Maps

England

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Pages about maps

• Maps in the National Archives (Domestic Records Information 72), describes their many map collections of historic interest.

• Using The National Archives to search for Maps, Plans and Architectural Drawings (Domestic Records Information 132).

• The Ordnance Survey produce a wide range of useful maps. TNA Domestic Records Information Leaflet 20 relates to Ordnance Survey Records.

• Reproductions of many early large-scale Ordnance Survey maps for many areas are available from Alan Godfrey Maps.

• A list of Parish Maps in England provided by Common Ground.

Links to maps

In something approaching reverse chronological order.

• Gardiner's Atlas of English History - maps from "A School Atlas of English History" (edited by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, M.A. LL.D. and printed in London by Longmans, Green, and Co. in 1892).

• The Landmark Information Group have provided free online 19th Century Ordnance Survey maps linked from an extensive gazetteer. These are at a scale of 1:10,560 (6 inches to the mile) and cover all of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). (Maps vary between 1840 and 1890.)

• Lewis' (c.1840) maps of England & Wales have been put online by MapCo.

• Maps of England and Wales in 1643 (808k) and 1660-1892 (479k) which were obtained courtesy of Ancestry, who retain copyright and reserve all rights in them.

• Scans of original maps or etchings can be found at (site now requires a subscription): Your Maps Online.

• Deana Fowler has digitised the 1931 Ordnance Survey Map of Roman Britain and has made it available online.

• GENUKI trustee David Hawgood has produced tactile and large print maps for the 1835 English counties.

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