New Forest is part of the district, south of the fictional town Helstone in North and South. In the novel, New Forest is the place where Margaret and her brother, Frederick, had spent many days playing through the park. Hampshire itself is the largest county in southwest England, where the port Southampton (another setting within the novel) sits. Hampshire has 15 national parks, including New Forest, meaning the county isn't just known for Southampton's port trades, but also its nature and old trails that weave through the county. New Forest Park is known for its odd parts of the park, including the graves of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Alice Hargreaves. It also has rare creatures including the Sand Lizard and the Wild Gladiolus. It also holds pannage, which is domestic pigs released into the park to eat nuts. In North and South, these...

Oxford is a place that is just alluded to in North and South. It's where Mr. Hale went to school and where his old friend from school, Mr. Bell, lives. This place sort of represents Mr. Bell, who is the one who suggests to Mr. Hale that he and his family should move to Milton in the first place. 

In the early to mid 1800s, people were starting to question the practicality of studying at Oxford, while Oxford pushed back against this idea that the focus of study needed to be moved away from more philosophical study. In North and South, the question of whether or not educational study is worthwhile, especially in a place like Milton, gets brought up a lot. Mrs. Thornton doesn't understand why Mr. Thornton cares to take tutoring lessons, and people vary on their opinions toward Mr. Hale as a tutor because that job doesn't mean much in Milton. People respect him, but at the same time know there isn't a place for philosophy to thrive there. Oxford at this time...

Similiar to Burnely this town is associated with cotton production through out the 1800's. This picture shows modern day Liverpool. Both Liverpool and Burnely were connected through the Liverpool-Leeds canal and were towns focused largely on merchandise creation and trade. This of course being a large part of the setting and problem in the Book, "the North and South". This would have been your average town with strikes similiar in th ebook as it worked a lot with cotton and other machinery. Pollution would have been very high. Liverpool however was more of the import town that received the raw cotton and then sent it else where like Burnely.

Again it is very useful to understand the setting and time period of the book. this would have been one of the bigger towns around. I found that as much as 25% of the population here would have been Irish, this could have been a big source for Irish...

Oxford street is one of the busiest streets in London . It is a shopping destination to various well known brands. The place appears in North and South when the coach heads to Milton he most likely came across this street. 

It is well known to be a high priced shopping destination that maybe in the 1800's was one of the biggest markets in London were people did their trades. The street was completed in 1825 and was one of the first devolpments in UK. There are many events were held on this strret such as yearly festival and fashion and design month. 

Knowing about this place helps me understand the novel north and south because back then this was one of the first devolpments were churches are houses were getting built , therefore it creates a civilization and with the industrial revolution shop opened and selling and trading goods.