Historical OS Maps of England & Wales Online
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Many thanks for the positive feedback on this project.
And thanks Ian for the constructive comments, these are always much appreciated and help us improve our resources. So just to answer those...
The date range you mention, that appears in the breadcrumb trail at the top left of the page, has been updated. Well spotted! Previously it displayed the date range covering all editions of OS 6 Inch Eng and Wales mapping as it links back to the main introductory page for this entire series. To avoid confusion, it should now show the narrower date range specific to the 2nd Edition mapping that forms the seamless layer on display.
In terms of dates of specific sheets, we currently don't have a method that returns this in our Explore viewer. I can understand why this would be useful, particularly as the spread of dates for this layer is quite wide. We may try to add some dynamism that would display a date or date range that reflects just the area of mapping onscreen. At present, however, the best way to look up dates of specific sheets is to use our Find By Place viewer.
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=6&lat=53.39954&lon=-3.0305&layers=B000000TFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFF
This basically works like a set of interactive map indexes. The boxes displayed are the sheetlines of each individual sheet that makes up the entire series. If you zoom in to the area you are interested in, then click on the map, the available sheets and their dates will be displayed as thumbnails on the right-hand-side. Clicking these thumbnails then opens a zoomable version of the individual sheet. Unlike the georeferenced layer, these images all include the marginalia so if you zoom in you can really explore all the various dates of survey, revision, publication, levelling etc.
Hope this helps. Again, thanks for the comments.
And thanks Ian for the constructive comments, these are always much appreciated and help us improve our resources. So just to answer those...
The date range you mention, that appears in the breadcrumb trail at the top left of the page, has been updated. Well spotted! Previously it displayed the date range covering all editions of OS 6 Inch Eng and Wales mapping as it links back to the main introductory page for this entire series. To avoid confusion, it should now show the narrower date range specific to the 2nd Edition mapping that forms the seamless layer on display.
In terms of dates of specific sheets, we currently don't have a method that returns this in our Explore viewer. I can understand why this would be useful, particularly as the spread of dates for this layer is quite wide. We may try to add some dynamism that would display a date or date range that reflects just the area of mapping onscreen. At present, however, the best way to look up dates of specific sheets is to use our Find By Place viewer.
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=6&lat=53.39954&lon=-3.0305&layers=B000000TFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFF
This basically works like a set of interactive map indexes. The boxes displayed are the sheetlines of each individual sheet that makes up the entire series. If you zoom in to the area you are interested in, then click on the map, the available sheets and their dates will be displayed as thumbnails on the right-hand-side. Clicking these thumbnails then opens a zoomable version of the individual sheet. Unlike the georeferenced layer, these images all include the marginalia so if you zoom in you can really explore all the various dates of survey, revision, publication, levelling etc.
Hope this helps. Again, thanks for the comments.
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That is soooh cool - my employers will be after you! I am spending far too much time visiting friends' post codes and waggling the transparency slider to and fro'...
S
(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)
(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)
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Very nice resource. Better quality scans than digimap!
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https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by ... =ESRIWorld
Love side by side so I can see historic places and modern access to them
Love side by side so I can see historic places and modern access to them
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+1 and then some. Nothing else like it. I used it recently when someone asked where a particular church building had been in town. Showed a map of the town when it was there, and the same road now. You can see exactly which building replaced it.ClappedOut wrote: ↑4 May 2021, 8:05pm https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by ... =ESRIWorld
Love side by side so I can see historic places and modern access to them
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I have used the NLS map resource extensively. Around here there are masses of historical sites and ruins. I can plan road and off-road rides or walks to visit sites visible on the aerial overlay or refer back to the historical maps to identify something I had seen en-route.
The older I get the more I’m inclined to act my shoe size, not my age.
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Thank you so much for putting these maps online for free.
I love maps and usually after visiting anywhere new, I go to your site and explore the past.
My favourite website.
I love maps and usually after visiting anywhere new, I go to your site and explore the past.
My favourite website.
- simonineaston
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Folks who enjoy the vibe of the nls web pages will also enjoy the know your place project. https://maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/?edition=
I'm using it at the mo' to work out the paths of rivers, like the Frome, which have existed for centuries but nowadays are mostly hidden in culverts. Occasionally you can hear them as you cycle past a strategic point, but as to where exactly they lie is harder to tell.
I'm using it at the mo' to work out the paths of rivers, like the Frome, which have existed for centuries but nowadays are mostly hidden in culverts. Occasionally you can hear them as you cycle past a strategic point, but as to where exactly they lie is harder to tell.
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(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)
(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)
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ps it's just occured to me to wonder whether any of you map-orientated readers know of an online resource that shows the lie of waterways in culverts? By defintion, they're not a feature that's shown on most maps 'cos they're invisible as they're underground, but there might be a layer available somewhere that display waterways their whole length... any ideas?
S
(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)
(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)
Re: Historical OS Maps of England & Wales Online
What a fabulous resource - thank you.Cheesedisease wrote: ↑12 Mar 2014, 5:43pm National Library of Scotland - New Online Map Resource – OS six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952 – 37,000 sheets
http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-england-and ... index.html
Never thought to broadcast the map resources we create at work, but as we just finished making our largest ever resource available online, and with it stepping south of the border, I thought it might be of interest to some here. Maps always seem to get a warm response from fellow cyclists, so if you fancy plotting your cycle routes along historical lines now's you chance!
You can also explore Scotland and a vast number of other maps geographically here too. All free!
http://maps.nls.uk/index.html
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore
Always wondered when my house was built, and I can now say pretty definitively - since the first photograph which includes it has just a handful of houses on the estate.
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There are two kinds of people in this world: those can extrapolate from incomplete data.