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The original draftsman's drawings for the area around St Columb Major in Cornwall, made in 1810. Detail from 1901 Ordnance Survey map of the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda (showing St. George's Town and St. George's Garrison), compiled from surveys carried out between 1897 and 1899 by Lieutenant Arthur Johnson Savage, Royal Engineers.
The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales.
An Account of the Trigonometrical Survey carried on by Order of the Master-General of His Majesty's Ordnance. Volume III, 1800–1809. W. Faden. OCLC 10644787. Owen, Tim; Pilbeam, Elaine (1992). Ordnance Survey, map makers to Britain since 1791. Southampton: Ordnance Survey (HMSO). ISBN 9780319002490. OCLC 28220563. Roy, William (1785).
The Ordnance Survey Drawings are a series of 351 of the original preliminary drawings made by the surveyors of the Ordnance Survey between the 1780s and 1840 in preparation for the publication of the one-inch-to-the-mile "Old Series" of maps of England and Wales.
The Jerusalem map was printed privately for the Board of Ordnance in August 1841. It was published in a reduced form in Alderson's ‘’Professional Papers of the Royal Engineers’’ in 1845, [3] and subsequently as a supplement to the 1849 second edition of Reverend George Williams' The Holy City: Historical, Topographical, and Antiquarian Notices of Jerusalem together with a 130-page ...
Prior to the publication of large scale Ordnance Survey maps in the late 19th century, tithe maps were frequently copied (in whole or part) for other purposes: for example in connection with planned railways, or as part of the title deeds transferred on a sale of land. More recently, tithe maps and apportionments have often been used for ...
Despite its reputation as a historical time capsule, the city of Newport has gone through many changes since it was first settled in 1639.
1800 Laurie & Whittle [18] 1816 Ordnance Survey; 1818 Christopher & John Greenwood [17] 1819 Ordnance Survey; 1830 Ordnance Survey; 1823 Bryant [18] 1824 Christopher Greenwood (Map of London) 1825 Christopher Greenwood [20] 1832 Cary (Map of Deptford) 1843 Ordnance Survey; 1844 Ordnance Survey; 1850 C Knight [18] 1863 Ordnance Survey; 1893 ...