Tea With The Neighbours

contributed by Alex Coles, November 2010

Neighbouring villages are an important source of information for any one-place-study. The geographic features of the landscape, in particular transport links like roads and railways, often determined where people might go on a regular basis and who they might meet. Marrying someone from a neighbouring parish, or moving there, is common.

Is there a one-place-study for any of the villages near to your own one-place-study? The county maps on each of the Index pages will help identify if this is the case - the same coloured pin is a place in the same county, a different coloured pin is a place in a neighbouring county where you might not have thought to look. Get together with your neighbouring one-place-studies and see what information you might have for each other!

Don't forget to look over country borders as well - at the time of writing there is a limitation on the mapping facility which means you won't necessarily see the one-place-studies in neighbouring countries appear on your country's map but I hope to have this resolved shortly.