1. P. J. Corfield, The Impact of English Towns 1700–1800 (Oxford, 1982), p. 9;
2. Robert Woods, The Population of Britain in the Nineteenth Century, new edn (Cambridge, 1995), p. 15;
3. Kathleen Wilson, The Sense of the People. Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715–1785 (Cambridge, 1995), p. 7.
4. Jose Harris, Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain 1870–1914, Penguin edn (Harmondsworth, 1994), pp. 41–3.
5. For a complete listing, see Frederic A. Youngs, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, 2 vols, London, Royal Historical Society (1979/91).