Hi Roy Sound advice indeed One simple thing I have often used when I have come across a place I am not familiar with is to enter the place name and the single word Genuki into a search engine such as google It usually answers the initial questions if not all of them :-) Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > There seem to be newcomers here who haven't yet discovered GENUKI, > probably THE major umbrella website for all UK and Irish genealogical > research. > > The Yorkshire pages of GENUKI are a fantastic resource and should be > very high up in everyone's "favourites". Here's the URL.... > > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/