Perspectives in English Urban History Each volume in this series is designed to make available to students important new work on key historical problems and periods that they encounter in their courses. Every volume is devoted to a central topic or theme, and the most important aspects of this are dealt with by specially commissioned essays from specialists in the relevant field. The editorial Introduction reviews the problem or period as a whole, and each essay provides an assessment of the particular aspect, pointing out the areas of development and controversy and indicating where conclusions can be drawn or where further work is necessary. An annotated bibliography serves as an up-to-date guide to further reading.
PROBLEMS IN FOCUS SERIES Britain after the Glorious Revolution 1689-1714 edited by Geoffrey Holmes Britain Pre-eminent: Studies of British World Influence in the Nineteenth Century edited by C. J. Bartlett Popular Movement c. 1830-1850 edited by J. T.Ward The Republic and the Civil War in Spain edited by Raymond Carr Financing and Development in Latin America edited by Keith Griffin The Hundred Y ears War edited by Kenneth Fowler The Interregnum: The Quest for Settlement 1646-1660 edited by G. E. Aylmer The Reign of James VI and I edited by Alan G. R. Smith The Origins of the English Civil War edited by Conrad Russell Sweden's Age of Greatness 1632-1718 edited by Michael Roberts Perspectives in English Urban History edited by Alan Everitt FORTHCOMING TITLES Industrial Revolutions edited by R. M. Hartwell The Conservative Leadership 1832-1932 edited by Donald Southgate
Perspectives in English Urban History EDITED BY ALAN EVERITT Palgrave Macmillan
> Alan E-oeritt, R. C. W. Cox, Michael LaitJrwaite, D. M. Palliser, Alan Rogers, W. B. Stephens, John Whyman 1973 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1St edition 1973 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission First published 1973 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD London and Basingstoke Associated companies in New York Dublin Melbourne Johannesburg and Madras ISBN 978-1-349-00577-2 SBN 333 08556 6 ISBN 978-1-349-00575-8 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-00575-8
Contents List of Illustrations Note on Transcription Acknowledgements Introduction ALAN EVERITT 1 Late Medieval Stamford: A Study of the Town Council 1465-1492 16 ALAN ROGERS 2 York under the Tudors: The Trading Life of the Northern Capital 39 D. M. PALLISER 3 The Buildings of Burford: A Cotswold Town in the Fourteenth to Nineteenth Centuries 60 MICHAEL LAITHWAITE 4 The English Urban Inn, 1560-1760 ALAN EVERITT 5 A Hanoverian Watering-Place: Margate before the Railway 138 JOHN WHYMAN 6 Early Victorian Coventry: Education in an Industrial Community, 1830-1851 161 W. B. STEPHENS 7 The Old Centre of Croydon: Victorian Decay and Redevelopment 184 R. c. W. cox 8 Town and Country in Victorian Leicestershire: The Role of the Village Carrier 213 ALAN EVERITT vii ix ix 1 91
List of Abbreviations in Bibliography and References 241 Bibliography 242 References and Notes on Text 252 Notes on Contributors 263 Index 265
List of Illustrations MAPS AND FIGURES Fig. I Plan of Burford, 1881 63 Fig. 2 Stuart Thomas's shop, High Street, Burford 73 Fig. 3 Houses in High Street, Burford 74-5 Fig. 4 Bull Cottage, Witney Street, Burford 76 Fig. 5 (a) Highway Hotel, High Street, Burford (b) Calendars, Sheep Street, Burford (c) Grammar School Cottage, High Street, Burford 78 Fig. 6 (a) Bay Tree Hotel, Sheep Street, Burford (b) The Gabled House, High Street, Burford 79 Fig. 7 Edgehill, High Street, Burford 80 Fig. 8 Castle's Shop, High Street, Burford 82 Fig. 9 (a) London House, High Street, Burford (b) Symon's Close, High Street, Burford 84 Fig. 10 The Bear Inn, High Street, Burford 86 Fig. I I Taylor's Shop, High Street, Burford 87 Fig. I2 Crown Cottage, High Street, Burford 89 Fig.13 Map of Central Croydon in 1888 189 Fig.14 Map of Central Croydon in the 1950S 211 Fig.I5 Leicester Carriers' Routes in 1884 236 PLATES II III IV V VI I Bull Cottage, Witney Street, Burford, in 1840 East side of High Street, Burford: ( a) and (b) Falkland Hall, High Street, Burford, in 1821 Calendars, Sheep Street, Burford, in 1821 Wisdom's Cottages, Burford Edgehill, High Street, Burford
Note on Transcription THE spelling, punctuation and capitalisation of quotations from contemporary sources have in general been modernised, except where authors have considered it necessary to retain the original orthography. Acknowledgements THE editor thanks Her Majesty's Stationery Office for permission to reproduce details from the Ordnance Surveys of Croydon of 1954 and 1961; and the Principal and Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford, for permission to reproduce the 1898 plan of Taylor's shop in the High Street, Burford, in the college library. A.H. P.E.H.-I*