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1818: Christopher Greenwood's Map of Yorkshire; 1818: Henry Teesdale’s Map of Yorkshire; 1828: Map of the county of York, made on the basis of triangles in the county, determined by Lieutenant Coll. Wm Mudge, Royal Artillery, F.R.S. and Captain Thomas Colby, Royal Engineers, in the Trigonometrical Survey of England, by order of the Honourable Board of Ordnance, and surveyed in the years 1815 ...
Ground penetrating radar is a tool used in archaeological field surveys. In archaeology, survey or field survey is a type of field research by which archaeologists (often landscape archaeologists) search for archaeological sites and collect information about the location, distribution and organization of past human cultures across a large area (e.g. typically in excess of one hectare, and ...
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.
A version of the book, "The traveller's guide or, a most exact description of the roads of England", in a smaller format and without any maps, was published in 1699 by Abel Swall. [ 14 ] Ogilby's Britannia inspired and provided the model for Britannia Depicta or Ogilby improv'd published by Emanuel Bowen and John Owen in 1720.
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.
DIG is owned and operated by York Archaeology, a division of York Archaeological Trust, a registered charity. [1] It is based in St Saviour's Church, one of York's medieval churches, which became redundant in the 1950s [2] and was acquired by the Trust in 1975. Between 1990 and 2005, the building was called the Archaeological Resource Centre.
A survey of Attingham Park in Shropshire also revealed evidence about the city of Wroxeter, Iron Age farmsteads and a Second World War airfield. Archaeological survey of land to aid nature ...
Map of England & Wales by John Adams (1677), updated by Philip Lea (1692) Map of England & Wales by John Adams (1679) In July 1677 it was announced in the London Gazette that John Adams "of the Inner-Temple" had produced "A New Large Map of England full six foot square", [9] enabling merchants and armchair travellers for the first time to see at a glance the "computed and measured miles ...