The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914 · THE MAP AROUND c. 1785

Map of the Industrial Revolution in Europe around 1785

Arkwright’s mills and the first canals

The Industrial Revolution in Europe around 1785: Arkwright’s mills and the first canals. Since 1750, 1 territory changed status on this map: Great Britain and Ulster.

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Map of the Industrial Revolution in Europe around 1785: Arkwright’s mills and the first canals. Colours show Industrialising. — c. 1785 · THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750–1914

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Bartholomew: Literary & Historical Atlas of Europe,1914 · Canal & River Trust: historic canals · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography · Maps of History: industrial geography reconstruction record · UNESCO: Derwent Valley Mills

Source details

John George Bartholomew,1914; economic maps printedpp48–49 and53; railwayspp50–51. Original author died1920. Public-domain original scan; commercially restricted MapsETC derivative not used.. Public-domain original historical cartography; geographic facts independently reconstructed
Canal & River Trust route histories, named canal endpoints and opening chronology.. Independent named-route reconstruction; no modern map artwork copied
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Selected, combined, reprojected and corrected by Maps of History as described per layer.. CC BY4.0
Made with Natural Earth; present coastlines support physical clipping, not historical political boundaries.. Public domain
Named districts and route stations from the linked published atlases. District perimeters are interpretive economic regions, not sovereign borders or parcel-level industrial land use.. Original independent thematic reconstructions; source artwork not embedded
UNESCO World Heritage Centre; named industrial locations and period evidence. The atlas district is not a copy of the modern UNESCO property boundary.. Factual geographic evidence; property artwork not redistributed

Country fills apply the existing educational industrialisation stages to dated published polities. They do not imply that development was uniform throughout each empire. Economic districts represent thematic regions. Source dates and reconstruction methods are recorded separately.

reconstruction: 1785 · reconstruction: Named district within chapter chronology · vector: 1645–1793 · vector: 1706–1787 · vector: 1709–1808 · vector: 1721–1813 · vector: 1734–1795 · vector: 1748–1791 · vector: 1748–1793 · vector: 1748–1795 · vector: 1748–1796 · vector: 1762–1793 · vector: 1762–1798 · vector: 1763–1790 · vector: 1763–1808 · vector: 1772–1791 · vector: 1772–1806 · vector: 1775–1790 · vector: 1775–1795 · vector: 1775–1806 · vector: 1780–1787 · vector: 1780–1790 · vector: 1780–1791 · vector: 1781–1795 · vector: 1783–1787

Layer records and reconstruction methods

What changes on the map

Great Britain and Ulster

Agrarian economy → Industrialising

On the ground

the early cotton district around Manchester, Bolton and Blackburn, c. 1785
the mills of the Derwent valley, from Cromford to Derby

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