On the Breconshire List....
Noela <NoelaHarvey(a)aol.com> wrote:
I am having problems getting Parish maps of Breconshire. Can anybody
tell me if there are any good map sites online please.
Rose <roswoods(a)gil.com.au> replied:
Try
www.streetmap.co.uk or
www.multimap.com both are good sites.
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Hi Noela and Rose,
While the Streetmaps and Multimaps websites offer excellent maps of the
UK, like other modern maps they do not identify the names and boundaries
of parishes.
I use the parish maps produced by the Institute of Heraldic and
Genealogical Studies (of Northgate, Canterbury, England) which are
reproduced in Humphery-Smith (1995). However, these maps show *only* the
parish names and boundaries, and have to be used in conjunction with
conventional maps, such as those produced by the Ordnance Survey, in
order to set them in a geographical and topographical context.
Source: HUMPHERY-SMITH, Cecil (ed) 1995 "The Phillimore Atlas and Index
of Parish Registers", Phillimore & Co. Ltd. Chichester. ISBN
0-85033-950-2
I am not aware of any on-line source which offers parish maps. If anyone
knows of such a website, please let inform the list; it would be a
godsend!
Regards,
John
Yes - "John the Map" is back!! :o)
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