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A Vision of Britain Through Time

Interactive historical geographical 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.

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 Wales

From the Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World.

Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)

Scanned images of all 912 pages, all public domain.

British History Online - Maps

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 Wales.

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.

Cassini Maps - Old Maps for Genealogy, Local and Family History Research

Cassini Publishing specialises in creating historical mapping products of England and Wales that meet present-day research needs and expectations of quality. Our maps are ideal for family and local historians, students, walkers, homeowners

County-Wise | Be County-Wise and get to know the Historic Counties!

Guides, information, and activities for the 92 historic counties in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

Cronfa Ddata Enwau Lleoedd / Archif Melville Richards

Online searchable database of the place names of Wales from the University of Wales at Bangor's Place-Name Research Centre. Provides alternate historical spellings, historic references, dates, and most importantly the exact sources in which these place name references are found.

Cronfa Ddata Enwau Lleoedd / Archif Melville Richards

Online searchable database of the place names of Wales from the University of Wales at Bangor's Place-Name Research Centre. Provides alternate historical spellings, historic references, dates, and most importantly the exact sources in which these place name references are found.

Elstead Maps (UK)

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

FamilySearch Wiki - England and Wales pre 1974

FamilySearch Wiki - Wales Maps

Frith Book Co.

Books containing photographic images from around Great Britain taken by Frith & Company beginning in the 1860s.

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

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: 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.