Ian ORIGINALLY Parishes were contained within the County boundary. What happens is from time to time they change the COUNTY Boundary ..... this happened even in the recent past where parts of Staffs, Warwickshire and Worcestershire were "lumped together to make the "West Midlands" Perhaps I wasn't too clear in what I meant ..... probably I should have said " ..... they did NOT originally stray across county boundarys ....." Sorry for that Regards Bill -----Original Message----- From: gencmp-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gencmp-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ian Goddard Sent: 28 September 2012 11:30 To: gencmp@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Entering place names, deja-vu all over again Harrison Genealogy wrote: > The only thing about parishes is they did NOT stray across county > boundaries. Oh yes they did: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Maps/WRYParishes.gif It's pre-1974 as can be seen by the fact that Cheshire extends to border Almondbury & Penistone. Note parts of Whalley & Rochdale. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENCMP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message