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A Key to English Place-Names

Guide to the interpretation of the names of England's cities, towns and villages, drawing on the work of the English Place-Name Society.

AntiqueMapsUK.com

Range of antique maps specialising in good value items from c1900.

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 England.

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.

Genmaps - Lancashire Old Maps

Gores' Directory of Liverpool 1829

Greater Manchester Gazetteer

Greater Manchester Maps

Lancashire Maps

Merseyside Maps

Old Ordnance Survey Maps for England

Old Towns of England - Lancashire Towns

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

Old-Maps - The Online Repository of Historic Maps

Parish Search

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.

Pigot & Dean's New Directory of Manchester, Salford, etc. for 1821-1822

Slater's Directory of the Following Important English towns: Birmingham, Bristol, Derby, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield and West Bromwich 1847

Your Old Maps Online - Lancashire

Scans of original maps & etchings.