Records Office Guide

A Guide To Information Available In Your Local Records Office

Index to Counties

The biggest headache in locating record offices is boundary changes. Records that relate to your area often end up archived in their original shire county despite the introduction of unitary authorities and metropolitan boroughs and counties.

To view the set up of Counties Prior to the changes implemented in 1974, click here:

COUNTIES OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND AND WALES PRE 1974

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

Channel Islands and Crown Dependencies including the Isle of Man

Births Marriages and Deaths

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Burial Records

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Parish Records

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Census Returns

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