Boston - The Small Town With A Big Story

 MAPS OF MEDIEVAL AND VICTORIAN & EDWARDIAN BOSTON  

Steve Johnston

Following the Norman takeover, Boston expanded rapidly as a trading centre to become one of England’s most important medieval ports after London. During Victorian and Edwardian times, it was one of the UK’s more prosperous towns due in main to its industrial innovations and enterprise that included improvements in land drainage, a new dock and the arrival of the railways.