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- The map uses a 1925 Ordnance Survey of Cambridge as its template, because it is "easier to map buildings which have disappeared using historic property boundaries on older maps".
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The map uses a 1925 Ordnance Survey as its template and lays onto it the location of long-gone buildings such as the medieval Barnwell Priory. The hidden history of Cambridge stretching...
Dec 7, 2023 · The date of the base map survey, 1925, reveals a changing Cambridge, with Fen Causeway under construction and Burrells’ Walk covered in temporary housing, a few years before the establishment there of the new University Library.
Nov 26, 2023 · The map uses a 1925 Ordnance Survey as its template and lays onto it the location of long-gone buildings such as the medieval Barnwell Priory
The base for the Cambridge map is the 1925 Ordnance Survey and it incorporates much new information from recent documentary and archaeological research. It continues Cambridge’s story into the 19th and early 20th centuries, and uses a much wider range of colours and symbols to distinguish features.
Dec 5, 2023 · The new publication uses the Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1925 as its base, and incorporates much new information from documentary and archaeological research since the first map was published in 1975.
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