Welcome to our British Directory.
This page provides a structured index of UK-focused websites, organised by topic to help you discover established online resources. The listings are based on historic human-edited directory data and have been preserved to highlight long-standing sites across the British web.
Many shorter-lived sites have disappeared over time, leaving a core set of more established and durable resources. While some entries may no longer be active, this directory continues to offer a useful overview of trusted UK websites within this category.
- A collection of around 1200 items from Somerset Archive and Record Service.
- Britannia provides a narrative history of the county by Brenda Ralph Lewis and David Nash Ford, biographies, including those of the Bishops of Bath and Wells, guides to notable places and legends.
- Somerset Record Office provides a summary of the parish records and images it holds for the parishes of the county, of interest for genealogy and local history.
- Regiments covered include the Somerset Light Infantry, Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry, West Somerset Yeomanry, North Somerset Yeomanry, Somerset Militia, Rifle Volunteers and Territorials and The Light Infantry
- Project to make available on-line all the available historical data on a parish including census returns, church registers, churchwardens accounts, land tax records, postal directory extracts, church and village histories.
- A project to present the county's historical, archaeological and architectural treasures on a single accessible website. Currently has the History of Glastonbury and the Monmouth Rebellion.
- The life and history of the parishes and churches of Blackford, Compton Pauncefoot, Holton, Maperton, North Cadbury, North Cheriton, South Cadbury and Yarlington.
- Part of the series of English county histories begun in the reign of Victoria. Volumes already published and in progress, online draft text and parish index.
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