In a message dated 14/01/2008 14:42:11 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Does anyone know a good online (or otherwise) source that details the boundaries of any given parish in the Sunderland area? I'm particularly interested in what area was covered by St. Aidan's Church, Grangetown, or in otherwords exactly what the boundaries of Grangetown are. Original Indexes (OI) used to publish a map showing all the Sunderland etc parish boundaries. Their publications are now available from the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society (NDFHS), as their "Ancestral Indexes" series. I am not sure whether that map is still included, but you could look at the list of all the material available from the NDFHS on their web site: _www.ndfhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ndfhs.org.uk) However, as I remember it, the OI maps were quite general ones, meant to show where the parishes lay in relation to each other and not, say, which parish a particular street was in. Another approach might be to take a detailed look at any of the censuses, noting the descriptions of each enumeration district and which parish it lay within. Parish boundaries did alter somewhat as the 19th century progressed and new parishes kept being formed. Geoff Nicholson