'Landownership, mining and urban development in nineteenth century Staffordshire' in J Ward & R Wilson (eds), Land and Industry. The landed estate and the Industrial Revolution
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- Author(s) Sturgess, Roy W
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1971
- Pages pp173-204
- Publisher David & Charles
- Place Published Newton Abbot
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Considers the links between aristocratic landowners and extraction and urban development in the Potteries and Black Country , in particular why landowners exploited their resources in this way and established dependency on industrial and urban revenues and how they viewed and used these revenues. Deals in particular with estates of Earl of Dudley, Earl of Dartmouth, Lord Hatherton, Sneyd family