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Robert Aitken's map of Little Cumbrae. In the 1827 'proposal' document Aitken had promised subscribers that the maps would also carry information such as the names of every house within the Parishes, whole Roads, Turnpike, Parochial, and Private; names of the Rivers and Streams; names of the principal Heritors, and "sundry Statistical and Historical Notices." [6] These 'sundry statistics ...
The originals of his maps, which are preserved in the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, are characterised by neatness and accuracy. Pont's manuscript maps are key historical documents for their time, of importance in the study of place-names, settlements, and other studies. Many of the maps have miniature drawings of major buildings ...
Canmore is an online database or index to information on over 320,000 archaeological sites, monuments, and buildings in Scotland. It was launched by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland in 1997 as the C omputer A pplication for N ational MO numents R ecord E nquiries.
The atlas is notable for being the first of its kind, but also for its quality. According to historian and cartobibliographer Jeffrey C. Stone, "Blaeu's portrayal of the Scottish landscape far exceeded, in both accuracy and content, anything previously published, or indeed anything to follow for more than a hundred years"; Stone argues that the century following its publication saw nothing of ...
The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS) is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, [1] although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801.
The Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series maps were produced from the 1840s to the 1890s by the Ordnance Survey, with revisions published until the 1940s. The series mapped the counties of Great Britain at both a six inch and twenty-five inch scale with accompanying acreage and land use information.
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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Scotland portal; Pages in category "Historical geography of Scotland" The following 5 pages are in this ...