Paul
You wrote:
> We plan to digitise selected gazetteers and
> trade directories which will describe places at different
> periods of time in Britain. We intend, for example, to digitise
> the 6 volume 1870 _Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales_. Do
> members of the list know of other similar sources?
How about Samuel Lewis's topographical dictionaries of England,
Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
If you haven't got a copy to hand, the extract relating to the parish
of Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion, is par for the course, and can be found
at <http://www.llangynfelyn.dabsol.co.uk/mewngair.html#6>. See also
Macroom, Co Cork, at
<http://www.rickmansworthherts.freeserve.co.uk/webpage22.htm>.
Also Bartholomew's Survey Gazetter of the British Isles. The eighth
edition on my desk is dated 1932, so it's a fair bet that the seventh
edition is out of copyright.
It looks as if Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland
(1901) is already available as a CD-ROM,
<http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Genealogy_Supplies/cddata.h
tm>, if that is something to be taken into consideration in your
plans.
Yours sincerely
Stephen Benham
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Stephen Benham
Archifydd Cynorthwyol / Assistant Archivist
Adran Llawysgrifau a Chofysgrifau / Dept of Manuscripts & Records
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion SY23 3BU
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http://www.llgc.org.uk
Fy marn i yw'r uchod a nid yw o reidrwydd yn cynrychioli barn LlGC
The above is my own opinion and not necessarily that of the NLW
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