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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 Church Database

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.

GENUKI Church Database

The GENUKI church database originated as one containing the approximate location of the parishes that existed around 1837. Since then the database has had new fields added to contain additional information, many more churches have been added (in some areas), and more precise locations added where known.

GENUKI: Administrative Regions of the British Isles, UK and Ireland

GENUKI: Counties of England, Wales and Scotland prior to the 1974 Boundary Changes, UK and Ireland

GENUKI: Country and County Codes - British Isles, UK and Ireland

These codes, a superset of the the ISO 3166-2:GB and BS 6879 codes, were created by Dr Colin Chapman. A more complete list of Chapman codes, also covering the 1975-1996 counties (not used in GENUKI) is to be found in Wikipedia.

Get Mapping

UK aerial photography.

Historical and Genealogical Maps of the World, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales

Decorative hand-coloured historical and genealogical maps of England and the English counties, an Irish family name map, a Scottish clan map, a historical map of Wales.

Historical Maps - England Jurisdictions, 1851

Interactive England county maps showing parishes, districts, hundreds, probate courts, dates of parish creation, dates of extant records and much, much more.

Home Counties

Definition from Wikipedia.

Lake District

Definition from Wikipedia.

Look for places in the 1891 census

A searchable database From GENUKI. For place names in England, Wales, and the Isle of Man, this returns their 1891 Census information of County, District, Sub-District, Place, PRO piece number, and LDS Film number.

Old Maps

Maps of towns in England, Scotland and Wales as they were in the 1950s.

Old Maps of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, California, Scotland, Wales, England

Old Maps of Scotland 1859. Handsome reproductions. Also, Ireland, England, Wales.

Old Maps: Purveyors of Reproduction, Antique and Historic Maps, Antique Paintings and Prints

Reproductions of 17th Century maps of English counties, the provinces of Ireland and Wales, and of the rest of world including the East Coast of USA. This site also has interesting info on British and Irish Stately Homes, if your ancestor was well-to-do.

Old Ordnance Survey Maps for England

Commonly called the Godfrey maps, these maps are invaluable for historians and genealogists. More than a thousand titles have been issued in this major series of reprints of Old Ordnance Survey Maps of towns throughout Britain and Ireland. The Maps are highly detailed, taken from the 1/2500 plans and reprinted at about 14 inches to the mile. They cover towns in great detail, showing individual houses, railway tracks, factories, churches, mills, canals, tramways and even minutiae such as dockside cranes, fountains, signal posts, pathways, sheds, wells, etc. Each map includes historical notes on the area concerned. Many also include extracts from contemporary directories. The maps are neatly folded, often with an early photograph on the cover. The maps are ideal for local historians, transport historians, and family historians, or simply those with an interest in the town they live in or have visited.

Old Towns of England

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

Old-Maps - The Online Repository of Historic Maps

One Place Studies

A one-place-study (OPS) considers your ancestors in their physical and social context. By learning about your ancestors' neighbours and studying the historical environment and events, big and small, that took place within a village, you can gain a greater understanding of your own genealogy.

Ordnance Survey - Historical map and survey archives

Here you can find out how to buy our historical maps of Great Britain and where to find our archived maps, aerial photography and survey records of overseas British colonies.