On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:27:50 -0700 (PDT), jgharston
wrote:

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.

Handsworth is presumably "Sheffield Attercliffe" (1885-2010) but it
doesn't explain the absence of the other constituencies.

Looking at your quoted map and other maps in Yorkshire backs up your
1885 date but at that time some constituencies ceased to exist and
other were created so the map seems to have errors

http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/image...orkshireSE.jpg
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/image...orkshireNE.jpg

Taking parliamentary constituencies:

Whitby ceased to be a parliamentary constituency in 1885 (becoming
Scarborough and Whitby)
Howdenshire and Buckrose existed until 1950
Osgoldcross ceased to exist in 1918

Sowerby existed from 1885-1983
Holmfirth existed from 1885-1918

Transport links:
The Woodhead tunnel, presumeably singular is shown so its post 1845
The New Junction Canal isn't shown so its pre 1905

There may be other clues in road, rail or canal networks.

http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/image...glandWales.jpg

Says "German Ocean" instead of North Sea, a name deprecated in the
towards the end of the 19th Century.


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