Urbanization Inwards England & Wales

The Urban Growth Explorer visualizes the huge urbanization of England & Wales inwards the final 150 years. The map overlays modern U.K. town too metropolis boundaries on transcend of an 1885 Ordnance Survey map to visualize how Britain's towns too cities bring grown since the mid-19th century.

Before industrialization England & Wales were both largely rural countries. In 1801 the proportion of the population living inwards towns too cities amongst to a greater extent than than 20,000 people was 17%. In 1891 that proportion had risen to 54%. This shift from a largely rural population to an urban population led to the huge increment inwards the size of towns too cities. For example, inwards 1717 the metropolis of Manchester had a population of 10,000. By 1911 it had grown to 2.3 million.

Using the Urban Growth Explorer y'all tin search for a town or metropolis inwards England & Wales too persuasion (where available) a 2015 town boundary overlaid on transcend of a map of the place from 1885. If no modern boundary is available for your town y'all tin switch to the side-by-side persuasion to compare the 1885 map amongst the modern aerial persuasion of your town.


You tin also explore the UK's shift from a predominately rural to urban province inwards Populations Past. In the minute one-half of the 19th Century Britain went through a procedure of demographic transition equally the industrial revolution fundamentally changed the agency that people lived.

The University of Cambridge's Populations Past is an interactive atlas of Victorian too Edwardian England & Wales. The map allows y'all to explore about of the huge social too geographical changes which took house inwards England & Wales during the minute one-half of the 19th century too the termination that those changes had on the population.

The map includes a disclose of unlike demographic measures too socio-economic indicators which permit y'all to explore for yourself the termination of the demographic transition over fourth dimension too betwixt unlike locations. The side-by-side persuasion uses 2 unlike maps to assist visualize the effects of the demographic transition on locations throughout England & Wales over time.