Street directories, gazetteers and maps help locate where our ancestors lived and show the development through the years of the villages, towns and cities.
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps |
Title: | Boyle's Court and Country Guide |
Link: | Boyle's Court and Country Guide |
Description: | Boyle's Court and Country Guide, 1811 |
Extra Info: | List people from all round the UK and Ireland and their addresses. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Post Office / Telephone Directories, Hearth / Window Tax, Land Tax / Lay Subsidy, Tithe Records, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
Title: | British History Online |
Link: | https://www.british-history.ac.uk/ |
Description: | British History Online |
Extra Info: | A variety of records and documents relating to the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps |
Title: | Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland |
Link: | Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland |
Description: | Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1894 |
Extra Info: | Volume 2-6 only (CH onwards). |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Religious Lists / Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices |
Title: | Catholic Record Society - Miscellanea Vol 4 |
Link: | http://archive.org/details/publicationscat01britgo... |
Description: | Catholic Record Society - Miscellanea Vol 4 |
Extra Info: | Online book. Includes notes on Lord Burghley's map of Lancashire 1590, Catholic chaplaincies and families in the eighteenth century, the KNIGHT family of Lincolnshire, nuns from the institute of Mary in York and more. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Other Records |
Title: | Devon County Data from Ancestry |
Link: | Devon County Data from Ancestry |
Description: | Devon County Data Collection from Ancestry |
Extra Info: | Includes Dictionaries & Almanacs for Devon and Cornwall, England 1859; Catholic History in South West England, 1857 and more. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Devon Online Parish Clerk |
Link: | https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/OPCproject |
Description: | Devon Online Parish Clerks and One-Place Studies |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Other Taxes - such as Horse Tax, Valuation Books |
Title: | Domesday Book - Online and Free |
Link: | https://opendomesday.org/ |
Description: | Domesday Book - Online and Free |
Extra Info: | The "original" census. Lists of names, places and other Domesday facts and maps. Domesday data created by Professor J.J.N. Palmer, University of Hull. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Newspapers, School / Educational Records / Alumni, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Journals / Diaries |
Title: | England Data from Ancestry |
Link: | England Data from Ancestry |
Description: | England Data Collection from Ancestry |
Extra Info: | Includes Emmigrants and Immigrants; Numerous Directories; Who's Who in the World, 1910-1911; England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892; Numerous other records |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps |
Title: | England's Gazeteer 1751 (With some Welsh Places) |
Link: | http://archive.org/details/englandsgazette03whatgo... |
Description: | England's Gazeteer 1751 (With some Welsh Places) |
Extra Info: | Online book. Includes villages that no longer exist. Also list some Welsh places. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Other Records |
Title: | Genealogical Resources and Documentation |
Link: | http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~nmfa/genealogy/gene... |
Description: | Genealogical Resources and Documentation |
Extra Info: | A variety of resources. Directories of Hertfordshire and Somerset. Maps of Devon, Gloucestershire, London, Somerset and Surrey. Various documents for Cambridge, London, Gloucestershire and Cornwall. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps |
Title: | Genmaps, Old and Interesting Maps |
Link: | http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~genmaps/genealogy/ |
Description: | Genmaps, Old and Interesting Maps |
Extra Info: | Many online maps, some as early as 1550. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Information, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Historic Churches of Great Britain |
Link: | http://www.historicchurches.co.uk/ |
Description: | Maps of locations of many Historic Churches of Great Britain |
Extra Info: | Helps you find the location of the churches where you ancestors were baptised, married or buried. Their long-term aim is to add photographs to accompany each map. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Tithe Records, Information |
Title: | Internet Archive |
Link: | http://archive.org/ |
Description: | Internet Archive |
Extra Info: | Has many scanned books. Click on texts and then search the archive. Note gazetteer and gazetteers give different results. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps |
Title: | MAPS - Know Your Place - West of England |
Link: | https://www.kypwest.org.uk/ |
Description: | MAPS - Know Your Place - West of England |
Extra Info: | Know Your Place - West of England, the digital mapping project that is putting your neighbourhood's heritage on the map. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records |
Title: | National Archives - Online Records and Indexes |
Link: | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your... |
Description: | National Archives - Online Records and Indexes (UK) |
Extra Info: | Includes prisoner photos, maps and more. Many detailed records require payment. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps |
Title: | National Library of Scotland - Online Maps |
Link: | https://maps.nls.uk/ |
Description: | Online Maps for England, Scotland and Wales |
Extra Info: | Scroll down for side by side viewer to see historic and current maps side by side for England, Scotland and Wales. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps |
Title: | National Library of Scotland - Online Maps |
Link: | https://maps.nls.uk/ |
Description: | National Library of Scotland - Online Maps |
Extra Info: | Includes town plans and estate maps for most of the UK. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Associations and Civil Officials Lists, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Plymouth Data |
Link: | https://web.archive.org/web/20130617090905/http://... |
Description: | Plymouth Data |
Extra Info: | This is an archived copy of a site that is no longer active. Most information still available. Plymouth history, including details of the hospitals, prisons, temperance halls, a who's who of Plymouth and more. Look under A-Z for contents. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Institutions / Workhouses / Hospitals etc., Register & Rent Rolls, Poor Rate, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Victoria County History - Explore England's Past |
Link: | https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county... |
Description: | Victoria County History - Explore England's Past |
Extra Info: | This site provides free access to local history materials. A variety of material, some counties covered more than others. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps |
Title: | White's - History, Gazetteer and Directory of Devon |
Link: | White's - History, Gazetteer and Directory of Devon |
Description: | White's - History, Gazetteer and Directory of Devon Including the City of Exeter, 1890 |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps |
Title: | Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales |
Link: | Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales |
Description: | Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1872 |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Information |
Title: | Registration Districts in Devon |
Link: | https://ukbmd.org.uk/reg/dev.html |
Description: | Civil registration districts in Devon since 1837 |
Extra Info: | Information on the registration districts and their changes over the years. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Information |
Title: | Wikipedia list of civil parishes in Devon |
Link: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civil_parish... |
Description: | List of parishes in Devon provided by Wikipedia. |
Extra Info: | Information on the parishes with links to information pages about the parishes. |
Classification: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Information |
Title: | Wikipedia list of places in Devon |
Link: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_De... |
Description: | List of places in Devon provided by Wikipedia. |
Extra Info: | Information on place names with links to information pages about the place. |
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