Index of Places in England and Wales

INDEX OF PLACES IN ENGLAND AND WALES

These pages are only intended to be used in conjunction with the list of Registration Districts in England and Wales 1837-1974

For each place listed, this index shows the county and registration district in which it was situated between 1st July 1837 and 31st March 1974, at which latter date the districts were considerably altered.

Please note that this is not intended to be a comprehensive gazetteer of place-names, and that only Civil Parishes or Townships named in the General Register Office's published lists are included. These often differed from the ancient parishes in existence at the start of the 19th century.

The coverage of these listings has now been extended up to 1974, from its previous termination date of 1930. Owing to the extensive changes to districts and civil parishes which took place in the 1930s, the place-name index now runs to over 27,000 entries, and is now only available as a PDF file (1.3 Mb). The Adobe Acrobat Reader or similar viewer is required.

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