Historic County(ies)

Over the past couple of hundred years the county lines of Britain have changed many times.  A house that was in Oxfordshire in the 18th century could have been in Berkshire in the 19th century, and then back to Oxfordshire in the 20th.  If you think the house for which you're searching may have been in a different county in the past than it is today, this is the field in which to search for past county locations.

This is also the field to use when searching for a county whose name has changed, e.g., search here for Dorsetshire (now called Dorset).

This field also contains different names that the same county goes by, or  regions that contain subsections, e.g., Perthshire is a subsection of Tayside.

Please remember that this database is a work-in-progress and that many, many houses have yet to have historic county information entered.

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