Harrison Genealogy wrote: > 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 ....." Saddleworth was part of the West Riding until the recent past of 1974. It was part of Yorkshire wappentake (Agbrigg & Morley) & I recall reading that Domesday assessed the woodlands of Quick with those of Holme (goodness knows why, Holme's cross-Pennine connections are with Mottram in Cheshire, the obvious connection for Quick would have been Marsden). So the COUNTY boundary rearrangement is late. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Rochdale/SaddleworthHistory.html explains how it came to be attached to Rochdale but http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/CBW/WRY/Saddleworth.html suggests that its original connection was with Yorkshire. So we're both wrong. It was the PARISH boundary which changed. Ian -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk