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Some two hundred years after Boldon Book, the townships of Bishopwearmouth, Tunstall, Ryhope and Burdon, together with the borough of Sunderland, a

The fortuitous survival of two great surveys, Boldon Book, and Bishop Hatfield's survey, drawn up some two hundred years apart, has provided us wit

The proximity of the river Wear, the mouth of which provided the only substantial harbour between Hartlepool and South Shields, was crucial to the

Many hundred Wills were transcribed for the Penwith Project by volunteers who completed their work using specially designed 'slips'.  Joanna Mattin

Mousehole place names

During the intensive research into Newlyn and Mousehole Dr Joanna Mattingly made many friends.  On one of her visits to gather yet more information

Tithe maps were drawn up when tithe payments (a clergy-support tax of a tenth of all parish produce including fish) were commuted or changed to equal

This scroll now in the Bristol and West Progressive synagogue has a remarkable provenance.

This book contains the names of the various Welsh traders (mostly women) who traded on the Welsh Back in Bristol in the eighteenth and early ninete

Later medieval Bristol was one of England’s three largest cities, and its most important provincial port, so it is not surprising that it attracted