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BoAr: Gazetteers: home

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©2006 R.J.PENHEY

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The Bourne Archive

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Gazetteers, Directories and Road Books

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Gazetteers

A gazetteer gives a summary of each place listed. It concentrates on broadly geographical matters though some may be weighted towards details of political and social administration.

Directories

A directory is a form of gazetteer which strongly emphasizes the listing of people, usually predominantly, in their capacity as traders or service providers.

Itineraries (Road Books)

Before the days of satellite navigation and road atlases, it was normal for reasonably well-heeled travellers to own a road book of the country. In it, the roads were described according to a formula, landmark by landmark, with the distances between them and very important for the sales appeal, notes of the notable residences and their occupants to right and left. Typically, the roads radiating from the capital were described, then the branch roads leading from them to places intermediate between the main routes. Lastly, the roads crossing the radial routes and running between provincial towns, the cross-roads, were described.

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The following index lists the items so far transcribed.

G. A. Cooke’s topographical description of Lincolnshire, ca. 1808: a form of road book.

Bourne

Marrat’s History of Lincolnshire, 1816: an historical gazetteer

Bourne Castle

William Dodd

Civil War

Dr. Willis

The Parliamentary Gazetteer, 1843: a gazetteer.

Boston

The Parishes of the Bourne Poor Law Union.

Paterson’s Roads, 1826, a road book.

White’s Directory, 1882: a trade directory.

Baston

Bourne

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