![]() ![]() Some of these expand our coverage of the Ordnance Survey's Ten-mile to the Inch (1:625,000) Planning maps series, initiated in the 1940s, and intended to form a survey of national life and resources. These maps present an excellent overview of England, Scotland and Wales, and sometimes including Ireland, showing specific subjects such as roads, railways, air travel, population, power generation, rainfall and housing, as well as things like changing administrative divisions. We are also pleased to add online over 200 maps of Great Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. Georeferenced layer, side by side - 1:1,250 scale (16 towns/cities in England and Wales).Georeferenced layer, side by side - 1:10,560 scale (England and Scotland).Ordnance Survey Air Photo Mosaics, 1944-1950.The mosaics were produced as an interim measure by Ordnance Survey as a quick and cheap expedient before proper paper mapping could be surveyed, to assist with post-War planning and reconstruction. These towns and cities had often sustained Second World War bomb damage, which can be clearly seen too. They cover 20% of the British landscape at 1:10,560 scale (showing useful information about fields, farms, roads, railways and woodland), and 16 towns/cities in England and Wales at 1:1,250 scale (with excellent detail of urban topography including buildings and industrial premises). These 6,193 air photo mosaics provide detailed information on the landscape of England and Wales in the 1940s, complementing the Scottish air photo mosaics which we have had online since 2009. One-Inch New Popular, England and Wales.One-Inch 5th edition, England and Wales, 1931-1937 - 131 sheets.One-Inch 'Popular' edition, England and Wales, 1919-1926 - 288 sheets.One-Inch 3rd Edition (Black Outline Edition), 1906-1917 - 54 sheets.One-Inch Engraved Maps, England and Wales, 1872-1914 - 2,229 sheets. ![]() The new maps also include the military series GSGS 3907, published during the Second World War, and GSGS 4620 from the later 1940s. These new maps include our main flat sheet holdings of these maps from the New Series in the 1870s, through to the New Popular and its variants in the 1940s. One-inch maps are often useful for researching larger landscape features, such as roads, railways, settlements, woodland, or lakes and reservoirs, supplementing the main record of landscape change at the larger basic six-inch and 25-inch to the mile scales. These new maps include some of Ordnance Survey's most treasured series including the Popular edition in the 1920s and the 5th edition in the 1930s. We have added 2,408 One-Inch to the Mile maps of England and Wales online.
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