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The only book of its kind, this indispensable reference tool with its 17,000 entries is designed to facilitate research by giving the names and descriptions of places in England as they existed prior to 1831, giving location, ecclesiastical jurisdiction, population, and the date of the earliest entry in the registers of every ancient parish, thus combining genealogical information hitherto impossible to find in any but the rarest sources.

The information supplied is as follows: (1) a description of each parish, chapelry, hamlet, town, etc., as it was in 1831; (2) the date of commencement of all Church of England parish registers; (3) the name of the county or shire in which the place was situated in 1831; (4) the distance in miles from the next largest place; (5) the population of each place as of 1831; (6) the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of each parish in 1831; and (7) the existence of nonconformist churches or meeting places for Quakers, Baptists, Methodists, etc.

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