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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
	The 3 books and the CDroms
2 CD ROM version © produced by Colin Hinson

Ordering information: please see separate page.

• Payment can be made either by Sterling Cheque drawn on a UK bank, or via

This Gazetteer is by far the best I have ever seen, and covers the whole of all the countries in the British Isles (this includes the whole of Ireland), though there are no maps.

Here is a review of this CD by Angela Petyt.

There are just over 2,700 gazetteer pages contained on these 2 CD roms, along with 130 pages of Appendices.

• The appendices contain:
  • A tabular view of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (population, areas, births, deaths, marriages etc.).
  • Summary of the Poor-Law returns for 1866-7.
  • Digest of the Census returns for 1861

Here is a sample page from this gazetteer. The file is a large (243Kbyte) gif file, so you will be able to view it on your web browser.

The data on this CD ROM consists of pictures (graphics files) of every page, generated by scanning the original books. The scans of the text pages are not photographic images, but are black and white 2 bit images (i.e. you see either black or white, with no greys) which means that when printed you obtain a page which is very close to the original. There are no plain text files of the books on this CD ROM. All files are pdf files (Adobe Acrobat), and readers for this format are included on the CDs (for both PC and Mac).

A review of this CDrom by Angela Petyt:

"This two-CD set contains a Gazetteer of the whole of Great Britain and Ireland, published in 1868. It is certainly the most outstanding and comprehensive gazetteer I have ever consulted. The scanned pages are of high-quality and the CDs are easy to navigate. There is an enormous amount of information about every county, city, town, village and hamlet. Geography, economy, transport, religion, education and social facilities are but a few of the topics covered in each entry. In addition, the appendices feature fascinating information about population statistics, agriculture, occupations, the Poor Law, and an abstract of the 1861 census returns. This gazetteer is an essential work of reference for any historian, and gives a unique insight into mid-Victorian life".