The future of local government . ambitiousTechnical College, much encouraged by the Ministryof Munitions during the war, at Loughborough. The Eastern Counties* contain few large the whole area lying to the east of the East Mid-land Region there are only four towns with a popula-tion of more than 50,000,^ and none of these is eitherclearly marked out, or even well suited, to be theregional capital. Cambridge, the University town ofthe Region, although it had only 40,000 inhabitantsin 1911, is far more central and easily accessible fromall parts of the area than either Norwich or Lincol

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The future of local government . ambitiousTechnical College, much encouraged by the Ministryof Munitions during the war, at Loughborough. The Eastern Counties* contain few large the whole area lying to the east of the East Mid-land Region there are only four towns with a popula-tion of more than 50,000,^ and none of these is eitherclearly marked out, or even well suited, to be theregional capital. Cambridge, the University town ofthe Region, although it had only 40,000 inhabitantsin 1911, is far more central and easily accessible fromall parts of the area than either Norwich or seems for this reason the most natural capital,although Norwich has on other grounds undeniably * Nottingham (259), Leicester (227), Derby (123), Northampton(90). * Norfolk, Suffollf, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire,Bedfordshire, North Hertfordshire, the Soke of Peterborough, andLincolnshire (except the extreme north). * Norwich (121), Ipswich (73), Lincoln (57), Yarmouth (55). 69 a t3 t-^ a; a ra 03 ^ o u fi 3 4J Q^. , CJ ;d T. [U. pton ^2 -a •3 ^ a DO T3ifi c a> O +J3 0) 4) j^ « (U •*--;« W J Vh C f^ « 5 f i-TcO « WW Ocge^ a a 5a- c 9-^ rt 0^ a o ??-> a A m pq CO

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