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

Modern works:

(2) County and local history: S

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

• Joseph Hammond A Cornish Parish: being an account of St. Austell, town, church, district and people (1897) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
• The History of St. Keverne [Cornwall] (St Keverne Local History Society)
  Unpublished notes by Canon W.A. Diggens, vicar of St Keverne 1896-1913, including details of the Manors of St Keverne and their medieval history
• Henry Fishwick The history of the parish of St. Michaels-on-Wyre in the county of Lancaster; with an appendix containing a transcript of the registers of the chapelry of Woodplumpton for 1604 to 1613 (1891) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
  Chetham Society, new series, volume 25
• Hasells Hall, Sandy [Bedfordshire] (Bernard O'Connor)
  Account of the manor, including detailed references to documents from the 13th century onwards
• Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selborne (Project Gutenberg)
• G.A. Kempthorne, History of the parish of Sheviock [Cornwall] [1934] (Pat Patterson)
  Excepts from Chapters 1 and 2
• The Shipley [Derbyshire] Estate - Studies in History (Brian Taylor) [formerly at http://ibis.nott.ac.uk/~plzbt/shipley/studhistorycontents.htm; not available, 2 November 2003; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from June 2002]
• Silverstone, Northamptonshire (Whittlewood Project; Richard Jones, University of Leicester)
  Historical outline, from a multi-disciplinary (documentary and archaeological) study of 12 parishes in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire
• A.H. Taylor, The Clergy of St. John the Baptist, Smallhythe [Kent] (Kent Archaeological Society)
  Text of a paper originally published in Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 55, pp. 26-36 (1942) Biographical notes, 15th-century and later
• E. H. Bates, ed., The particular description of the county of Somerset, drawn up by Thomas Gerard of Trent, 1633 (1900) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
  Somerset Record Society, volume 15. The surviving part of an early work of topography and local history.
• Stamford, Lincolnshire:
  • Christine Mahany and David Roffe, Stamford: The Development of an Anglo-Scandinavian Borough (David Roffe, Publications)
    Analysis of the history of Stamford, to the 11th century, drawing on documentary and archaeological evidence. Text of a paper originally published in Anglo-Norman Studies 5: Proceedings of Battle Conference 1982, pp. 199-219
  • Stamford Castle: history (David Roffe)
• Robert Trow-Smith, The History of Stevenage (2nd edn, 1999)[temporarily unavailable, 15 February 2006; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from February 2005]
• F. W. Hardman and W. P. D. Stebbing, Stonar and the Wantsum Channel. Part III.- The Site of the Town of Stonar [Kent] (Kent Archaeological Society)
  Text of a paper originally published in Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 55, pp. 37-49 (1942) Includes an outline of the medieval history of Stonar
• Stowe, Buckinghamshire (Whittlewood Project; Richard Jones, University of Leicester)
  Historical outline, from a multi-disciplinary (documentary and archaeological) study of 12 parishes in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire
• H. T. Crofton A History of the Ancient Chapel of Stretford in Manchester Parish [Lancashire] (1899) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
  Chetham Society, new series, number 51. Volume 1 of 3.
• Stretton [Rutland] History - Early History (Rutland On Line)
• Thomas Walker Horsfield, The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (1835) (The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex)
  Scanned images (rather slow on a dial-up connection) of the parts of the book dealing with the Sussex Weald, namely the hundreds of Loxfield Camden, Loxfield Dorset, Hartfield and Rushmonden, the town of Tunbridge Wells, and the parishes of Buxted, East Hoathly, Fletching, Framfield, Frant, Hartfield, Horsted Parva, Isfield, Lamberhurst, Maresfield, Mayfield, Rotherfield, Uckfield, Wadhurst, Waldron and Withyham
• Search Online - West Sussex Past (West Sussex Record Office)
  Search facility for "the majority" of the Record Office's catalogues (the material covered doesn't seem to be specified further).
• Gordon Ward, The Suttons [Kent] (Kent Archaeological Society)
  Text of a paper originally published in Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 55, pp. 1-7 (1942) Discussion of several places called Sutton in Kent, including medieval references