Administrative Units Search
Our administrative gazetteer combines:
- Frederick Youngs' Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England (Royal Historical Society, 1979 and 1991)
- Melville Richards' Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Univ. of Wales Press, 1969)
- Richard Cheffins' Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (British Library, 1998)
- Gazetteer of Scottish Administrative Units compiled from census reports and other sources
Our gazetteer also incorporates information supplied by the Estonian and Swedish National Archives,
plus additional research at the University of Portsmouth.
- Searches can include asterisks ('*') as wild cards to
match characters you are not sure of, or you can try including names that 'sound like' the name you are
looking for. Wild card and 'sound alike' searches can return very large numbers of matches, so consider
specifying the level, type or status of the unit.
- Searching here by nation or county is smart: it understands the polyhiearchic structure
of our underlying database.
For example, if you specify a county, parishes will be returned if they were within the
Ancient, Registration or Administrative County of that name.
- Searching using wild cards is inevitably much slower than searching for a precise name.
Please be patient.
- For details of our typology, see the Administrative Units Typology.
- If you cannot find what you are looking for here, try our
Descriptive Gazetteer, which holds the text of several 19th century gazetteers.
A vision of Britain through time