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Large scale map of York was surveyed between 1849 and 1851 by Captain Tucker R.E. for the Ordnance Map Office. The original map is drawn at a scale of five feet to one statute mile (1:1056).
The Ordnance Survey mapped about 4,000 cities and towns in England and Wales at a scale of 1:1056 in the 1850's and towards the end of the 19th century mapped many at the larger scale of 1:500. Of this set, sheets 5 and 12 are imaged from copies at the National Library of Scotland.
Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952. The most comprehensive, topographic mapping covering all of England and Wales from the 1840s to the 1950s. Two editions for all areas, and then regular updates in the 20th century for urban or rapidly changing areas. Browse the maps:
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- Interpreting Survey and Revision Dates
Map content, principal exclusions, placenames, and survey and revision datesThis website allows all of the flat-sheet holdings of OS six-inch to the mile County Series maps of England and Wales held by NLS to be viewed. We have attempted to include all our unbound holdings of these maps, which are probably comprehensive from ca. 1890 onwards. However, the principal exclusions are: 1. Earliest editions of some full sheet ma...
The Ordnance Survey six-inch maps record most man-made and natural features in the landscape. Every road, railway, field, fence, wall, stream and building is shown, and even smaller features such as letter boxes, bollards on quaysides, mile posts, and flag-staffs. Uncultivated land is distinguished by different symbols for marsh, bog, and rough gra...
The value of the maps for historical purposes is both qualified and enhanced by a realisation of their limitations. For urban areas, the larger scale maps show much greater detail (the 1:1,056 scale maps are 10 times larger, the 1:500 over 20 times larger). For cultivated rural areas, the 25 inch includes acreages of land parcels, and shows better ...
The procedures for naming places within the Survey's mapping practices were laid down first in Lincolnshire and, in more detail, in Ireland from 1825 by Thomas Colby. In 'Instructions for the Interior Survey of Ireland', Colby spelled out the guidance for mapping parties on the question of the correct names of places: 'The persons employed on the s...
The OS six-inch mapping represented the first comprehensive survey of all of England and Wales at a consistent scale and specification. Read more about surveying, levelling and contouringtechniques. The whole country was initially surveyed between 1842 and 1893. Following the recommendations of the Ordnance Survey Dorington Committee in 1893, all c...
In general, our aim on this website has been to record two dates for each map: an initial date when the map was surveyed or revised, and a later date of publication. In practice, this is not as straightforward as it sounds, and the following notes help the interpretation of date information: 1. Following the initial survey of counties in the 1840s-...
This set of large scale plans of York, Yorkshire, was surveyed between 1849 and 1851 by Captain Tucker R.E. for the Ordnance Map Office. Hand colored highly detailed, folded to 66.5x49, mounted on cloth.
Although the first Ordnance Survey map was published in 1801, it was many years before it produced detailed maps of the whole country. For many places, the oldest large-scale Ordnance Survey map...
Sheet 1: York. Surveyed in 1850, by Captain Tucker; R.E. Engraved in 1851, under the direction of Captain Yolland, R.E. at the Ordnance Map Office, Southampton, and Published by Lt. Colonel Hall R.E. Superintendent, 1st. Sept., 1852.
