Hi Martin: As I recall it, I adjusted the size of the various parish maps, expanding those for small parishes. This will complicate the map reconstitution scheme that you suggest. (I in fact had to do some stitching together of maps in order to produce some of the parish maps - see for example - Alwington - since what I was starting from was about half a dozen regional maps, each covering a large number of parishes, and of course many parishes straddled the edges of these regional maps. But at least they were all on the same scale.) Cheers Brian On 5 Jun 2016, at 19:59, Martin Beavis via <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Diana - If you merely want to merge five overlapping parish maps from GENUKI, then it's a DIY job: (1) Right click on each parish map and Save Image As, which will save them to your hard drive as gif files; then use any imaging cropping software to lose the black box bordering each map. (2) Load the five image files into a photographic panorama software that can handle 2D arrays, such as Serif Panorama Plus (free Starter Edition) or Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor, also free, better resolution, best for photos) or Windows Live Photo Gallery (which comes with Windows 7, after converting gif to jpg). (3) Stitch the images automatically using default settings, do not bother to crop the jagged corners, save the "panorama" image as gif or jpg. That will give you the same basic image as the rather fuzzy England & Wales Jurisdictions 1851 on FamilySearch but with clearer detail. GENUKI is probably licenced to use the individual parish images but not to repackage them, so your compilation should be for your private personal use and not distributed or published without permission of the copyright owners. The original OS map, and others, albeit without parish boundaries, are on the NLS website. The panorama method works for any overlapping maps - but enough of that - this is not a software discussion forum. Don't bother trying to register for access via the UK Data Archive. I did that a year ago - they don't make it easy for non-academic personal users to justify their use of the data and my eventual login gave access to very little of any genealogical interest. I've just tried to download the Historic Parishes, was asked to explain why in at least 30 words, then immediately told that "These data are only available to users in higher or further education for not-for-profit purposes." This list has previously touched on the local mobility of labour and marriage partners in rural Devon (though I can't remember when). As I recall, listers commented that our ancestors rode and walked much longer distances than we present-day softies might expect, that parish boundaries were quite porous, that an outlying farm or hamlet might worship in the nearest church of an adjacent parish, and economic and social activities centred around the market towns. Hills and rivers were not so much barriers between towns and villages as the topographical features that determined their locations and the most conveniently passable routes between them. So if you're looking at a small area it might be relevant to include the market towns as well. And different factors might be relevant if your ancestors were nonconformist rather than Anglican. Regards - Martin Beavis -----Original Message----- From: Diana Stevens via Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2016 7:57 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [DEV] Historic Parishes of England and Wales Thanks Michael, Paul, Brian & Elizabeth for your suggestions. I just want a print/image that shows the terrain with the parish boundaries marked on it. The GENUKI maps are great, I hoped the authors might offer a print service. Distances don't mean much if there is a mountain or river in the way. Its nice to be able to see the place names, roads etc. The LDS maps are OK, I've used them before but the background detail is fuzzy. I have plenty of maps of the area including Parish Maps and an old OS Map that I bought in 1996 at the Kentisbeare General Store (once run by Samuel Ackland, a distant cousin) when we kept getting lost in the lanes. Regards Diana --------------------------- ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> PHONE = +44 191 208 7923 FAX = +44 191 208 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell