Thank you Jeff for that link. I had fun looking at the parish boundaries in Berkshire, where I grew up, as well as in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. It's the discontinuities that are so surprising: some parishes had bits scattered here, there, and everywhere. Best wishes, Seán On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Jeff Coleman via <glamorgan@rootsweb.com> wrote: > It is not often that I find a useful family history site that I have never > seen before, but today when answering a query about a place in the London > area that used to be in Surrey I came across one which seems likely to be > useful to researchers in many parts of England and Wales > > On the GENUKI Surrey page there is a useful link to a Familysearch facility > called 'English Jurisdictions in 1851' at > > http://maps.familysearch.org/#?centerLat=51.461836?centerLng=-0.138695?zoom=13 > > > If you put in the name of a parish it will give you possible options and > then link to a map showing parish boundaries (as on the 'Kain and Oliver' > maps linked from GENUKI parish pages in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire) . A > box > with the tab 'jurisdictions' shows you the registration district and > diocese > this parish was in. If you use the 'Show Street Map' tab you can see what > modern places are within the old boundaries. If you use the 'Satellite' tab > you can see the nature of the landscape and degree of urbanisation > nowadays. > > Sadly, for Glamorgan and Monmouthshire the data seems to be very sketchy or > nonexistent, but the parish boundaries are there. > > If you are hunting ancestors in much of England this may be useful to see > where the places were that they came from, and what parishes were nearby. > > Try it. > > Jeff > > -- > > To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > > A web site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ > > - > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be > found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > - > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >