An incredibly rare directory.

Note that these directories include only the main towns and market towns, and not the villages in the county.

A very early and rare directory which covers the market towns and principal villages of the county (Please note that smaller villages and hamlets are not included). The descriptons of each place are excellent with lots of details about schools, hospitals, churches and other institutions plus detailed histories and directories of the nobility, gentry, clergy and classified directories of tradespeople. Also included is an excellent county map.

The places included in this directory are;

Also included are court (private residents) and classified trades directory.

A fabulously comprehensive directory of the county of Warwickshire. Each town, village and hamlet is described in great detail, with information about the schools, churches and hospitals etc in each place. Each place has a commercial directory, which lists people and their occupations, and most have a list of private residents with their addresses.

There is also a Court Directory with an alphabetical list of the names and addresses of private residents plus a Trades Directory with lists of occupations, not just 'professional' people but farmers, shopkeepers, painters and bricklayers as well.

Each town, village and hamlet is described in great detail, with information about the schools, churches and hospitals etc in each place. Each place has a commercial directory, which lists people and their occupations, and most have a list of private residents with their addresses.

An excellent and very comprehensive directory. Each town, village and hamlet in the county is decribed in detail with information about the churches, schools, hospitals and othe institutions that your ancestors may have actually used in their daily lives. Each place also has lists of private residents and commercial traders.

Also included is a court directory of private residents and a classified trades directory.

The first section lists every place in alphabetical order with an extremely detailed description of its history, character and local facilities such as its churches and schools. Each place has at the very least a commercial directory which lists peoples' names along with their occupations and most places have a list of private residents as well.

There then follows a directory of private residents, alphabetically listed by surname with their addresses, and a massive trade directory which lists all types of occupations and the people who undertook them.

Also included is a map of the county in 1912.

A huge directory covering Warwickshire in 1940.

One of the great advantages of a "late" directory such as this is that it is so easy to trace heads of household either by name or street address. (In the main towns each street, and every numbered house is there, together with the head of household and their occupation). Don't think of it as being just a 1940 resource. You will find all branches of your family and their addresses, and then go look at those same addresses in all earlier resources. That's the kind of information that will pull down those brick walls in your earlier research.

This book was kindly loaned to the Archive CD Books Project by Sandwell Record Office.

Five huge volumes comprising the earliest directory for Great Britain, and one which is probably the most important directory for genealogists and historians that we have released on CD. For towns and villages the descriptions of the places are excellent, with details of their facilities, etc, and includes those residents with trades (even those such as farmers, hay-binders, labourers, bakers, shop keepers, etc.) and their addresses.

Although titled "Great Britain", this directory covers places in England and Wales. Volume 1 of the five is devoted to London, volumes 2 to 4 cover the places in the England and Wales in alphabetical order, and vol. 5 contains a number of the subsequent amendments and additions published in the next few years.