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Ancestry.com - Search Reference Materials & Finding Aids Records

Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription.

Bedfordshire Archives - How to Interpret Deeds - A Glossary

Family Deeds

A free family history website with full name index and place index using genealogical information from old deeds & documents for the UK. Deeds have summary of property and information on parties and other people named in them including information from Wills etc. The Family Deeds Project is a non-commercial voluntarily run family history project which many people have said has helped to break down brick walls as the information in the deeds is often not found elsewhere.

Land Registry - Land Registry for England and Wales

Return of Owners of Land, 1873

This lists names of owners who owned more than an acre of land, address, extent of lands, and rental.

Return of Owners of Land, 1873 (Wikipedia)

Tenures of Land and Customs of Manors

Details, including full index by surname, for new edition of Tenures of Land and Customs of Manors. First published in 1679, this book gives details of land tenure (who owned what pieces of land) in England and Wales, from Middle Ages onwards.

The Domesday Book Online

The National Archives - Manorial Documents Register

The Manorial Documents Register (MDR) is the official index to English and Welsh manorial records and provides brief descriptions of documents and details of their locations in public and private hands.