Short guides to Records

Published: 1st March 2011

A series of short guides to different types of public and other records, including rate books, wills, probate inventories and poll books.

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  • Rate Books
  • Poll Books
  • Probate Inventories
  • Estate Maps and Surveys
  • Guardians' Minute Books
  • Chantry Certificates
  • Hearth Tax Returns
  • Episcopal Visitation Books
  • Estate Acts of Parliament
  • Wills
  • Recusant Rolls
  • Deeds of Title
  • Glebe Terriers
  • Enclosure Awards and Acts
  • Records of Commissions of Sewers
  • Land Tax Assessments
  • Parliamentary Surveys
  • Turnpike Records
  • Fire Insurance Policy Registers
  • Chapter Act Books
  • Tithe Apportionment and Maps
  • Canal and Railway Plans
  • Port Books
  • Quarter Sessions Order Books
  • Local Reports to the General Board of Health
  • Churchwarden's Accounts
  • Constable's Accounts
  • Overseer's Accounts
  • Settlement Papers
  • Apprenticeship and Bastardy Records
  • Coroners' Inquest Records
  • Fire Insurance Plans
  • Census Returns in England and Wales
  • Parish Registers
  • The 1851 Religious Census
  • The 1669 Return of Nonconformist Conventicles
  • Aerial Photography for Archaeology
  • School Log Books
  • Pipe Rolls
  • Assistant Poor Law Commissioners' Correspondence
  • Building Plans
  • Manorial Court Rolls
  • Archdeacons' Records
  • Probate Accounts
  • Prison Registers and Prison Hulk Records
  • Bishops' Registers
  • The Lloyd George Finance Act Material
  • Ordnance Survey Maps