Maps – Page 2 – www.chrisrcook.com

Map Stuff – Early August 2022 Update

And another 2026 map images from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series:

1564 Maps from Lancashire.
462 Maps from Warwickshire

Lancashire – 1664 Maps

Interesting places covered in Lancashire include:

Liverpool

Manchester

Blackpool

Warwickshire – 462 Maps

Interesting places covered in Warwickshire include:

Birmingham

Nuneaton

Warwick

Maps – Early July 2022 Update

I’ve added another 1108 map images:

422 maps from Cardiganshire.
686 maps from Cornwall.

Cardiganshire

A rather colourful image of Aberystwyth circa 1887

Interesting places covered in Cardiganshire include: Aberystwyth, Lampeter, and Aberaeron.

Cornwall

…And St Michael’s Mount. Again circa 1887.

Interesting places covered in Cornwall include: St Ives, Lands End, and St. Michael’s Mount

More Maps.

I’ve adde a little more to the maps thing.

First, I’ve added 300 additional maps from the mid 1850s – including York, Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Hull.

And second, I’ve added a local Google Search box which should make it easier to find various maps and locations. This can be found here.

The National Library of Scotland has placed parts of it’s rather a nice collection of old maps online. It’s all very modern – slippy, google maps style pages abound – and predominantly released under permissive licences. It is not, however, easy to get a full map for reuse in a school report or similar.

So I’ve run up a little code, grabbed some of the maps and put them on a new sub-site here. These maps are licensed by the NLS (as opposed to being in the public domain) and this license has carried down to my derivative work. As of writing, there are only seven of them, but I have several hundred more ready to go up shortly and a block of several thousand more to go up at some point after that.

Category: Maps