ABSTRACT
This chapter will deal with the growth of the iron and steel industry in Wales, Shropshire, South Staffordshire (‘The Black Country’), Yorkshire and Derbyshire, and finally Scotland. The history of the three districts, Cleveland, the North-West, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire, where, since 1850 to the present day, the British steel industry has adjusted its centre of gravity in a new concentration of industry, are treated in the chapter ‘The New Factors of Industrial Location’.
