Version 2 (3 June 2016)

This gazetteer is the result of an MA dissertation I wrote for the MA in Regional and Local History and Archaeology at the University of Winchester. I have continued to do research on the houses from time to time and this Web site is a work in progress. The MA dissertation itself is here in PDF.

The data for the dissertation was kept in a relational database, in three tables: houses, residents, and house-resident relationships. I have reproduced this structure here in XML. So, within a house details page you can click on 'Residents' and list all the people who were found to have an association with the house (they may not have actually lived there, but may have simply owned the house). Similarly within a resident details page you can click on Houses. More about the database design.

It's taken me nearly four years to get round to doing this, but only four days to actually implement it. However, having done so, I realised there was still a lot of work to do. The notes still need tidying up, especially for the 'people' pages. Some of the notes need to be broken into paragraphs and I don't seem to have figured that out. In addition, there is still some functionality and data to add, including search and filtering for the long lists. I can do this without incrementing the Version (Versioning refers to the data rather than the functionality).

Versions

Version 2 adds personal relationships, for a limited number of people, and house details from sales and to let advertisements. In Version 2 I have also tidied up the house information and added a thumbnail for each house, and a map location for many of them.

I've added map locations from the National Library of Scotland Map Images Web site. Unfortunately that's great for houses built before the production of the OS County Series 6 inch maps of the 1900s, but not so great for houses built after that. So for later houses, I have provided a link to the Bing Satellite map on the same site: you can toggle to the 1900s map to see what the map looked like before the house was built. I've only provided map locations for the first few houses in the alphabetical list.

Version 3 will add personal relationships for the rest of the people, and map locations for the rest of the houses. House-Person relationships need to be sorted by start date (currently they seem to be in random order for each house, which makes them difficult to follow).

Version 4 will add dynamic links to the list of sources.

Version 5 will add images for some of the people and larger images for some of the houses.

Feedback is welcome!