HOW TO INVESTIGATE PARISH BOUNDARIES
This is a step-by-step guide on how to begin to research your local parish boundaries. Not all of the sources we have used during the project are covered as some are only relevant to our own investigations of individual parishes.
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Research tips
- Step one: identifying boundaries
- Sources:
- Published maps
- modern Ordnance Survey maps
- historical Ordnance Survey maps
- Ordnance Survey boundary records
- Manuscript plans
- tithe surveys
- enclosure surveys
- estate maps
Step two: asking questions
- Sources:
- Anglo-Saxon charters
- Place-names
- Historic Environment Records and the National Monuments Records
- Air photographs
