Maps for HistoriansA revised and updated edition of the author's Maps for Local History which was published in 1988. This is a practical, comprehensive, and user-friendly guide to the provenance, content, accuracy, location and uses of English and Welsh historical maps, which also charts their development from medieval times to the Ordnance Survey. The text is richly illustrated with examples of each type of map discussed. |
Contents
One Early Maps of Britain | 1 |
Three Estate Enclosure and Tithe Maps | 29 |
Four Town Plans | 54 |
Copyright | |
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19th century 25-inch plans 6-inch maps accuracy accurate arable areas awards Bridge Britain British canal cartographic Catalogue Chapter Christopher Saxton Church copied county maps Cumberland depicted detail drawn EAST KEAL edition Emmison England and Wales Environs maps Essex estate maps estate plans example existing Gough Map Green Greenwood Hall Hill Hindle historian History Hodson House Hyde inches included Isle Jefferys John John Norden John Rocque Kain Kent Lancashire land landowners landscape large scale plans later Leeds Library Manchester manuscript maps Map Collector map-makers maps show Margary Matthew Paris mile Mill Norden North Ogilby Ogilby's Old Series Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey maps Printed Maps produced Record Office reprinted revised River road maps Rocque Rocque's route Salford Saxton scale maps sheets shire shown Speed Street surveyors survive Sussex tion tithe maps Tooley town plans turnpike types of maps urban usually West Yard Yates Yorkshire