The Provincial Towns of Georgian England : A Study of the Building Process, 1740-1820

Cover Title Copyright Foreword Preface Contents Part I The Growth of Urban Society 1700-1820 1 The Town in a Rural Community 2 The Origins of an Urban Nation, c. 1750-1820 Part II The Building Land Promoter 3 Landowners, Developers and the Supply of Building Land 4 The Greater Urban Estates: Bath, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool 5 The Smaller Land Promotions : Nottingham, Portsea and Hull 6 Land Prices, Outlay and Profits Part III The Builder 7 The Building Owners 8 Houses and House Prices 9 Capital in Building: Outlay and Credit Part IV The Course of Urban Building 10 1740-1800 11 1800-1820 12 House-Building and Urban Growth Appendices I The Urban Population in 1801 II Population Growth of Market Towns and Seaports in Predominantly Agricultural Areas III Some Eighteenth-Century Title Deeds IV Aspects of Building Costs, c. 1780-1820 V Mortgage Capital VI Houses, Families and Population in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries VII Sources for figures 1-6 A Note on Sources Index