Ordnance Survey Maps: A Concise Guide for Historians

Richard R. Oliver

Charles Close Society, 2005 - Technology & Engineering - 256 pages

Bringing together various lists, most hitherto unpublished, of large-scale mapping in the United Kingdom, this text provides map users, map curators and others with a description of each Ordnance Survey map scale as a source of information for the study of the landscape.

Contents

• List of illustrations: 6
• The development of the Ordnance Survey: 15
• some general points: 21
• Scales and characteristics of Ordnance Survey maps: 30
• Some Ordnance Survey definitions and terminology: 58
• Notes on the depiction of detail: 68
• Ordnance Survey mapping of towns: 136
• Ordnance Survey mapping of counties: 185
• Air photographs and air photo mosaics: 227
• Select bibliography: 240
• Index to subjects and people: 251

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ordnance Survey Maps: A Concise Guide for Historians
• Author: Richard R. Oliver
• Contributor: Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Charles Close Society, 2005
• ISBN: 1870598245, 9781870598248
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Technology & Engineering / Cartography