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[edit] Ancestry.com CitationAncestry.com. Gazetteer of England and Wales [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2003. Original data: Wilson, John Marius. The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Vol. I-II. Edinburgh, Scotland: A. Fullarton and Co., 1872. [edit] Usage TipsUse this excellent historical topographic dictionary for key information about parish, chapel, town and village jurisdictions, and information about the contiguous outlay of local habitations, chief manufacturing, industries, agriculture, existing schools, church historic structures, population statistics, and much more, in circa 1870 England and Wales. This publication is considered by many genealogists to be the foremost placename authority on 19th century England and Wales places. Catalogers at the Family History Library (FamilySearch.org) have used this publication as the placename authority on British jurisdictions. |