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A Vision of Britain Through Time

Interactive historical geographic survey of the British Isles from 1801 through 2001. Compiled from maps, statistics & historical descriptions. Place name searchable. Excellent source of information for placing ancestors in historical context of their locality.

Anquet Maps - Historical Maps

Historical UK maps for sale. Ordnance Survey 1805-1874 - 19th Century Landscapes; Ordnance Survey 1896-1904 - Victorian Landscapes; Ordnance Survey 1919-1926 - Inter-War Landscapes; Ordnance Survey 1945-1948 - Post-War Landscapes.

Arcanum Maps - The Historical Map Portal - Europe in the XIX. century

Maps of Europe in the 1800s. Includes maps of Europe, city maps, country maps, and cadastral maps.

Atlas of Britain and Ireland 1899 - Free Genealogy Tools Software

Find traditional counties with 75 FREE beautiful full-screen color antique maps at 6mi/in of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Atlas of the United Kingdom

From the Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World.

Baedeker's Old Guide Books

Featuring maps and town plans: Great Britain, 1910; London and its Environs, 1905; Spain and Portugal, 1901; The United States, 1909.

Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)

Scanned images of all 912 pages, all public domain.

British Geological Survey Maps

Cartographics

Auction Sale of 200 original items of UK local history/genealogy interest. Maps, plans, property sale particulars etc c1800-1960. Catalogue and images now online.

Cartophilia

Cartophilia holds a library of over 4,500 maps and street plans of every historic county of England and Wales in high definition, Free to download for non-commercial use under Creative Commons.

Centremaps - Online Map Store

Maps, ordnance survey maps UK online.

Chapman Country & County Codes (Pre 1974)

Compass Consulting | Historical Map Specialists | Map Sets

Historical Map Searches for sites throughout England, Scotland and Wales, including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Using Historical Map Sets clients can clearly see the previous historical land-use that has occurred on the site over the last 150 years. Historical Map Sets may also show features that might otherwise be hidden by development or vegetation.

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection - United Kingdom ^FREE

This free collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century maps of North and South America, although it also has maps from around the world. The collection dates from about 1700 to the 1950s. There are now more than 48,000 items online, with new additions added regularly.

Elstead Maps (UK)

Specialist UK-based mail-order retailer of over 50,000 maps, guides, travel books, atlases & globes.

English Counties, Parishes, etc. for Genealogists

This site does a good job of explaining some of the more mysterious organizational structures of interest to the genealogist with UK ancestors. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Gardiner's Atlas of English History (Wayback Machine)

Maps from the 1892 book A School Atlas of English History.

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

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