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- The OS six-inch mapping represented the first comprehensive survey of all of England and Wales at a consistent scale and specification.
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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 contouring techniques. The whole country was initially surveyed between 1842 and 1893.
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.
The first thorough survey of England was in 1086 when William the Conqueror ordered the production of the Domesday Book. This detailed inventory of land and property was a massive undertaking...
- What are these records? The 1939 Register provides a snapshot of the civilian population of England and Wales just after the outbreak of the Second World War.
- When and why the Register was compiled. The 1939 Register was taken on 29 September 1939. The information was used to produce identity cards and, once rationing was introduced in January 1940, to issue ration books.
- What and who the Register records. The 1939 Register was designed to capture the details of every member of the civilian population on a specific date – military personnel were not recorded (see below for more information on who was and wasn’t recorded).
- How the Register was compiled and arranged. Information is arranged by: – each enumeration district has a unique four- or five-letter code, and large enumeration districts may comprise more than one book.
The last one-inch map of the primary survey of England published. 1890–1904: Geikie develops a series of great Stratigraphical Memoirs, on the Pliocene, Jurassic, Cretaceous and Silurian rocks of Britain. 1889–1896: Colour printed quarter-inch to the mile maps published. 1893
The OS one-inch series, which the OS Director General Sir Charles Wilson called "the standard map of the country" (1892), was first published in 1805 as the Old Series, covering England and Wales by 1869.
OS history. Discover the history of Ordnance Survey. Beginnings. The name Ordnance Survey hints at how it all began. Britain’s mapping agency has its roots in military strategy: mapping the Scottish Highlands following rebellion in 1745.
