A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
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www.workhouses.org.uk is dedicated to the workhouse -- its buildings, its inmates, its staff and administrators, and even its poets... This site includes pictures and maps showing the workhouses created by Poor Law units.
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The GeoNames geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over 10 million geographical names and consists of over 8 million unique features whereof 2.8 million populated places and 5.5 million alternate names. All features are categorized into one out of nine feature classes and further subcategorized into one out of 645 feature codes.
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Wikipedia is 'the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit'. Wikipedia contains pages for most towns and vilages in Britain, and our web site tries to link you to them, but you must decide for yourself whether you can rely on the information you find there. Many of the 'village' pages contain only 'stub articles', which you can add to. We suggest that pages which give sources for particular statements are more reliable than pages which simply have a long reference list at the end, or no references to sources at all.
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UK and Ireland Genealogy:The aim of GENUKI is to serve as a comprehensive "virtual reference library" of genealogical information that is of particular relevance to the UK & Ireland. It is organised so as to make it easy to find what information on what topics is available online related to given geographical localities (even down to parish level). It is a noncommercial service, provided by an ever-growing group of volunteers in cooperation with the Federation of Family History Societies.
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Founded in 1899 and originally dedicated to Queen Victoria, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England's places and people from earliest times to the present day. Based at the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London since 1932, the VCH is written by historians working in counties across England.
These pages are available: The parish of Preston Townships - Preston Townships - Ribbleton Townships - Grimsargh and Brockholes Townships - Elston Townships - Fishwick Townships - Broughton Townships - Haighton Townships - Barton Townships - Lea, Ashton, Ingol and Cottam |
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