Re: [POWYS] How to find farms listed on 1851 census
by Martin Briscoe via (W8)
NLS are adding 25" maps of England and Wales, it's spreading out from the
South East of England. They do have coverage of England and Wales in the
1:25000 from around the 1950s.
If an area has been completely built over then often farm names survive as
the names of areas of the town.
If you have access to one of the newspaper archives then it is always worth
a search there as you can sometimes get clues, similarly search Google Books
to see if the farm name appears in the text.
I don't think they have any of Powys but the Digital Archive Association
have some of North Wales.
http://digitalarchives.co.uk/
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
martin(a)mbriscoe.me.uk
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To: Robert Price; powys(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [POWYS] How to find farms listed on 1851 census
Hi Robert,
I've had some success in finding farms by following the track of the census
enumerator. If you can find some farms along his/her route you can often
interpolate from the neighbouring farms that the enumerator went to where
the farm you are looking for is even if it isn't named on the map or the
name has changed or got mangled. If it doesn't work on a given census you
can try others too.
Since the Old Maps website went through its various unhelpful "improvements"
I tend to use the OS Six Inch England and Wales maps on the National Library
of Scotland Website: http://maps.nls.uk/series/index.html
Coverage is great and the navigation arrangements outstanding. No search on
farm names, though. That would be too easy.