Seeking to draw new conclusions about settlement distributions and
population densities, patterns of wealth, underprivileged assistance,
and land usage, this reference uses multiple criteria to subdivide
England into regions. This unusual and probing study establishes the
presence of an informal cultural frontier between two proposed
societies, which would lie astride the Leicestershire-Lincolnshire
border, in order to identify cultural differences and divides that are
clearly visible in the English countryside. Taking the unique approach
of stressing early-modern-period rural landscapes, this examination
looks at the enduring social and economic links between the area's
population and its landscape.