Some family researchers believe it is necessary to find an old map to locate an old town. An old map will not necessarily show all towns in existence when the map was printed because small towns might have been omitted. A useful tool for locating towns is a
gazetteer, which is a geographical dictionary that lists place names.
Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, published by Cassell & Co. is a gazetteer that was published periodically, around the latter 1800s and early 1900s, this one being the 1893 edition.
This set of large format volumes, has been reproduced on three CDs, and includes all the sixty maps and photographs. The volumes contain a place by place description and history of every city, town, village and hamlet (with population) in the whole of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Cassell's Gazetteer is a topographical dictionary invaluable in finding locations where your relatives may have lived. It includes photographs and colour maps for reference.
The CDs contains high quality scanned images of the whole of the original books. The data on each CD is completely self-contained, and requires no installation. Pages are bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, and printed if required.
Please read carefully: If the CDs are for use in a Society or Public Library you will need a library licence, this price is five times the full retail price. You will then be issued with a library certificate for the product. The publishers terms do not allow users to publish their products or extracts on the internet. Also terms also exclude using these products to provide a lookup service, or the reselling of disks.
