Bentley's 1840/41 Directory of Worcestershire

These pages give a flavour of the type of information contained in a county directory. I have chosen a few consecutive pages including a few places, as being representative of small villages and one town. Directories give an immense amount of information useful to family historians. Not only may they contain your family members, but they also give a considerable amount of background information relating to the places where your family lived.

They are primary sources of information, and as such, I have chosen to scan the original pages and display them rather than transcribe them, and hence devalue them and relegate them to secondary sources.

Please note that these pages are quite large in file size, and take a few moments to fully display on the Internet, although of course, when viewed as a CD book, the pages display instantly. These pages are at a reduced resolution than on the CD Book of the directory.

These pages are scans of the original book of 1840/41.

  • Advertisements
  • Part of Dudley street map & Dudley castle engraving
  • Broadway - the full set of directory pages
    • 58 - Introduction
    • 59
      • Parish Church,
      • Catholic Chapel,
      • Independent Chapel
    • 60
      • Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
      • School
      • more description of Dudley
      • post office and post times.
      • Start of alphabetical listing ABBEY William to DIMOCK J
    • 61
      • Alphabetical listing DRURY C to TUSTIN John
    • 62
      • Alphabetical listing UNITT Mary to WILSON
      • Classification of trades
    • 63
      • Classification of trades continued
      • Coaches to London and Worcester
      • Carriers to Evesham, Oxford and Worcester

Directories for many more counties, and for different periods are available on CD -
see The Archive CD Books Project

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