Exeter and Its Region

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University of Exeter, 1969 - History - 343 pages


This volume is the latest in the series of regional studies issued on the occasion of meetings of the British Association. The 31 contributors, mostly staff of the University of Exeter but including seven outside experts, have provided authoritative and up-to-date accounts of the archaeology, history, economy and political structure of Devon and Exeter against the wider physical and biological background of the south-west peninsula as a whole. To this have been added chapters on the city of Exeter; its growth since 1840, its medical services, social structure and University. To add spice to the mixture, there are concluding chapters on the writers and artists of Devon and Cornwall.



Lists of suggested further reading have been appended to most chapters, and the volume is illustrated by numerous tables, plans, diagrams and plates.

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... crops and Bulletin 138 gives the following estimates of the frequency of irrigation need for most shallow rooted crops . In both counties in areas with annual average rainfall up to about 33 inches the need will arise in nine years in ...
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... crop . South Devon comprises the eighth region , a large and varied area with a complex geological background , but a kindly climate , protected from the north by Dartmoor . The farming has in the past been mixed , based on the dual ...
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... crop occupying 83.6 thousand acres out of a total cereal crop of 135.2 thousand acres , but by 1967 , the acreage had fallen to 18.6 thousand or less than 10 per cent of the total cereals . The massive increase in the barley acreage has ...

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
3
GEOMORPHOLOGY
27
CLIMATE
43
Copyright

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About the author (1969)

Frank Barlow was Professor of History at the University of Exeter

Bibliographic information

TitleExeter and Its Region
Surveys, British Association for the Advancement of Science
[British Association surveys 1969]
AuthorFrank Barlow
EditorFrank Barlow
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Exeter, 1969
ISBN0900771046, 9780900771040
Length343 pages
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