Identity area
Reference code
A 13.
Title
Kite place names,
Date(s)
- 1995-1999. (Creation)
Level of description
Ffeil = File
Extent and medium
1 envelope (1 cm.).
Context area
Name of creator
(b. 1928)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Lists of 'gled', 'kit' and 'puttock' placenames from the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Gazetteer, 4th ed., 1999; lists of latest breeding record or presence by county, statements on the distribution of kites in British bird books published at least 1802-1959; extracts relating to kites from county histories, faunas and ornithologies, including the 'Victoria County History' for England and the 'Old' and 'New Statistical Accounts' for Scotland. Also several references to kites in archaeological sites and churchwardens' accounts.