Pigot's Directory was a major British directory started in 1814 by

James Pigot James Pigot (1769 – 15 Feb 1843) was a British publisher of directories, and a pioneering publisher of trade directories. He was born in Macclesfield. In 1811 he began publishing trade directories for Manchester, competing with the firm of ...

. Pigot's Directories covered England, Scotland, and Wales in the period before official Civil Registration began and are a valuable source of information regarding all major professions, nobility, gentry, clergy, trades and occupations including taverns and public houses and much more are listed. There are even timetables of the coaches and carriers that served a town. Parishes are listed for each area with useful information including the number of inhabitants, a geographical description and the main trades and industries of the area or town.

List of Pigot’s Trade Directories by date

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List of Pigot’s Trade Directories by geographic coverage

* Bedfordshire 1839 * Cambridgeshire 1839 * Cambridgeshire 1830 * Derbyshire 1835 * Durham 1834 * Dyfed 1830 (Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire) * Essex 1839 * Herefordshire 1835 *

Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...

1839 * Huntingdonshire 1830 * Huntingdonshire 1839 * Kent 1839 *

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

1835 * Lincolnshire 1835 * London 1839 * Middlesex 1839 *

Monmouthshire Monmouthshire ( cy, Sir Fynwy) is a county in the south-east of Wales. The name derives from the historic county of the same name; the modern county covers the eastern three-fifths of the historic county. The largest town is Abergavenny, with ...

1835 * Norfolk 1839 * North Wales 1835 * Northumberland 1828 * Northumberland 1834 * Nottinghamshire 1835 *

Rutlandshire Rutland () is a ceremonial county and unitary authority in the East Midlands, England. The county is bounded to the west and north by Leicestershire, to the northeast by Lincolnshire and the southeast by Northamptonshire. Its greatest l ...

1835 *Scotland and the Isle of Man (1837)''Pigot and co.'s national commercial directory of ... Scotland, and of the isle of Man''
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& Co (1837) * Shropshire 1835 *

South Wales South Wales ( cy, De Cymru) is a loosely defined region of Wales bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north. Generally considered to include the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, south Wales extends westwards ...

1835 (see also Dyfed, above) *

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

1835 *

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

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Surrey Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...

1839 *

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

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1840 * Warwickshire 1835 * Worcestershire 1835

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External links

* . Includes digitized Pigot's & Slater's directories for England & Wales, various dates * {{citation , title=Historical Directories - Scotland , publisher=

National Library of Scotland The National Library of Scotland (NLS) ( gd, Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba, sco, Naitional Leebrar o Scotland) is the legal deposit library of Scotland and is one of the country's National Collections. As one of the largest libraries in the ...

, location=UK , url=http://www.nls.uk/family-history/directories/post-office/index.cfm?place=Scotland . Includes digitized Pigot's & Slater's directories for Scotland, various dates 1814 establishments in England 19th-century books Directories Public records