Medieval source material on the internet: Modern works: Local history: C

Modern works:

(2) Local history: C

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

• Cambridgeshire: See Victoria County History and Older County Histories
• The Foresters of Cannock [Staffordshire] in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Richard Dace; in Prosopon, issue 12) (Prosopon, Journal of the Prosopography Centre, University of Oxford) [not available, 26 June 2023; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from October 2021]
  PDF format
• R. A. Lendon Smith, The Barton and Bartoner of Christ Church, Canterbury [Kent] (Kent Archaeological Society)
  Text of a paper originally published in Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 55, pp. 16-25 (1942) The history of the Barton - or home farm - of Christ Church, Canterbury
• Anglo-Norman Castles (Paul Martin Remfry)
  An excellent resource, with an emphasis on castles in Wales and the Welsh March. The author's books on individual castles can be purchased through the site, and there are also online essays on many of them. See A List of Castles operational in Wales and the Marches, 1042 to 1307, with links to more detailed information, and the index to Places and Names found within current Booklets
• Gordon Ward, The Lost Dens of Little Chart [Kent] (Kent Archaeological Society)
  Text of a paper originally published in Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 58, pp. 1-7 (1945) Attempts to trace the "dens" - areas of land in the Weald - belonging to Little Chart manor
• Cheltenham, Gloucestershire:
  • The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
    Provides a number of resources, including online versions of the Society's publications.
• Cheshire: See Victoria County History and Older County Histories
• Hubert C. Corlette, The Cathedral Church of Chichester [Sussex] (1901)
  Mainly architectural, but including a description of the monuments and an account of the history of the see
• Chiddingstone [Kent] Early Poor Law Accounts (Kent Archaeological Society)
  Text of an article by June Gibbons, published as Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 73, pp. 193-195 (1959), on 16th-century accounts of the collectors for the poor
• C. R. Councer, The Medieval Painted Glass of Chilham [Kent] (Kent Archaeological Society)
  Text of a paper originally published in Archaeologia Cantiana, vol. 58, pp. 8-13 (1945) Some of the glass described is heraldic; includes some notes on the Ensinge family
• The History of Clevedon, [Somerset] (Clevedon Civic Society)
  Text by Derek Lilly
• A History of the Manor and Advowson of Clifford Chambers [Gloucestershire] and some account of its possessors (David Parsons, GENUKI) [not available, 27 June 2011; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from August 2010]
  Text of a paper by Sir John Maclean, from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, vol. 14, part 1 (1890)
• History of medieval Colchester [Essex] (Stephen Alsford, Medieval English Towns)
• Colchester Archaeological Trust Online Report Library (Colchester Archaeological Trust and University of Essex)
  Collection of archaeological reports relating to Colchester, produced by the Colchester Archaeological Trust and others, including the Essex Archaeological Society.
• Colne: Earls Colne [Essex]
  • Earls Colne, Essex: Records of an English Village 1375-1854 (Cambridge University)
    A unique collection of transcripts of source documents, with extensive cross-referencing by hyperlinks, together with background information on the records
  • The Strife of Two Great Tides: the Harlakenden Case (Alan Macfarlane, University of Cambridge)
    Draft of a talk about a legal dispute in 1587 between Roger Harlakenden, lord of the manor, and the Ives family; PDF format
• Rev. Evelyn Young (ed. T. M. Blagg) A History of Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire (Nottinghamshire History and Archaeology)
  Text originally published in the Thoroton Society Record Series, vol. 9 (1942).
• Congleton, Cheshire:
  • David Roffe, Congleton [Cheshire] in Domesday Book
  • David Roffe, Henry de Lacy�s charter and the development of Congleton (Congleton Civic Society) [not available, 26 February 2008; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from May 2005]
• Conisbrough [Yorkshire] Court Rolls (Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield)
  Searchable translations of a selection of court rolls and other records.
• Cornwall: See Victoria County History and Older County Histories
• A Gazetteer of Cornish Manors (Cornwall County Council) [not available, 22 June 2024; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from February 2010]
  Listing of manors and the parishes they lay in, arranged alphabetically by manor and parish.
• Coventry [Warwickshire]
  • Frederic W. Woodhouse, The churches of Coventry. a short history of the city and its medieval remains (1909) (Project Gutenberg)
• A history of Cranham, Essex (HTML version by Jeff Kelsey)
  Text by A.W.Fox
• Geoffrey Dawes, Tale of Crich [Derbyshire]: A History of Our Parish (1988) (Alan S. Flint, Crich Parish)
  In progress; includes an account of manorial descents in medieval times
• A. P. Keegan, The Town of Cropredy [Oxfordshire] 1570 - 1640 (1999) (Pamela and Mark Keegan, Mewslade) [not available, 19 April 2015]
  A very extensive (over 700-page) study using wills and inventories, and relating the records to modern properties in the village; includes 64 detailed family trees.
• The Story of Crowbrough [Sussex] (1933) (The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex)
  Scanned images (rather slow on a dial-up connection). Includes a chapter on manorial history
• David Roffe, On Middan Gyrwan Fenne: Intercommoning around the Island of Crowland [Lincolnshire] (David Roffe, Publications)
  Examination of the background to a dispute over the lands of Crowland Abbey in the 12th century. Text of a paper published in Fenland Research, vol. 8, pp. 80-86 (1993)
• Cumberland: See Victoria County History and Older County Histories
• Cumnor [Oxfordshire] (Cumnor Parish Record, Cumnor and District History Society)
  Extensive website devoted to the history of Cumnor, including transcripts of records, indexes of wills and funeral monuments, biographical details for 3000 individuals, articles, maps and photographs. The contents are selected from an even more extensive unpublished collection, about which enquiries may be made