Can you help me regarding changes in egistration districts and Parish boundary?

Question

On a single census record it is often the case that four different place names can be mentioned - the village or town, the parish, the ecclesiastical district and the registration district. This is fine if you're familiar with the area in which you're researching but extremely difficult for unfamiliar places. In addition of course, boundaries have changed. In over 15 years of researching my family history I still haven't been able to find a website or any source whatsoever that can give me any details on them i.e. when boundaries changed, what they changed to, or even what villages were included within parishes or registration districts. Does anyone know of a website that can help me?

Answer 1

This site may go some way to helping you with boundary changes

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/...

You can find out just about anything for any county here

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Modern....

For many years I have used a book by Ray Wiggins,

it is still available from :-http://www.sog.org.uk/acatalog/General_T...

It is titled "Registration Districts" by Ray Wiggins.

- Price: £4.50

Alphabetical list of civil registration districts with details of counties, sub districts and adjacent districts, invaluable aid to civil registration.

http://www.sog.org.uk/library/intro.shtm...

Old OS (Ordnance Survey) maps are also very usefull, they show parish boundarys :o) and can often be accessed on line.

Answer 2

Discovering Parish Boundaries

This book might help.

http://www.gould.com.au/Discovering-Pari...