The National Library of Scotland has announced a
major new online resource for family historians - a collection of English and
Welsh maps covering more than 100 years.
The highly detailed
zoomable maps of England and Wales from 1842 to 1952 allow anyone to browse
through a catalogue of place names, modern street names, postcodes and grid
references. You can access the maps at maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-england-and-wales/info1.html.
The website compiles
37,390 sheets, including 35,124 quarter sheets of A2 size, and 2,236 full
sheets at A0 size, which makes for a wide range of search options.
The National Library of
Scotland’s map digitisation work in recent years has been externally funded,
leading to a recent expansion in map images beyond Scotland including a
Victorian plan of London which was uploaded last year.
The Ordnance Survey
six-inch mapping system is the most detailed map scale to cover England and
Wales and can record most man-made features in the landscape such as
roads, railways, fields, fencing, streams and buildings. Smaller features such
as letterboxes, bollards and mileposts can also be seen.
For many of
the towns featured, the maps show the detailed urbanisation and rapidly
changing landscape from 1914 through to the 1940s thanks to 25 inch to the mile
mapping.
Although
images can only be viewed individually, you have the option via the map group
tool to look at an area from the 1840’s up until 1952.
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