Local GVA
Inner London still highest contributor
Top 5 and Bottom 5 GVA per head of population, indexed to UK=100, 2003
Inner London contributed £113bn to the UK economy (measured as gross value added (GVA)) in 2003 (this is at current basic prices and before taking account of inflation). At £38,800 Inner London also had the highest GVA per head of population, more than double the UK average of £16,100.
Highlands and Islands had the smallest share of GVA at £4bn. Cornwall & Isles of Scilly (£10,400) West Wales & the Valleys (£10,600) and the Highlands & Islands (£11,400) had the lowest GVA per head of population in 2003.
There was nothing special about Lindsey and Northumbria at this time; they were firmly integral parts of England. This makes deductions about red-named Cornwall difficult.
This leads me to a general observation about some of the maps put here. The naming of parts seems eccentric and with no discernible principle. Which part gets named on the map seems arbitrary - as Snowdon.
On the 1595 map of Orbelius both Cornwall and Kent are marked.
It really is not possible to say that because an area is named on a map it means that at that time the area was separate from England.
...But, Abednego, there is a mountain of evidence just on this forum that Cornwall was, and IS a separate entity in some ways, just the legal records indicate that.. and the irrefutable Duchy status....
Graham, I was writing only about some of the historic medieval and Tudor (not more modern) maps and the difficulty of making firm deductions from them about the status of all the named areas on the basis of their being named in similar print. I think Snowdon, Lindsey, Northumbria, and Kent illustrate the difficulty.
My own view on the present status of Cornwall is that in 2006 it is a county of England.
Fair comment. We have been 'absorbed' into being a County I think, whether people wanted it or not..I suspect the majority at the time it happened didn't give much opposition, could be there were percieved benefits...
I take on board what our more Nationalist friends say though, about the various legal decisions in the past, some quite recent, that bow to Cornwall having a different status as a Duchy, and various historical factors that many counties do not.
Despite the bitching and slanging that happens on here, I find it generally informative and thought provoking.
Air pollution over the UK as seen from space 18 July 2006 - London, Liverpool and Birmingham experience a very high level of NO2, represented by the pink areas.
Thanks for that, 1549, disgusting isn't it? And people wonder why we don't want loads of building and an excessive population in Cornwall.... (shakes head sadly)
Coady and Abednego, remember you have to take the maps in the context of all the historic quotes and references that clearly mark Cornwall out; its Duchy status today and the fact that it would have been a region with a totally different language.
You will also note that Cornubia or some other form is on all the maps when kent and snowdon etc are not.
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'Remote nurse' aids home patients
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