Chris French wrote:
You can see an old map of the county on this page:
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/images/maps/LancashireN.jpg

Nice maps. What are the coloured regions? The commentaries suggest
they are Parliamentary Constituencies from 1885, but
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/image...orkshireSW.jpg
interestingly labels "Hallamshire" as being what've been
usually called "Sheffield Hillsborough" or the southern
half of "Penistone & Stocksbridge", and the Handsworth bit
is way too small to have suffient population to make up
a Parliamentary Constituency, plus Sheffield had seven
constituencies in the 1880s.

JGH