The Regional Books (book series)

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The Regional Books was a book series of topographical guides to the British regions published by Robert Hale and Company[1] from 1952. It was edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald.[2]

Torridon Highlands by Brenda G. Macrow in The Regional Books series, 1953.

In the 1970s they published a broader Regions of Britain series.

TitleDateAuthor
Black Country1952Phil Drabble
Breckland1956Olive Cook
The Broads1952R. H. Mottram
The Channel Shore1953Aubrey de Selincourt
The Cotswolds1955Edith Brill
Dartmoor[3]1958Ernest Walter Martin
Exmoor1953Laurence Meynell
The Fens1953Alan Bloom
Forest of Dean[4]1952Francis William Baty
Gower1956Olive Phillips
Holiday Lancashire1955Sydney Moorhouse
The Isle of Wight1953Monica Hutchings
The Mendips[5]1954Arthur Wilfred Coysh, Edward John Mason and Vincent Waite
Merthyr, Rhondda and The Valleys1958Arthur Trystan Edwards
The Northern Marches[6]1953Cledwyn Hughes
Peakland1954Crichton Porteous
Pembrokeshire1957Ronald Lockley
Romney Marsh1953Walter J. C. Murray
Salisbury Plain1955Ralph Whitlock
The Scilly Isles[7]1953Clara Coltman Rogers Vyvyan
Sedgemoor and Avalon1954Desmond Hawkins
The Solway Firth1955Brian Blake
The South Hams1955Margaret Willy
The Southern Marches1952H. J. Massingham
Thames Estuary1954William Wilkinson Addison
Torridon Highlands[8]1953Brenda Grace Joan Macrow
The Vale of Berkeley1954Lewis Wilshire
The Vale of Pewsey1954H. W. Timperley
The Weald of Kent and Sussex1953Sheila Kaye-Smith
The Wessex Heathland1953Ralph Wightman
The Wirral Peninsula1955Norman Ellison

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References

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  1. ^ "Rural Mappings" by Catherine Brace in Paul J. Cloke, ed. (2003). Country Visions. Harlow: Pearson Education. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-13-089601-8.
  2. ^ May Theilgaard Watts (1 August 2009). Reading the Landscape of Europe. Nature Study Guild Publishers. pp. 49–72 (p. 303). ISBN 978-0-912550-30-5.
  3. ^ Ernest Walter Martin (1958). Dartmoor. Hale.
  4. ^ Francis William Baty (1952). Forest of Dean. R. Hale.
  5. ^ Arthur Wilfred Coysh; E. J. Mason; V. Waite (1954). The Mendips. Hale.
  6. ^ Cledwyn Hughes (1953). The Northern Marches. Hale.
  7. ^ C. C. Vyvyan (1953). The Scilly Isles. Hale.
  8. ^ Brenda Grace Joan Macrow (1953). Torridon Highlands. Robert Hale.