If you would like to know more about the early development of your town or village
Visit the Sites & Monuments Record (SMR)
Ask for details of:-
- archaeological sites e.g. hillforts, Roman towns, castles, abbeys
- aerial photographs to help look at the development of the landscape
- historic building records to trace the development of churches, houses and other structures
- early maps to see how place names may indicate settlement patterns
Visit your local museum
- objects from early settlements
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If you are interested in development in the 19th and 20th centuries
Visit your local library
- large scale maps to show the changing street layout
- trade directories to discover businesses in a specific street
- electoral registers to see who lived at a given address
- census returns to get information on members of a household
- old newspapers to look at people and events
- aerial photographs
Visit the SMR
- structural details of industrial and other buildings where they have been archaeologically recorded
Visit the archives for:
- maps
- electoral registers
- old photographs
Visit your local museum for:
