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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
Travel
River Crossings
Industrial & Agricultural
Settlements
People
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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- Numerous counties, either published or unpublished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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