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

Modern works:

(2) County and local history: W

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

• Robin Bush, Waddon, Dorset: The Waddon Manors and the Dorset Domesday (Time Team, Channel 4)
  Version of an article written for Somerset & Dorset Notes & Queries discussing the identification of the settlements of Friars Waddon, West Waddon and Little Waddon with the two Domesday manors
• George H. Crowther, A Descriptive History of the Battles of Wakefield (1886) (Beryl Thompson)
  PDF format; rather slow to download
• Frederic W. Willmore A History of Walsall [Staffordshire] And its Neighbourhood (1887) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
• Local History of Wantage, Oxfordshire (The Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage)
  A collection of detailed articles on the local history of Wantage and the surrounding area, including a number covering the medieval period - on King Alfred's Palace, Church History, Kingston Bagpuize, the Manor House, the 1522 Muster Roll, the Open Fields, Tudor Documents, West Challow Old Hall, and the Wedon and Wirdnam families
• William Nelson Clarke Parochial Topography of the Hundred of Wanting, with other miscellaneous records relating to the County of Berks. (1824) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
• David Roffe, Lady Godiva, the book, and Washingborough [Lincolnshire] (David Roffe)
  Discussion of the manor around the 11th century, and its connection with Godiva, apparently the third wife of Siward, Earl of Northumbria. Originally published in Lincolnshire Past and Present, vol. 12, pp. 9, 10 (1993)
• John F. Curwen, The Later Records relating to North Westmorland or the Barony of Appleby (1932) (British History Online)
  Supplements earlier work by Nicholson and Burn, History of Westmorland and Cumberland, and Ragg, on the barony of Appleby, but includes much medieval material.
• William Farrer (edited by John F. Curwen) Records relating to The Barony of Kendale [Kendal, Westmorland], volume 1 (1923) (EdenLinks)
  Text of the first of three volumes containing extensive transcripts of records relating to the south-western division of Westmorland.
• Westmorland Villages and Parishes (EdenLinks)
  History and description for each place, apparently from Parson and White's Directory of Cumberland and Westmorland (1829).
• [Westwick, Hertfordshire] The Leverstock Green Chronicle (Barbara Chapman)
  Includes a chronological listing of evidence from medieval records
• George T. O. Bridgeman The history of the church and manor of Wigan, in the County of Lancaster (1888) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
  Chetham Society, new series, volume 15. Part 1 of 4, covering the history up to 1615.
• John Aubrey, The Natural History of Wiltshire (Project Gutenberg)
  Text from the edition of John Britton (1847)
• [C. Mayo] A History of Wimborne Minster; The Collegiate Church of Saint Cuthberga and King's Free Chapel at Wimborne [Dorset] (1860) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
• Edward Marshall The early history of Woodstock manor [Oxfordshire] and its environs, in Bladon, Hensington, New Woodstock, Blenheim (1873) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
• John Noake The Monastery and Cathedral of Worcester (1866) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
• John Holland The history, antiquities, and description of the town and parish of Worksop, in the county of Nottingham (1826) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
• Robert White, Worksop, the Dukery, and Sherwood Forest [Nottinghamshire] (1875) (Andy Nicholson, Nottinghamshire History and Archaeology)
• Wrenthorpe History Web [near Wakefield, West Yorkshire] (Edward Green)
  Includes information on the medieval history of Wrenthorpe, in the sections on "First 600 Years" and "Wrenthorpe in Old Local History Books"
• John Parker The early history and antiquities of Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire (1878) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])