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Item type: 1 map Medium: pen and ink with grey wash Dimensions: 37.2 x 68.5 cm Former owner: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 - Explore this item in the British Library’s catalogue - View all the illustrations found in this publication - Order a higher quality scanned version of this image from the British Library (maps_k_top_17_21)
The Topographical Collection of George III contains drawn and printed maps, views and atlases produced between 1500 and 1824. Read more about the collection here. Explore and experiment with the British Library’s digital collections. The British Library community is able to flourish online thanks to freely available resources such as this.
- Explore this item in the British Library’s catalogue - View all the illustrations found in this publication - Order a higher quality scanned version of this image from the British Library (maps_k_top_18_17_10_2_tab) The Topographical Collection of George III contains drawn and printed maps, views and atlases produced between 1500 and 1824.
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.
The atlas included such details as the configurations of hills, bridges, ferries and the relative size of towns. One hundred strip road maps are shown, accompanied by a double-sided page of text giving additional advice for the map's use, notes on the towns shown and the alternative pronunciations of their name. [6]
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The map browsing interface, showing thumbnail photos for each completed "geograph". Geograph Britain and Ireland is a web-based project, begun in March 2005, to create a freely accessible archive of geographically located photographs of Great Britain and Ireland. [1]