> I'm using a combination of guesswork based on type - though undoubtledly > things will have changed since the 1940s-1950s - and location, local > knowledge, wikipedia and cross checking with http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/ > (which I think is reasonable - I'm not copying from there, just using it as > a cross reference) > > David
As an aside the list of historical counties is interesting and throws up one or two unexpected results. In particular I always thought central London always was a county of its own, but according to this website, its historical county was Middlesex. Is that correct? Nick _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb

