The Regional Books (book series)

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.

Title Date Author
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

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.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  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.


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