Our administrative gazetteer combines:

• Youngs' Local Administrative Units of England (1979 and 1991)
• Melville Richards' Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (1969)
• The Scottish Archives Network's Gazetteer, covering counties, parishes and burghs
• The National Register of Archives' Manorial Documents Register

Searches can include asterisks ('*') as wild cards to match characters you are not sure of, or you can try including names that 'sound like' the name you are looking for. Wild card and 'sound alike' searches can return very large numbers of matches, so consider specifying the level, type or status of the unit (for details, see the Administrative Units Typology). If you cannot find what you are looking for here, try our Descriptive Gazetteer, which holds the text of several 19th century gazetteers.