Jacqui Simkins wrote: Unfortunately, there are very few maps available that show the boundaries of the ancient ecclesiastical parishes (as opposed to civil ones) and how they split over time. For those who do not know a particular area, it is very difficult to work out the churches and area each covered. ================= Dear Listers, I've been interested in the responses to Jacqui's point about the paucity of maps showing parish boundaries. I recommend the work called "Historic Parishes of England & Wales: Electronic Map - Gazetteer - Metadata" by Roger Kain and Richard Oliver, published in 2001 by the History Data Service, University of Essex (ISBN 0 9540032 0 9). The work consists of a book plus three CDs containing OS One-inch maps from the 1940s with an overlay of ecclesiastical parish boundaries. The CDs also contain a spreadsheet of all the Emglish and Welsh ecclesiastical parishes and their subdivisions. The work is now out of print, but you may be able to access a copy via second hand bookshops or via your local library's Inter Library Loan scheme. Kind regards, John -------------------- John Ball, Brecon, Mid-Wales E-mail: john@jlb2011.co.uk Website: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk/

Hi John Does maps.familysearch.org with the os overlay not give accurate enough details ? Mike Fisher in Droitwich my family tree http://mjfisher.tribalpages.com On 17/10/2012 10:43, John Ball wrote: > Jacqui Simkins wrote: > Unfortunately, there are very few maps available that show the boundaries of > the ancient ecclesiastical parishes (as opposed to civil ones) and how they > split over time. For those who do not know a particular area, it is very > difficult to work out the churches and area each covered. > ================= > > Dear Listers, > > I've been interested in the responses to Jacqui's point about the paucity of > maps showing parish boundaries. > > I recommend the work called "Historic Parishes of England & Wales: > Electronic Map - Gazetteer - Metadata" by Roger Kain and Richard Oliver, > published in 2001 by the History Data Service, University of Essex (ISBN 0 > 9540032 0 9). The work consists of a book plus three CDs containing OS > One-inch maps from the 1940s with an overlay of ecclesiastical parish > boundaries. The CDs also contain a spreadsheet of all the Emglish and Welsh > ecclesiastical parishes and their subdivisions. > The work is now out of print, but you may be able to access a copy via > second hand bookshops or via your local library's Inter Library Loan scheme. > > Kind regards, > > John > -------------------- > John Ball, Brecon, Mid-Wales > E-mail: john@jlb2011.co.uk > Website: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk/ > > ------------------------------- > List archives are at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/WARWICK > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Mike, To be honest, I haven't yet made much use of maps.familysearch.org I've just been exploring it now and although I'm impressed, I think I still prefer the Kain and Oliver's "electronic maps". Four reasons in favour of Kain and Oliver (K&O) immediately spring to mind: 1. The K&O survey includes Welsh counties and parishes (living in Wales, I spend a lot of time on Welsh family history research). 2. the K&O maps clearly identify the names of each parish and its subdivisions. 3. the K&O gazetteer indicates the source(s) of the information about the parish and hamlet boundaries (e.g. tithe maps, 1851 census, early OS maps, etc.) 4. The K&O maps are PDF documents, so saving the whole or parts of the maps as images is very straightforward. However, I must admit that I do like the flexibility of the FamilySearch maps, offering overlays of civil registration districts, hundreds, divisions, etc. Also the integration with the Google StreetView facility is excellent. Kind regards, John -------------------- John Ball, Brecon, Mid-Wales E-mail: john@jlb2011.co.uk Website: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Mike in Droitwich Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 6:12 PM To: warwick@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WAR] Now WAR parishes generally Hi John Does maps.familysearch.org with the os overlay not give accurate enough details ? Mike Fisher in Droitwich my family tree http://mjfisher.tribalpages.com