Hi Listers This was posted to the Warwick list, but I thought parts of it were also appropriate to this list, so am forwarding it on. Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: wendy boland To: WARWICK-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 7:21 AM Subject: [WAR] Fantastic Web site for MAPS Hi Listers Just found this web site- I haven't seen it before (and I do a lot of trawling- 10 hours straight is my record- must get a life) Haven't seen it mentioned before on any Lists either. http://go.to/genmaps as an example I have just looked at the canal routes from Coventry to Fradley Heath Stafford Will cut and paste so you can see what's available. Warwickshire. 1743 Grose's Antiquities of Britain. Warwickshire. 1762 Thomas Kitchin. Steve Bartrick Antique Prints & Maps Coventry County . 1762 Thomas Kitchin (detail of map above) Steve Bartrick Antique Prints & Maps 'A Plan of the Navigable Canal, Now Making from the City of Coventry. To Communicate with the Grand Canal upon Fradley Heath, in the County of Stafford'. 1771 John Lodge A Plan of the Navigable Canal now making between the City of Coventry and the City of Oxford. 1771 Gentlemans Magazine A plan of the Navigable Canal from Birmingham in the County of Warwick to the canal at Aldersley near Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford, with a collateral cut to the coal mines at Wednesbury. 1771 Gentlemen'sMagazine Warwickshire. 1787 John Cary in "A New and Correct Atlas Warwickshire. 1793 John Cary Robert Ross & Co. Parts of Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire. 1794 John Cary rchampagnewishes Coventry-street plan. 1801 George Cole and John Walker Birmingham. 1819 Author unknown Warwickshire. 1829 James Pigot Birmingham Area. 1820/30 John Cary Steve Bartrick Antique Prints & Maps Warwick. ca.1835 Lt. Robert Dawson Birmingham. town plan. 1839 Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK) Warwickshire. 1840 J. Archer in Dugdale's "England & Wales Delineated". Birmingham . 184? J.Bartholomew. Warwickshire . 1846 Sidney Hall in "A Travelling County Atlas" Steve Bartrick Antique Prints & Maps Birmingham area. 1846 Sidney Hall (detail of map above) Steve Bartrick Antique Prints & Maps Warwickshire. 1848 Robert Creighton Birmingham Area . 1848 Thomas Moule Birmingham area. 1860 J.Bartholomew. (detail from "England & the Isle of Wight") Birmingham. 1861. Plan of street barriers during the Birmingham Musical Festival, 1861. Printed by R.B. Moody Birmingham. ca.1863 Edward Weller in "The Weekly Dispatch". Warwickshire . ca.1870 W. Hughes Warwickshire. ca.1870 W. Hughes for Virtue's "Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland". Birmingham. -city plan. 1883 George W. Bacon in 'The New Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles' Warwickshire ca.1890 Ordnance Survey (detailed maps) Plan of Birmingham. 1892 J. Bartholomew in "Black's Handy Atlas" Warwickshire. 1892 George Phillp and Son in "Phillips Handy Atlas" Birmingham area. 1895 Gall & Inglis (detail from lithographic reproduction of John Cary's 2 inches/mile map originally produced between 1820 and 1830.) Steve Bartrick Antique Prints & Maps Walsall-Birmingham area. 1897 detail from Encyclopaedia Britannia Coventry, Warwick, Stratford area. 1897 Karl Baedeker in "Handbook for Travellers". Warwickshire. 1899 Encyclopaedia Brittannica ( large scale, clickable map) Stratford-on-Avon. town-plan(and detail) 1900 K.Baedeker Coventry .town-plan 1900 K.Baedeker Birmingham .town-plan(and detail) 1900 K.Baedeker Central Birmingham .town-plan(and detail) 1900 K.Baedeker Stratford on Avon. 1908 J.Ross Brown (detailed zoomable map) Birmingham. 1922 G.Bartholomew. (detail from "The Towns of England" in The Times Atlas) Stratford on Avon. 1924 Muirhead "The Blue Guide" And that's just for Warwickshire Enjoy Wendy in Oz ==== WARWICK Mailing List ==== Coventry FHS: http://covfhs.demon.co.uk