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: | Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | Coal Mining History Resource Centre |
Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20160305062046/http://w... |
Description: | Coal Mining History Resource Centre |
Extra Info: | An archived copy of a site that is no longer available. Most information still seems to be available, although the layout is not good in parts. Search does not work. May be slow to load. Includes picture of the mines and details of the mines rescue crews. |
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, Land Tax / Lay Subsidy, Tithe Records, Religious Lists / Records, Prisoner / Trial / Conviction / Court Records, Migrant / Emmigration Lists and Records, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Occupations / Trades / Apprentices, Other Records |
Title: | Family and Local History in Frome |
Link: | http://www.gomezsmart.myzen.co.uk/ |
Description: | Family and Local History in Frome |
Extra Info: | Various records including prisoners in Ilchester Gaol, emigrants to Victoria and more. |
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: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Other Records |
Title: | HALE Family History |
Link: | http://halefamily.net |
Description: | HALE Family History - in the West of England and South Wales |
Extra Info: | Click on 'much more' for histories, trade directories and more. |
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, Hearth / Window Tax, Land Tax / Lay Subsidy, Tithe Records, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers, Military Lists, Muster Rolls etc., Poor Rate, Other Records, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | History of Some areas of Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire |
Link: | https://www.freshford.com/ |
Description: | History of Some areas of Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire |
Extra Info: | History of Charmouth, Freshford, Bradford on Avon, Bath, Limpley Stoke and Hinton Charterhouse. Provides a wide collection of maps, photographs and other sources for local history and genealogy. |
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: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Newspapers, Photographs / Pictures |
Title: | The Genealogy of the Cotswolds and Surrounds |
Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20150406062544/http://w... |
Description: | The Genealogy of the Cotswolds and Surrounds |
Extra Info: | An archived copy of a site that is no longer active. Most of the information still seems to be avaialble to view, but the photographs of te churches are not. Go to parish pages for transcriptions. The information for each parish varies some. |
Classification: | Commercial / Trade Directories, Street Directories / Gazetteers / Maps, Tithe Records, Poll / Electoral / Voters Registers |
Title: | Timsbury Community Website |
Link: | https://www.timsbury.org.uk/ |
Description: | Timsbury Community Website |
Extra Info: | Lots of information about the history of the village. |
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: | 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 Somerset |
Link: | https://ukbmd.org.uk/reg/som.html |
Description: | Civil registration districts in Somerset 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 Somerset |
Link: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civil_parish... |
Description: | List of parishes in Somerset 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 Somerset |
Link: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_So... |
Description: | List of places in Somerset provided by Wikipedia. |
Extra Info: | Information on place names with links to information pages about the place. |
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