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Topographical surveys
Over a period of several hundred years surveys,
gazetteers and guide books have been published, often of national
origin, which provide a great deal of information about specific
localities and whole regions. They may take the form of travel
memoirs, highlighting the striking features of towns and villages
situated along the route of travel, or present the topographical
information in the more systematic form of alphabetically arranged
entries.
History
Early examples of such surveys include William
Camden's Britannia (1586, English translation 1610), Celia Fiennes'
Journeys (1698) and Daniel Defoe's Tour through the whole island
of Great Britain (1724), all of which provide vivid descriptions
of the Halifax area. During the 19th century gazetteers became
more common, supplemented in the 20th century by official guide
books published by local authorities. Increasingly, these surveys
came to be produced for tourist information purposes.
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