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Welcome to the FreeBMD District Aliasers' reference page that contains information about easily confused districts.

False Friends

  1. Kingston upon Hull is the official name of Hull and is nothing to do with Kingston in Surrey / Middlesex.
  2. Overton is a subdistrict of Ellesmere as well as being used as 'Whitchurch and Overton'
  3. St Thomas Birmingham in Warwickshire is nothing to do with St Thomas which is in modern day Exeter in Devon

Similar Name within Same Volumes

Often the volume number can be used to discriminate between similar names (e.g. Derby and West Derby), but in a minority of cases this does not work. Below is a partial list of those identified so far.

Amesbury Malmesbury   8+5a
Berkhampstead Hemel Hempstead   6+3a
Castle Ward East Ward West Ward 25+10b
City of London (1837-69) East London (1837-69) West London (1837-69) 2+1c
(all 3 became London City in 1870, 1c)
Clifton Clutton   Vol 11 only
Cuckfield Uckfield   7+2b
Droitwich West Bromwich   Vol 18 only
East Ashford West Ashford   5+2a
Ecclesall Bierlow Ecclesfield   Vol 22 only
Hailsham Horsham   7+2b
Kington Knighton   Vol 26 only
Madeley Martley   Vol 18 only
Market Bosworth Market Harborough   15+7a
Mitford Mutford   Vol 13 only
Nantwich Northwich   19+8a
Rochford Romford   12+4a
Salisbury Shaftesbury   8+5a
Southam Southampton   7+2c
Tetbury Tewkesbury Thornbury 11+6a
West Ham Witham   12+4a

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