Billie's note reminded me that I hadn';t forwarded this note from Glamorgan list. I find this sitemuch easier to use that the old-maps web site. Dai -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [GLA] Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:37:14 -0000 From: Martin Briscoe [1]<martin@mbriscoe.me.uk> Reply-To: [2]martin@mbriscoe.me.uk To: 'glam' [3]<GLAMORGAN@rootsweb.com>, [4]<powys@rootsweb.com>, Gwynedd List [5]<WLS-GWYNEDD@rootsweb.com> These have been posted on various lists but I don't think they have been posted here The National Library of Scotland have added 1st and 2nd Edition 6" OS Map of England and Wales to their online collection. They already have more recent 1:25000 maps of England and Wales there as well as late 19th Century 60"(?) coverage of London. [6]http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-england-and-wales/index.html The NLS also some other series for England and Wales, particularly the 1:25000 [7]http://maps.nls.uk/index.html [8]http://maps.nls.uk/series/index.html Map Series of England, Wales and Great Britain: Ordnance Survey, Six-Inch, England and Wales - 1842-1952 - 37,390 sheets Ordnance Survey, 1:25,000 maps of Great Britain - 1937-1961 - 2,027 sheets Ordnance Survey, One-Inch Revised new series, England and Wales, 1892-1908 - 691 sheets Ordnance Survey, One-Inch New Popular edition, England and Wales, 1945-1947 - 114 sheets Ordnance Survey, One-Inch Seventh Series, Great Britain, 1952-1961 - 190 sheets Ordnance Survey, "ten mile" Planning Maps of the United Kingdom, 1944-1960 Not Yorkshire but these are worth looking at Town plans: Ordnance Survey Five feet to the mile, London, 1893-1896 - 753 sheets They have an excellent range of maps of Scotland online including the 25" OS which I have not seen online in England and Wales so just hope they extend coverage to include that but you can look up the sheet numbers. [9]http://maps.nls.uk/geo/records/ There are also some other projects [10]http://maps.nls.uk/projects/index.html Martin Briscoe Fort William [11]martin@mbriscoe.me.uk -- To send to the list send to [12]glamorgan@rootsweb.com GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at [13]http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html - This site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List [14]http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ - A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at [15]http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ - The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages [16]http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and [17]http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [18]GLAMORGAN-request@roo tsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. mailto:martin@mbriscoe.me.uk 2. mailto:martin@mbriscoe.me.uk 3. mailto:GLAMORGAN@rootsweb.com 4. mailto:powys@rootsweb.com 5. mailto:WLS-GWYNEDD@rootsweb.com 6. http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-england-and-wales/index.html 7. http://maps.nls.uk/index.html 8. http://maps.nls.uk/series/index.html 9. http://maps.nls.uk/geo/records/ 10. http://maps.nls.uk/projects/index.html 11. mailto:martin@mbriscoe.me.uk 12. mailto:glamorgan@rootsweb.com 13. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html 14. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ 15. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ 16. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html 17. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html 18. mailto:GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com