Hi people, I use www.british-history.ac.uk maps and other interesting stuff Stevan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynne" <lklein@mindspring.com> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 2:44 PM Subject: [LAN] Free historic maps redux > Hello all > Gremlins! The URLs were in my outgoing message, but apparently stripped > when the message went through RootsWeb's servers. Very odd. > Let me try this again. Am keeping my fingers crossed. > The National Library of Scotland has just uploaded maps of England and > Wales > from 1842-1952 to add to its Scottish collection. A list by county can be > found at http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-england-and-wales/counties.html > Some other map sites: > The British Library holds Fire Insurance maps and plans: > http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/firemaps/fireinsurancemaps.html > or > http://tinyurl.com/lwozamt > Don't forget that A vision of Britain Through Time site also has > historical > maps. See http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/maps/ > Tithe maps can be found. For Leeds, see > http://www.tracksintime.wyjs.org.uk/. > Cheshire tithe maps are at maps.cheshire.gov.uk/tithemaps/‎ > Bristol historic maps are at Know Your Place > (maps.bristol.gov.uk/knowyourplace). > If you had ancestors in London, the Charles Booth Online Archive > (http://booth.lse.ac.uk/) may interest you. As well as maps there is a > searchable catalogue of original survey notebooks, browsable digitised > police notebooks, and browsable Stepney Union casebooks and Jewish > notebooks. > Old Maps Online (www.oldmapsonline.org/) is a gateway to other map sites. > If you know of any more free map sites, do let us know about them. > Thanks to those of you who have contributed other links. > > Lynne > --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com