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• 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 Scotland.

  • Forfarshire

• 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.

• GENUKI: Administrative Areas of Scotland

  Shows ancient counties and their modern successors.

• Knowledge Base Gazetteer of Scottish Places

  Online searchable database providing the ancient county for the place plus additional information.

• Old-Maps - The Online Repository of Historic Maps

  • Gazetteer County List - Choose a County

    Organized by the counties of England, Scotland, and Wales, this site contains scanned images of historic Ordnance Survey maps dating from 1846 to 1899. Over 40,000 places are indexed alphabetically first by county and then by locality name.

• Ordnance Survey Town Plans, 1847-1895

  Over 1,900 sheets covering 62 towns in Scotland with the most detailed maps ever surveyed by Ordnance Survey.

  • Town Plan of Arbroath Surveyed: 1858

  • Town Plan of Brechin Surveyed: 1862

  • Town Plan of Dundee Surveyed: 1857-8

  • Town Plan of Dundee Surveyed: 1871-2

  • Town Plan of Forfar Surveyed: 1860-1

  • Town Plan of Kirriemuir Surveyed: 1861

  • Town Plan of Montrose Surveyed: 1861-2

• Origins.net - Scots Origins - Search by Place across Scotland

  A FREE search by place allowing users to find which parish and county in which a place is located.