Medieval source material on the internet: Modern works: County and local history: B

Modern works:

(2) County and local history: B

N.B. See also the index of places covered by the Victoria County History - some articles are available online.

• North Baddesley [Hampshire] (Sandra Smith)
  A site devoted to the history of the village, including the text of the Domesday survey and notes, a brief account of the Knights Hospitallers, a manorial survey of 1338, lay subsidy assessments of 1586, 1589, 1590, 1594 and 1598 and a list of PCC wills
• St Peter's Church Project, Barton-upon-Humber [Lincolnshire]
  Includes a History of the parish, details of monuments in the church, and a searchable database of parish register entries [the site has now been taken offline, but copies from April 2004 are available at the Internet Archive: Main page and History]
• Barwick-in-Elmet [Yorkshire, West Riding] Historical Society
  The site includes a full list of contents of the society's magazine The Barwicker, together with a number of online articles. The subjects range from the ancient kingdom of Elmet, extracts from medieval manorial records for Scholes, Woodhouse and Barwick itself, the history of Barnbow and the Grenefeld family, the history of Potterton, and accounts of two medieval rectors of Barwick - William Canon (d. 1420) and Richard Pace (d. 1536).
• Bath Past: the history and historic buildings of the city of Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom (Jean Manco)
  A collection of short articles about the history of Bath, including sections on Saxon, Medieval, Tudor & Stuart and Bath Abbey
• Bentley, South Yorkshire: see Bughwallis
• John Smith, Berkeley [Gloucestershire] Manuscripts, and other works
  A number of extracts from John Smith's 17th-century historical works are included in Notes on Berkeley, in the section on Notes and Historical Documents
• Narrative History of the Royal County of Berkshire (Brenda Ralph Lewis and David Nash Ford, Royal Berkshire History)
  Online history of the county in seven parts, including sections on Norman/medieval and Tudor/Stuart periods. This is part of the Royal Berkshire History web site, which contains a number of other historical and biographical articles
• Betley [Staffordshire]: Sources for Betley history (Patrick Corness)
  Abstracts of a number of medieval records concerning Betley, including common law records, chancery rolls, an Anglo-Saxon charter, and lists of inhabitants from a manorial survey and a subsidy roll.
• J. Horsfall Turner, Ancient Bingley or Bingley: its History and Scenery [Yorkshire] [1897] (Beryl Thompson)
  Images in PDF format; rather slow to download
• William Hutton, An History of Birmingham [Warwickshire] (2nd edition, 1783) (Project Gutenberg)
  To be treated with caution, owing to its age; Currie and Lewis, A Guide to English County Histories (1994) refer to it as "certainly the most entertaining" work of local Warwickshire history of its period, though not a "scholarly work".
• The Manor and Lordship of Blisland [Cornwall] (Pat Patterson)
  Extract from John Maclean, Parochial and family history of the parish of Blisland, in the county of Cornwall (1868)
• Historical Incidents [Bodmin, Cornwall] (Pat Patterson)
  16th and 17th centuries; extract from Sir John Maclean, Parochial and Family History of the parish and borough of Bodmin, in the county of Cornwall (1870)
• Boston [Lincolnshire]
  • David Roffe, Boston
  • Pishey Thompson, The history and antiquities of Boston, and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln (1856) (Making of America, University of Michigan)
    Choice of images, PDF files or text, with a search facility (but beware of sometimes inaccurate text conversion)
• Bourne, Lincolnshire:
  • David Roffe, Bourne Abbey
  • David Roffe, Hereward 'the Wake' and the Barony of Bourne: a Reassessment of a Fenland Legend (David Roffe, Publications)
    Text of a paper published in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 29, pp. 7-10 (1994)
  • The castle of Bourne, Lincolnshire, and the Wake family (Kenneth Jacob, My Jacob Family)
    Short article on Bourne Castle and the Wake family.
• Marmaduke Prickett History of the priory church of Bridlington, in the East Riding of the county of York (1836) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
• Bristol, Gloucestershire:
  • The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society On-line Publications
    Includes contents pages, general index and articles from the Society's Transactions, and searchable text of An Historical Gazetteer of Cheltenham (Record Series, volume 8).
• David Roffe, Buglawton [Cheshire] in Domesday Book
• Bunbury, Cheshire: St Boniface Church Bunbury
  The Bunbury Papers section includes articles by Claude Blair on the monument to Sir Hugh Calveley (d. 1394) and on the other medieval effigies in the church, some of which commemorate members of the Spurstow family. The Elsworth Papers section includes biographical sketches of the same Sir Hugh Calveley, Sir Ralph Egerton of Ridley (d. 1528) and Sir George Beeston (d. 1601)
• Burghwallis, South Yorkshire: Village History (Burghwallis.com)
  Includes two items by Margaret L. Pidcock-Burns - Early Lords, detailing the heirs of Robert the Poitevin in the 13th and 14th centuries, and an M.A. thesis, Burghwallis and Bentley: A comparative study of the development of two South Yorkshire Parishes
• K. H. Macdermott, Buxted [Sussex] The Beautiful (1929) (The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex)
  Scanned images (rather slow on a dial-up connection). Includes a chapter on medieval history