Links

• Internet-based

Mapping on demand via the internet for any area you need - an invaluable service

• Ordnance Survey

No cycle tour can be complete without a good map.  The Ordnance Survey website provides a list of map products.  Unfortunately the standard mapping now available does not meet the needs of cyclists so well as the classic 1 inch to the mile of my youth 

• Old Maps

Useful for tracing the lie of the land for your family history research - this site provides Victorian Ordnance Survey maps.

• Christchurch

Excellent local government sites for my home town

• Dorset

Award winning local goverment site for Dorset

• Hampshire

Local government site for the neighbouring county of Hamshire

• 1871 Census for Cornwall

This Kindred Konnections website provides free access to a searchable database for the 1871 census for Cornwall - invaluable if you have Cornish roots

• FreeCEN

This free site provides a searchable database of transcribed census returns for the Bristish Isles from 1841 to 1891. A good coverage for Cornwall and for Devon in some years is provided.

• IGI

The International Genealogical Index published by the Church of Latter Day Saints provides an invaluable genealogical record.  If you are lucky, some of your ancestors may be included in the transcribed records available on-line. You can also find the 1881 UK census transcribed on this site.

• Landulph OPC

The 'on-line parish clerk' (not associated with the parish council of the present day) provides transcriptions of parish register entries. The coverage of 19th century entries is particularly valuable since these are not in the IGI.

•  Landulph 

Time goes on - this lively site illustrates community life in Landulph Parish today

•   Plymouth Directories 

Provides facsimiles of various directories of trades and professions for Plymouth throughout the 19th century. The site is no longer active, but the link leads to an archived version of this useful source of information; some of the original pages may not be archived.

•   Library of Historical Directories 

Provides facsimiles of historical directories of England and Wales from 1750 to 1919, and including, of course, Devon and Cornwall. The search function is specially useful.

•   Plymouth Data 

A useful encyclopedia of old Plymouth, Devonport and East Stonehouse, and also the ancient parishes of St Budeaux, Eggbuckland, Tamerton Foliot, Plympton St Maurice, Plympton St Mary and Plymstock.

•  Plymouth and Suburbs - today and yesterday 

A series of sites providing invaluable pictures and old maps of the Plymouth area from Stephen Johnson