Ordance Survey Maps 6" 1842-1952

[bag 'o' bones]

Just read Nicknormans thread regarding historical google earth images so thought I'd add to the fun with this link to the National Library of Scotland.

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=6&lat=56.71138&lon=-4.9&layers=B000000TFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

 

On the page you will find pull down menu that allows you select OS mapping for the whole of the UK.

 

The English OS site will try to charge you £8.99 a pop for the same thing!

 

If you have never seen this site before I guarantee you will spending a few hours looking at it!

 

Have fun.

[David Mack]

Just read Nicknormans thread regarding historical google earth images so thought I'd add to the fun with this link to the National Library of Scotland.

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=6&lat=56.71138&lon=-4.9&layers=B000000TFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

 

On the page you will find pull down menu that allows you select OS mapping for the whole of the UK.

 

The English OS site will try to charge you £8.99 a pop for the same thing!

 

If you have never seen this site before I guarantee you will spending a few hours looking at it!

 

Have fun.

Too true!!

[The Bagdad Boatman (waits)]

much quicker responce then some sites.

[Sas]

Just read Nicknormans thread regarding historical google earth images so thought I'd add to the fun with this link to the National Library of Scotland.

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=6&lat=56.71138&lon=-4.9&layers=B000000TFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

 

On the page you will find pull down menu that allows you select OS mapping for the whole of the UK.

 

The English OS site will try to charge you £8.99 a pop for the same thing!

 

 

If you have never seen this site before I guarantee you will spending a few hours looking at it!

 

Oooh shiny!!!!! Thanks SO much for posting this. It gives me yet another excuse to swerve the washing!!!! :-))

 

[Ange]

What a great site! Thanks for posting a linky to it. We like exploring dismantled railway lines and trying to suss out where the station buildings were so old maps are always useful. Plus it's interesting finding disused canals where the course is no longer obvious.

 

Cheers!

[Peter X]

Greenie for the OP, this is a fascinating resource I didn't know of. Well done Scotland, please don't start charging for this!

I had a quick look around my area on it and learned a thing or two.

[Peter X]

I had a look at Kent sheet XV from 1871, the oldest for the area, which shows a few remnants in South Norwood labelled "Old Canal" of the Croydon Canal which had been sold and converted to railways in about 1836 I think. Unless railways go out of fashion I think it's probably the most impossible old canal in England to restore! Is there another somewhere which has been more thoroughly destroyed?

[Tony K]

 

If you have never seen this site before I guarantee you will spending a few hours looking at it!

 

Have fun.

 

Fantastic - much better than the 'source' I used to use - thanks bag 'o' bones