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Places
Click on the links below for information relating to Places:
IreAtlas townland database - see Irish family history
List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Ireland - see Irish family history
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
ScotlandsPlaces
Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1791-1845
Free access. From the home page just click on the login button. Vision of Britain through time A public resource with detailed historical information on places and maps, 1801 to 1901, created by the Great Britain Historical Geographical Information Systems Project. Visualising urban geographies
Gazetteers Gazetteer for Scotland
A geographical encyclopaedia which includes text from Groome's 19th century 'Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland'. Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (Samuel Lewis, 1846) Gazetteer of British place names GENUKI gazetteer Ordnance Survey place names gazetteer
Maps Addressing history (Edina and National Library of Scotland)
Digitised information from over 400 Scottish Post Office Directories, covering historical addresses from 1773 to 1912. Cassini: registration district maps
Cassini: registration district maps from the 1871 census. Charting the nation
Maps of Scotland and their associated archives 1550-1740. Multimap
Interactive map service displaying any location in map or aerial view format. National Library of Scotland
Includes digital images from the map collections (from 1560). Old maps
Landmark provides free searching by place-name or address of the earliest Ordnance Survey county series (1:10 560 scale) for Great Britain. Ordnance Survey Ireland interactive map - see Irish family history Ordnance Survey maps, one-inch, 2nd edition, Scotland, 1898-1904 Ordnance Survey maps, 6 inch to the mile, Scotland, 1840s-1880s
Free access. From the home page just click on the login button. Vision of Britain through time A public resource with detailed historical information on places and maps, 1801 to 1901, created by the Great Britain Historical Geographical Information Systems Project. Visualising urban geographies
Gazetteers Gazetteer for Scotland
A geographical encyclopaedia which includes text from Groome's 19th century 'Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland'. Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (Samuel Lewis, 1846) Gazetteer of British place names GENUKI gazetteer Ordnance Survey place names gazetteer
Maps Addressing history (Edina and National Library of Scotland)
Digitised information from over 400 Scottish Post Office Directories, covering historical addresses from 1773 to 1912. Cassini: registration district maps
Cassini: registration district maps from the 1871 census. Charting the nation
Maps of Scotland and their associated archives 1550-1740. Multimap
Interactive map service displaying any location in map or aerial view format. National Library of Scotland
Includes digital images from the map collections (from 1560). Old maps
Landmark provides free searching by place-name or address of the earliest Ordnance Survey county series (1:10 560 scale) for Great Britain. Ordnance Survey Ireland interactive map - see Irish family history Ordnance Survey maps, one-inch, 2nd edition, Scotland, 1898-1904 Ordnance Survey maps, 6 inch to the mile, Scotland, 1840s-1880s
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