lansdowne (1929), p. 25.
Birmingham Post, 5 Dec. 1885; Western Daily Press, 25 Jan. 1906; Sir John Dorington, The Unionist Cause in Tewkesbury (Cheltenham, 1891).
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Pelling, H. (1967). Bristol Region. In: Social Geography of British Elections 1885–1910. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00301-3_7
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