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Where exactly did your ancestor live their everyday life, walking the lanes, working the fields they ploughed, or building the towns that shaped their world? The Phillimore Atlas and Index allows you to trace those places across England, Wales, and Scotland. Its detailed parish maps reveal boundaries, settlements, streams, railways, and more, helping you pinpoint the precise parish your ancestor belonged to. Use Findmypast’s deep‑zoom viewer to explore every feature, search by map name or individual parish, and open Extra Materials to view all maps that include your parish, plus the index page where it appears. Delve deeper into your ancestry with one essential reference that uncovers limitless discoveries.
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This volume brings together detailed county maps for England and Wales, along with regional parish maps for Scotland, giving you a vivid visual guide to the places your ancestors once knew. Within these pages, you’ll find:
• Parish boundaries
• Townships, chapelries and hamlets
• Adjacent parishes
• Key geographical features
• Colour‑coded probate jurisdictions
• Starting dates of surviving registers
Most English and Welsh counties include two maps—a parochial map and a topographical map—while Scotland’s parochial coverage is organised by region.
To expand your search, use the Extra Materials feature at the bottom of each map to view other maps that include your parish, along with the index page where it appears.
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Delve deeper into your family’s past with maps that reveal the very landscapes your ancestors once walked that shaped their daily lives. Published by Phillimore & Co. in 1984, this third edition brings together England and Wales and, for the first time, expands to include Scotland. The maps were produced by the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (IHGS), with work beginning as early as 1959, and edited by IHGS’s first trustee Cecil Humphrey Smith. They depict the ancient, pre1832 Church of England parish boundaries—before Victorian revisions reshaped the map.
The publication carries forward the legacy of William Phillimore Watts Stiff, the Nottingham born lawyer turned publisher who dedicated his life to preserving parish records and advancing British family history.
Maps included
Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
Central Wales
Cheshire
Cornwall
Cumberland
Derbyshire
Devon
Dorset
Durham
Essex
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire
Huntingdonshire
Inverness
Kent
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
London
Lothian and S E Lowlands
Middlesex
Monmouthshire
N E Scotland Elgin, Banff, Aberdeen, Kincardine
Norfolk
North Wales
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Orkney and Shetland
Oxfordshire
Perthshire and Adjoining Counties
Ross and Cromarty
Rutlandshire
S Argyll and Adjoining Counties
S W Scotland
Scotland
Shropshire
Somerset
South Wales
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex
Sutherland and Caithness
W Inverness and N Argyll
Warwickshire
Westmorland
Wiltshire
Worcestershire
Yorkshire (East Riding)
Yorkshire (North Riding)
Yorkshire (West Riding)
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Copyright in the maps, index tables and text is ultimately vested in The Trustees of the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies.
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