How to write the history of a parish

Chapter 3: ABBREVIATIONS.

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This handbook provides practical, step-by-step guidance for compiling a parish history, with detailed advice on tracing place-name etymology, analyzing field-names and maps, and consulting tithe and inclosure plans. It surveys archival sources and published records, including medieval surveys and manorial documents, and recommends useful reference works and repositories for further research. It addresses archaeological evidence such as barrows and stone monuments, cautions against common antiquarian errors, and outlines methods for organizing documentary material and verifying local traditions.

ABBREVIATIONS.

P.R.O.—For the Public Record Office. Almost the whole of our national records, which were until recently in upwards of half-a-dozen different buildings, are now under one roof in Fetter Lane, Fleet Street. All documents mentioned in the following pages must be understood to be at the Public Record Office, unless it is otherwise stated. Several of the earlier folio publications of the Record Commissioners, to which reference is herein made, are out of print, but they are to be found in most of our public libraries.

B. M.—For the Library of the British Museum.

B.—For the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

C.—For the University Library, Cambridge.