The Regional Books (book series)

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

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]

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

Title Date Author
Black Country 1952 Phil Drabble
Breckland 1956 Olive Cook
The Broads 1952 R. H. Mottram
The Channel Shore 1953 Aubrey de Selincourt
The Cotswolds 1955 Edith Brill
Dartmoor[3] 1958 Ernest Walter Martin
Exmoor 1953 Laurence Meynell
The Fens 1953 Alan Bloom
Forest of Dean[4] 1952 Francis William Baty
Gower 1956 Olive Phillips
Holiday Lancashire 1955 Sydney Moorhouse
The Isle of Wight 1953 Monica Hutchings
The Mendips[5] 1954 Arthur Wilfred Coysh, Edward John Mason and Vincent Waite
Merthyr, Rhondda and The Valleys 1958 Arthur Trystan Edwards
The Northern Marches[6] 1953 Cledwyn Hughes
Peakland 1954 Crichton Porteous
Pembrokeshire 1957 Ronald Lockley
Romney Marsh 1953 Walter J. C. Murray
Salisbury Plain 1955 Ralph Whitlock
The Scilly Isles[7] 1953 Clara Coltman Rogers Vyvyan
Sedgemoor and Avalon 1954 Desmond Hawkins
The Solway Firth 1955 Brian Blake
The South Hams 1955 Margaret Willy
The Southern Marches 1952 H. J. Massingham
Thames Estuary 1954 William Wilkinson Addison
Torridon Highlands[8] 1953 Brenda Grace Joan Macrow
The Vale of Berkeley 1954 Lewis Wilshire
The Vale of Pewsey 1954 H. W. Timperley
The Weald of Kent and Sussex 1953 Sheila Kaye-Smith
The Wessex Heathland 1953 Ralph Wightman
The Wirral Peninsula 1955 Norman Ellison

See also

References

  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.