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Catalogue description Ordnance Survey: Directorate of Field Survey: Original Name Books
| Reference: | OS 34 |
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| Title: | Ordnance Survey: Directorate of Field Survey: Original Name Books |
| Description: |
The documents in this series consist of folders containing information on geographical features, villages, hamlets and individual buildings (often with names of owner or occupier) within each parish, including place names and the authority for their spelling. They comprise the earliest surviving record of place names in England and Wales collected by the Ordnance Survey. Only books relating to the counties of Cumberland, Durham, Hampshire (the Isle of Wight only), Northumberland and Westmorland survived enemy action in 1940. |
| Date: | 1853-1866 |
| Arrangement: |
The information is arranged, in table form, under the following headings:
Most of the books are indexed. Information recorded from a single parish often fills more than one book: where this has occurred each book has been allocated a separate piece number. Conversely, many volumes relate to an area wider than that of the parish named in the catalogue: parishes not named in the catalogue should be sought in volumes relating to adjoining parishes. |
| Separated material: |
A separate series of original name books for Scotland is held at the National Records of Scotland under the reference OS1 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 469 volume(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Ordnance Survey has always assumed responsibility for deciding what place names are to appear on its maps and how they should be spelt. Apart from certain administrative names which follow the spelling of the Act of Parliament by which they were created, there is no national body in the United Kingdom responsible for the naming and spelling of places which appear on official maps or other documents. |
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