County Books series

The County Books series, by Robert Hale and Company of

London, covered counties and regions in the British Isles. It was
launched in March 1947, and began with Kent, Surrey and
Sussex.[1][2] The series was announced as completed in 1954, in 60
volumes, with Lowlands of Scotland: Edinburgh and the South by
Maurice Lindsay.[3] The announced intention was to give "a true
and lively picture of each county and people".[4]

Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald was general editor of the County Books,

and he also edited a series of Regional Books for Robert Hale.[5][6]
Both series were eulogistic about the countryside.[7]

The County Books

Title Year Author
County Books volumes (right)
Bedfordshire 1950 Laurence Meynell[8]
Berkshire 1952 Ian Yarrow[9]
Buckinghamshire 1950 Alison Uttley[10]
Cambridgeshire, Eric Arnold Roberts
Huntingdonshire and 1951
Ennion[11]
The Isle of Ely
Frederick Herbert
Cheshire 1949
Crossley[12]
The Channel Islands 1953 Wilfred D. Hooke[13]
Cornwall 1949 Claude Berry[14]
Cumberland and
Westmorland
1949 Norman Nicholson[15]

Derbyshire 1950 Crichton Porteous[16]

Douglas St. Leger-
Devonshire 1950
Gordon
Dorset 1950 Eric Benfield[17]
1952
Durham (two Timothy Calvert Eden
vols.)
East London 1950 Robert Sinclair[18]
Clarence Henry
Essex 1950
Warren[19]
Gloucestershire 1949 Kenneth Hare[20]
Brian Vesey-
Hampshire and the Isle
of Wight
1949 Fitzgerald[21] (series
editor)
Herefordshire 1948 Harry Luff Verne Fletcher[22]

Hertfordshire 1950 William Beach Thomas[23]

Highlands of Scotland 1963 Seton Gordon[24]

The Isle of Man 1950 E. H. Stenning[25]
Kent 1948 Richard Church[26]
Lancashire 1951 Walter Greenwood[27]

Leicestershire 1950 Guy Paget and Lionel Herbert Irvine[28]

Leinster, Munster and Connaught 1950 Frank O'Connor[29]

Lincoln 1952 John Bygott[30]

London West of the Bars 1951 Wilfrid Douglas Newton[31]

London: The City 1951 Claud Golding[32]

London: The Northern Reaches 1951 Robert Colville[33]

London: The Western Reaches 1950 Godfrey James[34]

Lowlands of Scotland: Edinburgh and

1956 Maurice Lindsay[35]
the South

Lowlands of Scotland: Glasgow and

the North
1953 Maurice Lindsay[36]

Middlesex 1951 Norman George Brett-James[37]

Monmouthshire 1951 Olive Phillips[38]

Doreen Wallace and Richard Perceval

Norfolk 1951
Bagnall Oakeley[39]

Northamptonshire 1954 Tony Ireson[40]

North-East Lowlands of Scotland 1952 John Robertson Allan[41]

Northumberland 1949 Herbert L. Honeyman[42]

Nottinghamshire 1953 Christopher Marsden[43]
Orkney 1951 Hugh Marwick[44]
Oxfordshire 1952 Joanna Cannan[45]

The Shetland Isles 1956 Andrew Thomas Cluness[46]

Shropshire 1949 Edmund Vale[47]

Skye and the Inner Hebrides 1953 Alasdair Alpin MacGregor[48]

Somerset 1949 M. Lovett Turner[49]
South London 1949 Harry Williams[50]
Staffordshire 1948 Phil Drabble[51]
Suffolk 1950 William Addison[41]

Surrey 1947 Frederick Moore Searle Parker[52]

Sussex 1947 Esther Meynell[53]

Ulster 1949 Hugh Shearman[54]

1952 (2
Wales
vols.) Maxwell Fraser[55]

Warwickshire 1950 Alan Burgess[56]

Western Isles 1949 Alasdair Alpin MacGregor[57]

Wiltshire 1951 Edith Olivier[58]

Worcestershire 1949 L. T. C. Rolt[59]

Yorkshire East Riding 1951 John Fairfax-Blakeborough[60]

Yorkshire North Riding 1951 Oswald Henry Harland[61]

Yorkshire West Riding 1950 Lettice Cooper[62]

See also
Portrait Books series
The Regional Books

References
1. The Bookseller. J. Whitaker. 1954. p. 225.
2. Dave Russell (1 October 2004). Looking North: Northern England and the National
Imagination (https://books.google.com/books?id=fGI3Bgy54OcC&pg=PA47). Manchester
University Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-7190-5178-4.
3. The Bookseller. J. Whitaker. 1954. p. 21.
4. Gavin Stamp (1 December 2013). Anti-Ugly: Excursions in English Architecture and Design
(https://books.google.com/books?id=_bqcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA2). Aurum Press Limited. p. 2.
ISBN 978-1-78131-123-3.
5. L. T. C. Rolt (1977). Landscape with Canals. Lane. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-7139-0799-5.
6. May Theilgaard Watts (1 August 2009). Reading the Landscape of Europe (https://books.goo
gle.com/books?id=81KbJE6wUu0C&pg=PA303). Nature Study Guild Publishers. p. 303.
ISBN 978-0-912550-30-5.
7. Paul J. Cloke (2003). Country Visions (https://books.google.com/books?id=e-nNU3d368sC&
pg=PA56). Pearson/Prentice Hall. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-13-089601-8.
8. Laurence Meynell (1950). Bedfordshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=hZsvAAAAIAA
J). R. Hale.
 9. Ian Harley Haynes Yarrow (1952). Berkshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=UBZGAQ
AAIAAJ). Robert Hale.
10. Alison Uttley (1950). Buckinghamshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=0ZsvAAAAIAA
J). R. Hale.
11. Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion (1951). Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely (htt
ps://books.google.com/books?id=JTD_MgEACAAJ). London.
12. Frederick Herbert Crossley (1949). Cheshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=XPVFAQA
AIAAJ). R. Hale.
13. Wilfred D. Hooke (1953). The Channel Islands (https://books.google.com/books?id=fNmGAA
AAIAAJ). Hale.
14. Claude Berry (1949). Cornwall (https://books.google.com/books?id=pV8jAAAAMAAJ). R.
Hale.
15. Norman Nicholson (1949). Cumberland and Westmorland (https://books.google.com/books?i
d=3rQxAQAAIAAJ). Hale.
16. Crichton Porteous (1950). Derbyshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=z50vAAAAIAAJ).
R. Hale.
17. Eric Benfield (1950). Dorset (https://books.google.com/books?id=F3EKAQAAMAAJ). R.
Hale. ISBN 9787270004020.
18. Robert Sinclair (1950). East London: The East and North-east Boroughs of London and
Greater London (https://books.google.com/books?id=RJovAAAAIAAJ). Hale.
19. Clarence Henry Warren (1950). Essex (https://books.google.com/books?id=eLn6MgEACAA
J). London.
20. Kenneth Hare (1949). Gloucestershire (https://books.google.com/books?id=ktUxAQAAIAAJ).
R. Hale. ISBN 9787230007689.
21. Brian Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald (1949). Hampshire & the Isle of Wight (https://books.googl
e.com/books?id=vq_RAAAAMAAJ). R. Hale.
22. Harry Luff Verne Fletcher (1948). Herefordshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=XZkvA
AAAIAAJ). R. Hale.
23. William Beach Thomas (1950). Hertfordshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=1mAGAQ
AAIAAJ). R. Hale. ISBN 9787270004402.
24. Seton Gordon (1963). Highlands of Scotland (https://books.google.com/books?id=c8cMnwE
ACAAJ). Hale.
25. N. H. Woodcock (1999). In Sight of the Suture: Palaeozoic Geology of the Isle of Man in Its
Iapetus Ocean Context (https://books.google.com/books?id=FGhuYs4MU2sC&pg=PA359).
Geological Society of London. p. 359. ISBN 978-1-86239-046-1.
26. Richard Church (1948). Kent (https://books.google.com/books?id=CbKBnQEACAAJ).
27. Walter Greenwood (1951). Lancashire (https://books.google.com/books?id=9FCvAAAAIAA
J). Hale.
28. Guy Paget; Lionel Irvine (1950). Leicestershire (https://books.google.com/books?id=tGgKAQ
AAMAAJ). Hale.
29. Frank O'Connor (1950). Leinster, Munster and Connaught (https://books.google.com/books?i
d=40eTAAAAIAAJ). R. Hale.
30. John Bygott (1952). Lincolnshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=8RuJQAAACAAJ). R.
Hale.
31. Wilfrid Douglas Newton (1951). London West of the Bars (https://books.google.com/books?i
d=D54vAAAAIAAJ). Hale.
32. Claud Golding (1951). London: the city (https://books.google.com/books?id=AawxAQAAIAA
J). Hale. ISBN 9787250010423.
33. Robert Colville (1951). London: The Northern Reaches (https://books.google.com/books?id=
sm-sAAAAIAAJ). Robert Hale, Limited.
34. Godfrey James (1950). London, the Western Reaches (https://books.google.com/books?id=5
KoxAQAAIAAJ). Hale.
35. Maurice Lindsay (broadcaster) (1956). The Lowlands of Scotland: Edinburgh and the South
(https://books.google.com/books?id=TJV0nAEACAAJ). R. Hale.
36. Maurice Lindsay (broadcaster) (1953). The lowlands of Scotland: Glasgow and the North.
Illus. and with a map (https://books.google.com/books?id=BqsxAQAAIAAJ). Robert Hale.
ISBN 9787230006941.
37. Norman George Brett-James (1951). Middlesex (https://books.google.com/books?id=ENgxA
QAAIAAJ). Hale. ISBN 9787270003702.
38. Olive Phillips (1951). Monmouthshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=4DoGAQAAIAA
J). R. Hale.
39. Doreen Wallace; Richard Perceval Bagnall Oakeley (1951). Norfolk (https://books.google.co
m/books?id=4-kfPwAACAAJ). London.
40. Tony Ireson (1954). Northamptonshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=HEbVngEACAA
J). Hale. ISBN 9787270004266.
41. Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (https://books.google.com/books?id
=y008AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA143). CUP Archive. 1965. p. 143. GGKEY:3YZHZLHSC2A.
42. Herbert L. Honeyman (1949). Northumberland (https://books.google.com/books?id=q1p_oA
EACAAJ).
43. Christopher Marsden (1953). Nottinghamshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=VdQ9AA
AAIAAJ). Hale.
44. Hugh Marwick (1951). Orkney (https://books.google.com/books?id=YtwJAQAAIAAJ). Hale.
ISBN 9787250002534.
45. Joanna Cannan (1952). Oxfordshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=I3UKAQAAMAAJ).
Hale.
46. Andrew T. Cluness (1956). The Shetland Isles (https://books.google.com/books?id=rngKAQ
AAMAAJ). Hale.
47. Edmund Vale (1949). Shropshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=rHDXAAAAMAAJ).
Robert Hale.
48. Alasdair Alpin MacGregor (1953). Skye and the Inner Hebrides (https://books.google.com/bo
oks?id=cRUjAAAAMAAJ). Hale. ISBN 9787230006866.
49. M. Lovett Turner (1949). Somerset (https://books.google.com/books?id=ZMYxAQAAIAAJ).
Hale.
50. Harry Williams (1949). South London (https://books.google.com/books?id=J60xAQAAIAAJ).
Robert Hale.
51. Phil Drabble (1948). Staffordshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=ynYKAQAAMAAJ).
R. Hale. ISBN 9787270004075.
52. Pottle, Mark. "Parker, Frederick Moore Searle". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35383 (https://doi.org/10.1093%2
Fref%3Aodnb%2F35383). (Subscription or UK public library membership (https://www.oxforddnb.
com/help/subscribe#public) required.)
53. Esther Meynell (1947). Sussex (https://books.google.com/books?id=6spEAAAACAAJ).
Hale. ISBN 978-0-7091-2617-1.
54. Hugh Shearman (1949). Ulster (https://archive.org/details/ulster0000shea). R. Hale.
55. Bobby Freeman (1996). First Catch Your Peacock: Her Classic Guide to Welsh Food (https://
books.google.com/books?id=-gwkXuzJOPQC&pg=PA311). Y Lolfa. p. 311. ISBN 978-0-
86243-315-4.
56. Alan Burgess (1950). Warwickshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=cF0JAQAAIAAJ).
R. Hale. ISBN 9787800669972.
57. Alasdair Alpin MacGregor (1949). The Western Isles (https://books.google.com/books?id=Hx
EjAAAAMAAJ). Hale.
58. Edith Olivier (1951). Wiltshire (https://books.google.com/books?id=sLwjMwEACAAJ). Hale,
London.
59. L. T. C. Rolt (1949). Worcestershire (https://books.google.com/books?id=zZ4vAAAAIAAJ). R.
Hale. ISBN 9787270004105.
60. John Fairfax-Blakeborough (1951). Yorkshire East Riding (https://books.google.com/books?i
d=QooxAQAAIAAJ). R. Hale.
61. Oswald Henry Harland (1951). Yorkshire North Riding (https://books.google.com/books?id=
PIsxAQAAIAAJ). Hale.
62. Lettice Ulpha Cooper (1950). Yorkshire West Riding (https://books.google.com/books?id=GF
4JAQAAIAAJ). Hale.

External links
Library Thing page (https://www.librarything.com/nseries/50523/The-County-Books-Series)

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