Six inches to mile parish boundaries maps collection: England

Collection of six inches to mile ordnance survey maps used for marking boundaries of Church of England parishes in England. ; The boundaries shown are the ancient parish boundaries and boundaries of parishes created from the first half of the 19th century until 1960s. The new parishes started to be created after the reform of the Church administration of the 1830s.; Maps arranged into series by county.; The capital letters followed by numbers and dates, often inscribed on the maps are the numbers of the more recent 1:10,000 OS sheets, and the date is the date when the boundary information was copied from the old 6" OS maps to the new 1:10,000 set of maps. The maps were all subsequently digitised in 2000.

The abbreviations used in the Admin History field of item level entries provide the details of schemes/orders as follows: Type of Scheme: O/C = Order in Council; P/M = Pastoral order; Date: Date of confirmation or other completion; Codes: (up to 6 different codes per entry indicating type of reorganisation as listed below); CC = consolidated chapelry; AB = alteration of boundaries; NP = new parish; DC = district chapel; AAP = alteration of parish boundaries; AAD = alteration by verbal description only; NPH = creation of new parish; NBF = creation of new benefice; UPH = union of parishes; RCH = any scheme involving a redundancy or appropriation of churchyard; UBF = union of benefices [other record series also use UB] ; CNP = parish change of name; DRD = alteration of Diocese, Archdeaconry or Rural Deanery boundaries; MIS = miscellaneous, including: change of benefice name; plurality; dissolution of benefice; Group and Team Ministries; new Church; transfer of parish