Links
Many of the web sites listed here may be of particular interest to anyone who is researching the history of Oxted and its neighbouring area or the county of Surrey but also inlcudes some major resources and reference works for national history
https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/history-centre
Surrey History Centre at Woking, with archives dating back to the 12th century
https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/
Surrey Archaeological Society, incorporating Surrey History journal
The Bourne Society, which covers the history of north east Surrey
https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/local-history-centres
Local History Centres in Surrey Libraries
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
The Victoria County History
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
British History on-line
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
The National Archives
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
The British Newspaper Archive, which is accessible by fee or at a local library
The official History of Parliament, which contains biographical profiles of Members of Parliament from medieval times to 1832, and articles about each constituency
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, containing over 60,000 biographies of significant figures in British history; accessible with a Surrey Library card number
The British Association for Local History
The British Agricultural History Society, with back copies of its journal the Agricultural History Review
http://www.eastsurreymuseum.org.uk/
The East Surrey Museum in Caterham
https://www.eastsurreyfhs.org.uk/
East Surrey Family History Society
The Surrey Museums Partnership, which supports more than 40 museums in the county
http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4
A collection of nearly 700 trade and local directories for the 1760s to 1910 for English and Welsh counties, maintained by the University of Leicester
https://historicengland.org.uk/
The National Heritage List for England, which is the official register of listed and historic buildings and sites
http://www.lostheritage.org.uk/index.html
A guide to country houses that have been demolished or left to ruin over the years, including many in Surrey, with some photographs
https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/
Maps, statistics and some articles about places in the UK from 1801, run by the University of Portsmouth
Historic maps of Britain on the National Library of Scotland website
https://townmaps.history.ac.uk/
A catalogue of more than 8,000 historic town maps of Britain
https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/
A guide to people, places and themes in Surrey history
A free on-line copy of the Domesday Book. Information on 151 places in Surrey mentioned in the text is at:
https://opendomesday.org/county/surrey/
https://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/
The Survey of English Place-Names, a British Academy Research Project run by the English Place-Name Society and supported by the University of Nottingham and others. Nottingham's Institute for Name Studies is also home to another project:
The Key to English Place Names - a guide to the interpretation of the names of English towns, cities and villages
https://theclergydatabase.org.uk/
The Clergy of the Church of England Database provides biographical information about individual clergymen from 1540-1835
https://theartssocietylimpsfield.org.uk/
Limpsfield Arts Society
The Surrey Industrial History Group
Grace's Guide to British Industrial History, with nearly 150,000 pages of information and more than 230,000 images
The official website for Titsey Place & Gardens, near Oxted
https://www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/
A website which explores the people, events and ideas of the British civil wars of the seventeenth century, with contributions by leading historians
https://surreylidar.org.uk/wp_sur/wp/
The web portal for the Surrey LiDAR project, based on a light and range directing system which creates a digital map of the county's landscape, uncovering many previously unknown archeological features