England

English Towns and Villages

Mainland

• Historic counties of England

The administrative boundaries of England have changed several times over the years. This article from Wikipedia explains it all from the 9th Century until today.

• [http://uk-genealogy.org.uk/index.html UK Genealogy Archives This site is mainly UK genealogy, but especially the West Country (Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Cornwall, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.

Bedfordshire	Berkshire	Buckinghamshire	Cambridgeshire
Cheshire	Cornwall	Cumberland	Derbyshire
Devon	Dorset	Durham	Essex
Gloucestershire	Hampshire	Herefordshire	Hertfordshire
Huntingdonshire	Kent	Lancashire	Leicestershire
Lincolnshire	LONDON (Middlesex)	Norfolk	Northamptonshire
Northumberland	Nottinghamshire	Oxfordshire	Rutland
Shropshire	Somerset	Staffordshire	Suffolk
Surrey	Sussex	Warwickshire	Westmoreland
Wiltshire	Worcestershire	Yorkshire

Metropolitan Counties

• Metropolitan County More information about the creation of these administrative areas from Wikipedia.

Greater Manchester	Merseyside	South Yorkshire
Tyne and Wear	West Midlands	West Yorkshire

Islands

Isles of Scilly	Isle of Wight

National Links

• Joiner Marriage Index Marriage index for the North of England and Hertfordshire, pre 1837, with over 1,000,000 marriages.

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