You may click on the right-hand map below of the Eastern Counties and Unitary Authorities of Eastern England or on the text links to detailed information about each individual county or unitary authority area within the Eastern Counties.
The Eastern Counties of England have been predominately agricultural since Neolithic times having been largely bypassed by the Industrial Revolution. From Viking times the wealth of the region, known as Anglia, has been derived from the rich farm and fenlands. The Fens where later drained with dykes and windmills and the resulting additional farmland became some of the most productive in the world. The remains of the windmills and of the later steam powered pumping engines still dot the landscape.
In more modern times a new prosperity has come to the Eastern Counties with many of the world's largest Information Technology companies moving into an area, around the Universities of Cambridge, that has become known as Silicon Fen. As a result of the high wages offered by these businesses property values have increased dramatically but so has the traffic!
