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Cumberland & Westmoreland 1834 Pigot's Directory
Published:  1834
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

Set out in alphabetical order and fully searchable this is an easy way to find ancestors and to discover more about their lives.    

Price:  £9.79





Maps - Vol. 5 - Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland & Westmorland
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

An incredibly useful resource! Really high quality digitised maps that you can zoom in and in to see the finest detail.    

Price:  £9.79





Northern Counties 1855 Combined Slater's Directory
Published:  1855
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

CHESHIRE, CUMBERLAND, LANCASHIRE & WESTMORLAND Includes Cumberland, Lancashire (with Liverpool and Manchester) and Westmoreland, all of the advertisements and beautiful county maps.    

Price:  £16.17





The Gentleman's Magazine Library 1731-1868, Warwickshire, Westmoreland & Wiltshire
Published:  1891
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

The original Gentleman's Magazine contained articles on a vast array of subjects, including lots of wonderful topographical pieces. In 1891 George Gomme republished all of these topograhical articles but edited and indexed them into county specific order. Each of Gomme's works contains between two and four separate counties. An absolute goldmine of information about the county, its people and its places.    

Price:  £12.13





The Lanercost Cartulary (Cumbria County Record Office MS DZ/1)
Author:  John M. Todd
Published:  1997
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Also printed as Volume XI in the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society's Record Series. An introduction provides the historical background to the priory (which was founded c. 1169 by Robert I de Vaux), its patrons and the economy of Gilsland. Detailed information on the making, content, history and transcripts of the cartulary is also provided, as are sections on the marginal coats of arms and drawings and the Barony of Gilsland. The cartulary is in fifteen parts.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44060-3

Price:  £40.00





The Story of Some English Shires
Author:  Rev. Mandell Creighton
Published:  1897
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

Wonderful historical accounts of these English counties: Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire.    

Price:  £15.11





Thomas Denton: A Perambulation of Cumberland, 1687-8, including descriptions of Westmorland, the Isle of Man and Ireland
Author:  Angus J. L. Winchester
Published:  2003
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd

This volume prints for the first time the 'perambulation' of Cumberland compiled by the lawyer, Thomas Denton, for Sir John Lowther of Lowther in 1687-8. Denton's manuscript provides the most detailed surviving description of the county in the seventeenth century.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44062-7

Price:  £50.00





Westmorland 1820 Poll Book
Published:  1820
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

The Poll for Knights of the Shire to Represent the County of Westmorland. To be entitled to vote in the general election for Parliament, people (males only!) had to be a freeholder owning a house or land. This book contains lists of all of the voters, with their place of residence, place of the freehold, and the candidates for which they voted. There was no secret ballot in those days!    

Price:  £9.79





Westmorland 1828-9 Pigot's Directory (with map)
Published:  1829
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

A very early and rare directory which covers the market towns and principal villages of the county (Please note that smaller villages and hamlets are not included). The descriptons of each place are excellent with lots of details about schools, hospitals, churches and other institutions plus detailed histories and directories of the nobility, gentry, clergy and classified directories of tradespeople. Also included is an excellent county map. The places included in this directory are; Ambleside, Appleby, Brough, Burton and Holme, Kendal, Kirkby Lonsdale, Kirkby Stephen, Milnthorpe (with Heversham and Beetham), Orton, Ravenstone Dale, Shap.    

Price:  £9.79





Westmorland 1834 Pigot's Directory
Published:  1834
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

An excellent early directory for the county, describing each place and its facilities, churches, post, carriers and coaches, etc., plus comprehensive listings in each place of its inhabitants with trades.    

Price:  £9.79





Westmorland 1855 Slater's Directory
Published:  1855
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

A superb and very comprehensive directory of Westmorland. Each place is described in great detail and includes lists of gentry and clergy plus those 'ordinary' people with trades. This was part of a much larger directory of The Northern Counties of Cheshire, Cumberland, Lancashire and Westmorland, with Liverpool and Manchester. Archive CD Books have split the book (not literally!) into sections in order to keep the cost of individual counties' CD's to a minimum. The whole book is available on one CD, see below for details.    

Price:  £9.79





Westmorland 1858 Post Office Directory
Published:  1858
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

   

Price:  £9.79





Westmorland 1873 Returns of Owners of Land
Published:  1873
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

Lists every person in the county who owned 1 acre of land or more, with name, place, extent of land and its value.    

Price:  £8.94





Westmorland 1897 Kelly's Directory (with map)
Published:  1897
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

Excellent and very comprehensive. Each town, village and hamlet is described with information about the churches, schools, hospitals and institutions. Each place also lists private residents and commercial traders. Includes a court directory of private residents, classified trades directory plus an incredibly detailed map of the county. Kindly loaned by The Family record Centre (PRO) in London.    

Price:  £12.13





Westmorland 1921 Kelly's Directory
Published:  1921
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

Each place in the county has an excellent description of its history and facilities such as churches, hospitals and schools etc., plus directories of private residents and tradespeople. Also included is a county wide alphabetical list of private residents, a comprehensive classified trades directory and a county map.    

Price:  £12.13





Westmorland 1925 Kelly's Directory
Published:  1925
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

Every parish in the county is included in this book. It is primarily a directory of private residents and commercial traders in each place.
The book also serves as a gazetteer, giving a topographical account of every town, parish, village and township and descriptions of the principal buildings and objects of interest.
   

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Westmorland 1929 Kelly's Directory
Published:  1929
Medium: CD         Publisher:  Archive CD Books

Every parish in the county is included in this book. It is primarily a directory of private residents and commercial traders in each place.
The book also serves as a gazetteer, giving a topographical account of every town, parish, village and township and descriptions of the principal buildings and objects of interest.
   

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Wills and Inventories Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics &c. of the Northern Counties of England from the Eleventh Century Downwards. Part I.
Author:  James Raine
Published:  01/Jan/1835
Medium: Book         Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Durham diocesan registry documents until 1580. Some Latin, mainly English, transcribed in full with occasional explanatory notes. Concludes with an account and Annual Report of the Surtees Society. See volumes 38, 112, 142.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44010-8

Price:  £25.00




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