Project Purley

The Local History Society for Purley on Thames

Directory & Gazeteer entries

At one time a great deal of information was published about towns and villages in the form of directories or gazeteers. Nowadays this is all replaced by the internet.

Project Purley has transcribed many of these and turned them into articles for their website. Where a directory has had several editions with differing descriptions these are all contained in the same sub-section

Many items contain errors and inaccuracies, often passed from one article to another. Notes are provided to indicate some of these errors, however the original text is always preserved. The articles

Newbury District Guide
The Berkshire Villages Book (Women’s Institute)
Kelly’s Directory
Magna Britannica (Lyssons 1806)
Rusher’s Reading Guide
MacCauley’s Directory
Thames Portrait E Arnot Robertson (1937)
Berkshire Architectural Guide (Piper and Betjamin 1949)
Billings Directory (89)
Stevens Directory
Slater’s Directory (189)
Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England (1849)
Survey Gazeteer of the British Isles (246)
The Thames Valley - A Survey by the Earl of Mayo (1929)
The Thames - Mortimer Menpes (294)
Thames Valley Villages Charles G Harper (1910)
The Historic Thames Hilaire Belloc (1914)
Berkshire and the Cotswolds F H Ditchfield (339)
Berkshire by Ian Yarrow (1952)
Cassey’s Directory
Dutton Allen’s Directory
Carlisle's Topographic Dictionary of England (1808)
Buildings of Berkshire - Pevsner

Miscellaneous Entries
These are items relating to Purley that are too short to warrant a complete section) They are arranged in date order

Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England (1849)
Imperial Gazeteer of England and Wales (1872)
Seats and Mansions in Berkshire
The Norman Architecture of Berkshire (1911)
The Thames and its story (1920s)
Rebuilding and Repair of Berkshire Churches in C17,18 and 19 (1950)

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