ABSTRACT
The landscape of the Gorge is celebrated as the setting for a series of significant developments in the history of industry and technology: this study has aimed to understand more precisely what constitutes that landscape and how it was developed, setting terms of reference for comparison with other areas. There have been two strands to this inquiry: it has looked at how industrial development took place in the landscapeidentifying patterns of development and change in individual industries, in the relationships between industries, as well as in the building and settlement associated with them. It has also considered what this landscape evidence can say about the process of industrialisation, as a sequence of social and economic change.
