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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.
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Online searchable database holds the full text of three 19th century descriptive gazetteers with a total of over 90,000 entries.
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Guide to Census Reports: Great Britain 1801-1966
Outlines the history of the census & describes how coverage of various topics has developed.
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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.
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From the Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World.
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Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)
Scanned images of all 912 pages, all public domain.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Specialist UK-based mail-order retailer of over 50,000 maps, guides, travel books, atlases & globes.
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Books containing photographic images from around Great Britain taken by Frith & Company beginning in the 1860s.
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Gardiner's Atlas of English History (Wayback Machine)
Maps from the 1892 book A School Atlas of English History.
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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.
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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.
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GENUKI: Administrative Areas of Wales
Shows ancient counties and their modern successors.
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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.
