Sources

Primary Sources

Lists of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century source material to be used in compiling our gazetteer. Please contact us with other suggestions!

General, National, & Regional

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Routes Highways and other Ways Rivers Travel Tolls Inns Stables River Crossings Bridges Ferries Fords Industrial & Agricultural Windmills Watermills Salt production Mining Manufacturing Settlements Markets Fairs Incorporation Schools People Carriers Carters / Wagoners Boatmen / Watermen Merchants Wheelwrights / Cartwrights / Wagonmakers

Maps

• Laurence Nowell, Atlas (includes mileage charts here) .
• Christopher Saxton, Atlas of the Counties of England and Wales (1579) (Lord Burghley's Atlas contains annotated proofs).
• John Norden, Speculum Britanniae (c. 1593-1598)
  • Essex
  • Hampshire
  • Hertfordshire
  • Middlesex
  • Surrey
  • Sussex
• William Smith
  • Warwickshire
  • Surrey
• Philip Symonson, A New Description of Kent (1596)
• John Speed, The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine (1610)
• John Ogilby, Britannia (1675)

Gazetteers, Chorographies, and Other Texts

• John Leland, Itineraries in England and Wales (c. 1538-1543)
• John Taylor, Honorable and Memorable Foundations (1636)
• William Camden, Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (1607) (online here)
• William Harrison, Description of Britain [DATE?]
• John Norden, Speculum Britanniae [DATE?]
  • Numerous counties, either published or unpublished
• Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall [DATE?]
• William Lambarde, The Perambulation of Kent (1596)
• Thomas Westcote, A View of Devonshire in 1630
• Thomas Jenner, A Book of the Names of all Parishes, Market Towns, Villages, Hamlets, and Smallest Places in England and Wales (1657)

Legal Records

• Quarter Sessions
• Probate Registries
• Star Chamber Depositions
• Recognizances of Inn Keepers, etc.

State/Ecclesiastical Surveys

• Customs Ports (1565)
• Anti-Piracy (1565)
• Compton Census (1676)

County & Local

For example, Manorial and other Hundredal Court Records.

• Anglesey
• Bedfordshire
• Berkshire
• Brecknockshire
• Buckinghamshire
• Caernarfonshire
• Cambridgeshire
• Cardiganshire
• Carmarthenshire
• Cheshire
• Cornwall
• Cumberland
• Denbighshire
• Derbyshire
• Devon
• Dorset
• Durham
• Essex
• Flintshire
• Glamorganshire
• Gloucestershire
• Hampshire
• Herefordshire
• Hertfordshire
• Huntingdonshire
• Kent
• Lancashire
• Leicestershire
• Lincolnshire
• Merionethshire
• Middlesex
• Monmouthshire
• Montgomeryshire
• Norfolk
• Northamptonshire
• Northumberland
• Nottinghamshire
• Oxfordshire
• Pembrokeshire
• Radnorshire
• Rutland
• Shropshire
• Somerset
• Staffordshire
• Suffolk
• Surrey
• Sussex
• Warwickshire
• Westmorland
• Wiltshire
• Worcestershire
• Yorkshire

Secondary Texts

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