Hello All. You may already know this from following the brief notices on the MAPCO 'News' page, but my work situation changed earlier this year and I was forced to put all MAPCO activity and correspondence on hold for work reasons. However, I am now managing to find a little time to get back to the things I love, and have commenced work on a number of maps for display during the remainder of 2008. The first of these, currently being scanned, is: General Survey OF ENGLAND and WALES. An entirely new & accurate Survey OF THE COUNTY of KENT, WITH PART of the COUNTY of ESSEX, Done by the Surveying Draftsmen of His Majesty's Honourable Board of Ordnance, on the basis of the Trigonometrical Survey carried on by their Orders under the direction of CAPTN. W. MUDGE of the ROYAL ARTILLERY. F.R.S. 1801 This was the very first Ordnance Survey map ever published. You can take a look at an overall view of the Kent map (simply from initial photographs) on the 'News' page here: http://archivemaps.com/mapco/news.htm To give you an idea of the detail and beauty of this significant map, you can view preview images of it here: An Entirely New & Accurate Survey Of The County Of Kent, With Part Of The County Of Essex, by William Mudge, 1801. http://archivemaps.com/mapco/preview/1801kent.htm Please let me know what you think, and if you have any comments about the clarity of the scanned images on the preview page. Thanks! It is nice to back! Hopefully my work will never affect progress of the MAPCO website again!! Kind regards, David Hale, Adelaide, South Australia. MAPCO : Map And Plan Collection Online http://archivemaps.com *****************************************

David, Absolutely stunning! I can't think of any criticism, and am eager to see more. Congratulations on this valuable work. Carole ==================== Dr C P Biggam, FSA Dept of English Language University of Glasgow ==================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Hale" <dwhale@internode.on.net> To: <essex-uk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 7:44 AM Subject: [Ess] MAPCO online maps - work continues with 1801 Map of Kent > Hello All. > > You may already know this from following the brief notices on the MAPCO > 'News' page, but my work situation changed earlier this year and I was > forced to put all MAPCO activity and correspondence on hold for work > reasons. However, I am now managing to find a little time to get back to > the things I love, and have commenced work on a number of maps for display > during the remainder of 2008. > > The first of these, currently being scanned, is: > > General Survey OF ENGLAND and WALES. An entirely new & accurate Survey OF > THE COUNTY of KENT, WITH PART of the COUNTY of ESSEX, Done by the > Surveying Draftsmen of His Majesty's Honourable Board of Ordnance, on the > basis of the Trigonometrical Survey carried on by their Orders under the > direction of CAPTN. W. MUDGE of the ROYAL ARTILLERY. F.R.S. 1801 > > > This was the very first Ordnance Survey map ever published. > > You can take a look at an overall view of the Kent map (simply from > initial photographs) on the 'News' page here: > > http://archivemaps.com/mapco/news.htm > > > To give you an idea of the detail and beauty of this significant map, you > can view preview images of it here: > > An Entirely New & Accurate Survey Of The County Of Kent, With Part Of The > County Of Essex, by William Mudge, 1801. > http://archivemaps.com/mapco/preview/1801kent.htm > > > Please let me know what you think, and if you have any comments about the > clarity of the scanned images on the preview page. Thanks! > > It is nice to back! Hopefully my work will never affect progress of the > MAPCO website again!! > > Kind regards, > > David Hale, > Adelaide, > South Australia. > > MAPCO : Map And Plan Collection Online > http://archivemaps.com > > > ***************************************** > > >

Thank you David, those maps are wonderfully clear. Margaret Taylor ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Hale" <dwhale@internode.on.net> To: <essex-uk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 2:44 AM Subject: [Ess] MAPCO online maps - work continues with 1801 Map of Kent SNIP> > > This was the very first Ordnance Survey map ever published. > You can take a look at an overall view of the Kent map (simply from > initial photographs) on the 'News' page here: > http://archivemaps.com/mapco/news.htm > > To give you an idea of the detail and beauty of this significant map, > you can view preview images of it here: > An Entirely New & Accurate Survey Of The County Of Kent, With Part Of > The County Of Essex, by William Mudge, 1801. > http://archivemaps.com/mapco/preview/1801kent.htm > Please let me know what you think, and if you have any comments about > the clarity of the scanned images on the preview page. Thanks! <SNIP> > David Hale,