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1886 Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire

A Key to English Place-Names

Guide to the interpretation of the names of England's cities, towns and villages, drawing on the work of the English Place-Name Society.

AntiqueMapsUK.com

Range of antique maps specialising in good value items from c1900.

British History Online - Historical Geography

Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust. Historic Ordnance Survey maps in 1:10,560 scale for each county in England.

Cheshire Maps

e-Mapping Victorian Cheshire: Cheshire's Tithe Maps Online

Search the Tithe Maps and Tithe apportionament schedules to find where ancestors lived, what land the owned or occupied and what use they made of the land they lived on. Includes all Tithe Maps for the pre-1974 Cheshire boundary. Almost 500 Cheshire tithe maps are now available online. Together with the information recorded in tithe apportionments, they are a unique record of land ownership, occupancy and use in Cheshire 150 years ago.

Gazetteer of British Place Names

Contains the ancient or geographical County of over 50,000 place names in Britain along with modern administrative areas information.

Genmaps - Cheshire Old Maps

Greater Manchester Maps

Merseyside Maps

Old Ordnance Survey Maps for England

Old Towns of England - Cheshire Towns

Contemporary descriptions of British towns written in 1836. Also old maps for sale.

Old-Maps - The Online Repository of Historic Maps

Parish Search

Online searchable database of the geographic location of churches, registration districts etc in the UK, with details of their founding and closing dates. From GENUKI.

Your Old Maps Online - Cheshire

Scans of original maps & etchings.