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Gazetteers

Gazetteer for Scotland
A geographical gazetteer and encyclopaedia, including tourist attractions, industries and historical sites, histories of family names, biographies of famous people and descriptions of historical events associated with Scotland
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/ scotgaz/ gaztitle.html

Gazetteer of British Place Names
This gazetteer provides an exhaustive place name index to Britain (over 50,000 entries) and includes alternative spellings and Welsh and Gaelic versions. For each place entry, details of the old or geographical county name are given plus 'the name of the most important administrative areas' (i.e. of local government, police, health authority, region and lieutenancy). and grid reference.
http://www.gazetteer.co.uk

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Each place record gives location, forms of name and citations.
http://www.getty.edu/ research/ conducting_research/ vocabularies/ tgn/ index.html

LocalGov.co.uk
Lists towns in the UK and tells you which local authority boundary they fall within. Click the local authority name to check for any changes to the authority name and type.
http://www.localgov.co.uk/ index.cfm?method=directory.gazetteer

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