ABSTRACT
England in 1560 was a world in itself, with its own Alps, its own Holland, and almost every other variety of country. Celtic tongues were still heard in Cornwall and in the mountains of Wales. All variations of soil, climate and terrain tended to be focused and localized in distinct geographical regions. A comparative advantage in corn-growing was shared by most of the husbandmen of eastern England, and in grass-growing by most of those in the west. The character of a country was formed largely through its livestock. As well as geographical divisions of labour, social ones developed; but these social divisions of labour grew up country by country and fell into the same geographical framework. The Chalk Country farmers bred and reared their native sheep both for themselves and for sale to the Northdown and Chiltern Countries. The vales of Blackmoor, Glastonbury, Ilminster, Glamorgan and Marshwood, and the western part of Vale of Wardour, made up the Butter Country.
