On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:47:25 +0100, Amanda Kerby <[email protected]> wrote: > Any chance someone local could please tell me if Prior Hill still > exists today? I have googled and got all my old Ordnance Survey maps > out and still no luck finding it!!! On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:00:18 +0100, Chris Jefferies <[email protected]> wrote: > On the 1880 map the words "Priors Hill Fort (Site of)"appear at the > junction of Fremantle St and Kingsdown Parade. > the street is only partly built on the 1855 map and on the 1828 map the > area is green fieldscalled Nine Tree Hill so cannot be Godwin St in > 1787. The streets just south of Fremantle St suchas Somerset St or Dove > St(was Dove Cote Lane) are in St James Out Parish and are on the 1750 > map. Hi Amanda, If you have a look at the 1789 map of St. Michaels Hill, King's Down and the Gallows, Bristol, which is on my web site http://www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com/bristolbits/bristol/kingsdown.htm you will see some of the streets, which Chris has mentioned. On this map the street which later became Dove Street is spelt Dove Coat Lane and Somerset Street is along the fold in the map. The map is part of a bigger map from The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol by William Barrett (1789). Josephine

These pre OS old maps like the one on Josephine's web site are very confusing until you realise that north is not up as on modern maps. Somerset Street runs almost NE (40 deg) but on this map it goes about ESE (110 deg) so is 70 Deg out so up is around WNW. The 1750 Rocque map is the same so is probably drawn by the same person. The Ashmead maps also are also not drawn with north up but are only 20 deg out so up is around NNW. This is why the map edges and folds on the older maps on Know Your Place are at an angle to the later OS maps. Chris Jefferies Cheltenham Glos -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josephine Jeremiah Sent: 08 October 2012 20:22 To: [email protected] Subject: [B&S] Map of St. Michaels Hill, King's Down and the Gallows, 1789 (Godwin Street, Prior Hill, St James Bristol 1787) On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:47:25 +0100, Amanda Kerby <[email protected]> wrote: > Any chance someone local could please tell me if Prior Hill still > exists today? I have googled and got all my old Ordnance Survey maps > out and still no luck finding it!!! On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:00:18 +0100, Chris Jefferies <[email protected]> wrote: > On the 1880 map the words "Priors Hill Fort (Site of)"appear at the > junction of Fremantle St and Kingsdown Parade. > the street is only partly built on the 1855 map and on the 1828 map > the area is green fieldscalled Nine Tree Hill so cannot be Godwin St > in 1787. The streets just south of Fremantle St suchas Somerset St or > Dove St(was Dove Cote Lane) are in St James Out Parish and are on the > 1750 map. Hi Amanda, If you have a look at the 1789 map of St. Michaels Hill, King's Down and the Gallows, Bristol, which is on my web site http://www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com/bristolbits/bristol/kingsdown.htm you will see some of the streets, which Chris has mentioned. On this map the street which later became Dove Street is spelt Dove Coat Lane and Somerset Street is along the fold in the map. The map is part of a bigger map from The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol by William Barrett (1789). Josephine ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:33:55 +0100, Chris Jefferies <[email protected]> wrote: > These pre OS old maps like the one on Josephine's web site are very > confusing until you realise that north is not up as on modern maps. > Somerset Street runs almost NE (40 deg) but on this map it goes about > ESE (110 deg) so is 70 Degout so up is around WNW. Hi Chris and Listers, Strangely enough, it's never occurred to me that north is not up on these old maps. I suppose it must be because I've been familiar with the layout of Bristol on old maps from my childhood, when I purchased a facsimile of Millerd's Plan of Bristol of 1673 from Bristol Museum for 2s.6d. Millerd's Plan of Bristol of 1673 is shown on the following web page along with William Smith's view of Bristol of 1568 and Hofnagle's map of Brightstowe of 1581: http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/bhr/Main/intro/2_methods.htm I've never found old maps like these confusing, but that's because, from a young age, the names of a number of the streets etc., on such maps, were known to me and I could see the locations in my mind's eye. Josephine