UK Background Studies - The North

THE NORTH

Counties

• Northumbria
• Cumbria
• Durham
• Lancashire
• Yorkshire
• (Cheshire)

Mountain ranges

• Pennines
• Yorkshire Moors
• Lake District (Cumbria)
• Peak District (Yorkshire)

Industrial revolution

• late 1700s, early 1800s
• machine-based manufacturing
• textiles, iron-making, coals, canals, roads, railways
• economic and social changes

Newcastle upon Tyne

• past: coal mining, wool trade, shipbuilding
• Geordies
• Newcastle International Airport
• Newcastle Airport
• University
• Metro

Liverpool

• Scouses
• in the 1980s highes unemployment in England
• in the past…