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- There are several maps of County Durham from the 16th century onwards in the Durham County Library Collection ref: D/CL. Use the Catalogue Index or scroll down to go to reference D/CL 23. See Pictures in Print to view maps and prints before 1860 online.
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Find information on this page about County Durham historic mapping that you can view online: search interactive maps; search Durham Collieries; You will also find details of the Ordnance Survey, tithe, estate and other maps held in the Record Office. For further information about maps and plans please see our Information Guide. Historic maps on ...
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Historic maps of County Durham. Our main collection of...
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Search interactive maps. Our GIS (Geographic Information System) interactive mapping system lets you overlay a variety of historical Ordnance Survey maps and aerial photograph surveys onto present day maps. Use the GIS to study the history of County Durham’s landscape and its development from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Background maps
County maps of Durham. Maps of the whole county or region, providing an overview of the physical and human landscape. For more detailed maps of rural areas, see Ordnance Survey maps from the 1840s. Browse county maps using a graphic index. Select the county map you wish to view.
Old maps of County Durham. The rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from source to sea, etc. [With “Rivers of the east coast”.] 1891. Cassell & Co.
- Introduction
- Access to Ordnance Survey (OS) Plans and Maps
- Copying
- North East England Maps
- Historic Maps of County Durham
- Ordnance Survey (OS) Plans
- Geological, Land Use and Land valuation Maps
- Key Plans
- Boundary Plans
- Road, River and Railway Plans
This guide gives a broad introduction to the range of maps and plans held at Durham Record Office, detailing some of the larger collections, and giving advice on how to identify and gain access to them. All technical drawings listed in our catalogues, whether of a topographic or architectural nature, are described as plans. To find any maps or plan...
The earliest OS plans are stored in the search room. All other plans are stored in strong rooms. Early OS plans can also be browsed, together with aerial photographs, on our online map viewer: Search interactive maps. Visit the Pictures in Printwebsite to see pre-1860 maps of County Durham held at Durham University Library (Archives and Special Col...
We can make high quality digital copies of all plans, other than the largest tithe plans, with our specialist overhead camera; please contact usby email to enquire about costs and media.
Our collection concentrates on County Durham but we do hold some regional maps, in particular those showing the northern coalfields or long-distance transport routes, which can be found along with the more local maps mentioned below.
Many later maps of the county are derived from these early examples but notable later plans include the Armstrong/Jefferys plan of 1768 (D/Lo/P 239, in 6 sheets, and D/X 99/38, in 32 sheets, both with various annotations), Greenwood’s plan of 1820 (D/St/P 20/2 and also D/Br/P 298, D/XP 112/1 and D/X 1417/1) and Bell’s plans of the Great Northern Co...
We have collected an almost complete set of the first four editions of OS County Series maps of County Durham and the surrounding areas at both 25 inches to the mile (1:2500) and 6 inches to the mile (1:10560). These were surveyed and published around 1860, 1895, 1915 and 1935. In most cases we also have a copy of the first post-war National Grid e...
Special editions of Ordnance Survey plans in our collection show: 1. deep and surface geology 2. mid 20th century land use 3. 1910 Inland Revenue land value assessments (catalogue reference IR) 4. locations of abandoned coal and lead mines (series D/HSE 65-66). See below for notes on Ordnance Survey 1:500 scale town plans.
A number of key plans for County Durham, showing the coverage of other plans and/or administrative boundaries, are included in our collection.
There is a series of Boundary Order maps in the Durham County Council records. These may be concerned with boundaries of civil parishes, polling districts, constituencies, etc. For maps before 1974 see catalogue section CC/X 185; for those after 1974 see DC/AA.
Some plans were produced to show a route to be travelled (similar to a modern road atlas). Other plans show wide areas of the county and beyond, where roads and railways were to be built or improved. These often show the adjacent villages, farms and roads in a lot of detail.
Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch England and Wales, 1842 - 1952 Durham. View a graphic index of sheets for Durham; View a georeferenced layer (1894-97) of sheets for Durham
Browse and view places with timeline, compare historical maps to see the evolution of a place
