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Statistical accounts
Essential reading for your county/parish of interest.
Puts your ancestors’ lives in the context of the time.
Old (1791-1799) and New (1834-1845) are readily available online, the even newer (post WW2) accounts exist.
Browsable at the National Data Centre of the University of Edinburgh (EDiNA)
Many (all?) available free for downloading at google books