Re: Locating address mid 1600's

That is a fairly pointless and far too vague question in its present form.

It rather depends on WHO the people were and what their social status
was. If it was the lord of the manor and his family, then it should be
relatively easy to find out where they lived since they probably had a large
manor house. Equally, if it was a farmer with a largish estate it should
probably be possible to locate it. Likewise, the vicar, a pub or the village
blacksmith. However, if it was just an ordinary ag lab and his family who
probably lived in a tumbledown hovel, then you've got little chance since
it's unlikely it would have been recorded.

One of the first things newcomers entering family history should learn is
to discard all mindsets of modern values and attitudes! In the mid-1600s
there was very rarely any such thing as an address. Roads didn't usually
get to be named until the mid-19th century and often numbered even
later. If a stranger arrived in a village in the 17th century and asked
where someone lived, there would be enough people around to give
them directions. Very few ordinary people either sent or received letters,
so there was no need for formal addresses.

Certainly, it's worth finding out if there is a local history society and the
county record office must also be an obvious first calling place. They, if
anyone, should know what maps are available for the period - if any. It's
worth asking about glebe terriers, which listed lands and tithes belong to
the church in a parish. Later there were tithe maps but these were quite a
bit later (19th century). In the case of sizeable properties there may be
deeds, which would probably be at the county RO or a deeds registry -
Yorkshire, for instance, has the West Riding Deeds Registry with records
going back to 1704.

Use a bit of imagination and try to discover everything you can about the
history of the village. In some places there were early unofficial
censuses, like ecclesiastical censuses to establish who was going to
church and who wasn't. Some of these still exist and have been listed in
a booklet. But since you tell us nothing whatsoever about the village, its
name or what county it was in, it's very hard to offer any serious advice.