[Talk-GB] Place name mapping party, experiences

[Nick Whitelegg]

> I'm using a combination of guesswork based on type - though undoubtledly
> things will have changed since the 1940s-1950s - and location, local
> knowledge, wikipedia and cross checking with http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/
> (which I think is reasonable - I'm not copying from there, just using it as
> a cross reference)
>
> David

As an aside the list of historical counties is interesting and throws up one 
or two unexpected results. In particular I always thought central London 
always was a county of its own, but according to this website, its historical 
county was Middlesex. Is that correct?

Nick