Historic maps. Both browsing and posters

https://maps.nls.uk/os/

I've bought a couple of old maps via NLS. Easy to work out what I was buying and they were nice

The website old maps was taken down because too many people (admittedly, including me) for commercial purposes. So now I use National Library of Scotland's maps which are less comprehensive but in an easier to use tool (no longer for commercial purposes!).

Just in case you skipped past the 3 posts above. The NLS georeferenced maps are pretty good

Doesn't necessarily help you very much, but there's a cafe/bar in Shrewsbury (Peaberry's) that has a huuuuuge print about 8ft wide by 6ft high of the 1900 1:2500 map of the town on one of its walls. A proper thing of beauty, and reason enough in itself to patronise the place. I can order a coffee or a meal and just stare at the map for hours. It shows every single building, every fence or wall, every path, every benchmark, arguably it shows individual trees in some locations; the detail is incredible.

Cheers all,

Map ordered from NLS.

I do like looking at old maps. Hours of fun to be had 

There's this one: https://www.oldmapsonline.org/

More for browsing than printing though

Off at a tangent. Anyone know what this is in my front garden in 1915?   

Possibly a glasshouse, it's diamonds in the shape of the building, so could be cropped down depending on the size.

I think that's the greenhouse symbol.

If you are using NLS then the map finder (where you start with a location) has older maps on it than the side-by-side viewer.

Orangery? Pineapplery?

(Posh git 😁)

https://www.archiuk.com/cgi-bin/get_victorian_old_maps_of_the_british_isles_ordnance_survey_1inch_1mile.pl?map_location=&ngr=&search_location=Bodmin%20Moor,%20Cornwall,%20SX1976,%20SX%2019%2076&os_series=0&is_sub=&pwd=&latitude=50.556211&longitude=-4.557690&placename=Bodmin%20Moor&TownName=BODMIN&county=Cornwall&postcode=

I find old maps fascinating and like comparing them to the tracks I ride in the South Downs. I use the service in the link above.

If anyone is interested in the history of map making the book on the history of the Ordnance Survey is excellent 

Trove.Scot is worth a play too.

Formerly Canmore it lists historic Scottish locations.

https://www.trove.scot/

Also links to the current OS maps with fine detail - you can see my garden shed !

Local Historian claims this is a Roman Road. I'm not convinced.

https://www.trove.scot/place/340376

It shows as a road from 1861 but a Roman road ?

https://maps.nls.uk/view/228780955

I don't think it is a glasshouse. 

Number 1. Glasshouse symbology is a hatch within a boundary and is standard (two examples provided show exactly the same orientation of the hatching and notable they don't"fit" thats intentional to indicate its a hatch). Harry's is an intentional symbol (the diamond is fitted to and orientated to its boundary.)

OS were incredible prescriptive on how things are drawn.

In the back of my head that symbology is for an underground chamber. I actually think it might be a communal cesspit, Harry is your house the bottom of the terrace? Shit runs downhill afterall...

If you go to nls and find it you can get the key either by viewing the full map i forget how you do it. Sometimes worth checking the other maps.

Antique Maps and Prints put up high res images of much of their stock. I bought a beautiful John Cary 1825 map of Cumberland and Westmorland from them and had it framed. It now has pride of place in our hallway.

https://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GB+%7C%7C+Warming+Campaign+%232&utm_id=01K1K2GB7MNJPPDNQFP5PY1HVN&_kx=bBvhqBlTZJV01_albvWgDrG3KexFRaq6L-CTucNPbk4.VAhhqX

I can spend hours looking at these. Last term I showed my students (in a country where national mapping is rubbish compared to OS) some details on an six inch 1860s map, farm buildings, ROW and a field boundary, and faded in the modern satellite view. They were gobsmacked at the accuracy of the old surveys.