Ecclesiastical Commissioners Maps

This is a series of maps related to the Ecclesiastical/Church Commissioners work. Firstly maps drawn up when the Ecclesiastical Commissioners took over the running of the Church estates in the mid nineteenth century and should be examined in conjunction with the relevant survey of the area. Secondly maps drawn up to show the creation of new parish areas out of existing ones. Thirdly maps of local church property - glebe, church sites, churchyards, parsonage sites. Fourthly copies of tithe maps and finally maps reflecting pastoral re-organisation in the twentieth century. Many of the older maps have been handed away permanently to the appropriate local record office in the 1960s and 1970s.