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The following appear as names for Bishops Stortford. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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BISHOPS STORTFORD | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
BISHOPS STORTFORD OR BISHOP STORTFORD | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
BISHOP STORTFORD | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). | |
STORTFORD | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with Bishops Stortford. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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BISHOPS STORTFORD | Ancient District (Borough) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 624. |
Constituency (CCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) | |
Constituency (PBCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) | |
Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 243. | |
Local Government District (UD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 627. | |
Local Government District (RD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 627. | |
Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 243. | |
Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 625. | |
Rural Deanery | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 783. | |
Sanitary District (USD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 625. | |
Sanitary District (RSD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 625. | |
Urban Labour Market | Great Britain Historical GIS Project | |
BISHOPS STORTFORD NEW TOWN | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 243. |
BISHOP STORTFORD | Local Government District (UD) | 1901 Census of England and Wales, Table 24, 'Ages of Persons, Males and Females, in Municipal Boroughs and other Urban Districts, 1901'. |
Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | 1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'. | |
Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU) | 1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'. | |
Registration sub-District | Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office) | |
Sanitary District (USD) | 1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area and Population in Rural Sanitary Districts'. | |
Sanitary District (RSD) | 1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area and Population in Rural Sanitary Districts'. | |
E170456 | Local Government District (UD) | |
HERTFORD AND STORTFORD | Constituency (CCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
SAWBRIDGEWORTH | Registration sub-District | 1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'. |
STORTFORD | Constituency (CCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 243. | |
Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 243. | |
Registration sub-District | 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'. |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Bishops Stortford, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Bishops Stortford, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bishops Stortford in East Hertfordshire | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/813/names
Date accessed: 29th March 2024