Abstract
MR. HEWITT has selected a small and well-defined area, and in successive chapters has considered its physical, biological, and human aspects, in an endeavour to explain the geographical evolution of the area. The social and economic conditions of any region must necessarily depend to a large extent on its position, natural features, soil, climate, and vegetation. Wirral is only some 1–30 square miles in extent and until the middle of the nineteenth century was almost entirely agricultural. But the rapid increase of manufacturingf industries across the Mersey and growing commercial importance of the Mersey estuary have resulted in an industrial invasion of the left bank of the river. Industries promise to show a steady increase in importance. Agriculture will probably retain its hold, but considerable changes in methods and conditions are taking place. The social evolution which Wirral is now undergoing can be adequately understood only by a study of its regional geography in the light of the past. The volume is. an example of the growing attention that is being paid to regional survey, and is a welcome addition to the small number of studies of this kind which have been prepared in this country. We gather that the author regards it as a preliminary sketch, and that a fuller survey is in course of preparation.
The Wirral Peninsula: an Outline Regional Survey.
W.
Hewitt
By. Pp. x + 293. (Liverpool: University Press of Liverpool, Ltd.; London: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., 1922.) 7s. 6d. net.
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The Wirral Peninsula: an Outline Regional Survey . Nature 111, 217 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111217b0
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