Jane Ward wrote: > Hi all, > I've found the discussion of Hill Head quite > interesting, but does anyone know how to get into the > Ordinance site? I did it by accident once, but I can't > figure out what I did. > The census records for 1881 show a Brown family with > James as head, and an 82 year old Alexander as part of > the family living at Braehead. Is that in the > vicinity of the Hill Head you have been discussing, > near St. Olga? Jane, The Hillhead, St Ola (not St Olga, by the way :-)) we've been talking about and Braehead, Holm are different places. However, as you'll probably realise, the names mean the same since "Brae" is Scots for "hill". The two places are roughly ten miles apart. You can see Braehead, Holm on these maps: http://tinyurl.com/closc http://tinyurl.com/7dgp4 The Ordnance Survey site is at http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/ However, I generally use www.streetmap.co.uk since, oddly enough, it's possible to get better Ordnance Survey on-line maps from it than from the Ordnance Survey's own site. Norman Tulloch