Hi Dee and everybody Following on from Sue's helpful comment I thought list members might be interested in the old Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s which are available free online. They are sufficiently detailed to give street names, individual houses and property boundaries. Go to http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ ... and type Kindrochid into the text box near the top left, select the "Address" button (Kindrochid is too small to be a place name) and hit search. This will give you the postal address, from which you can hit the "View Your Map" button to be taken through to a slightly fuzzy 1882 map of the location. Hitting the "Enlarged View" button takes you to the full resolution version. Alternatively you can work from the full grid reference 123220,668720. There is also a good gazetteer of place names. I have found these maps really useful in placing the names of properties found in the census returns and other documents. Of course if you want up-to-date maps you can use http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ ... where you can search for the postcode PA44 7PT Hope this helps Ashley Ashley St. Clair -----Original Message----- From: Sue Visser [mailto:genealgal2@execulink.com] Sent: 17 March 2006 02:19 To: SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Kindrachat Hi Dee Kindrochid, as it appears on modern maps, was/is a farm north of Loch Gorm. [snip] -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.2/280 - Release Date: 13/03/2006
Thank you Ashley for the information on the old ordnance map. I appreciate the help. Dee ----- Original Message ----- From: ashley@rosslynhealth.co.uk Date: Friday, March 17, 2006 8:15 am Subject: RE: [SCT-ISLAY] Kindrachat To: SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com > Hi Dee and everybody > > Following on from Sue's helpful comment I thought list members > might be > interested in the old Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s which are > available free online. They are sufficiently detailed to give > street names, > individual houses and property boundaries. Go to > http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ > ... and type Kindrochid into the text box near the top left, > select the > "Address" button (Kindrochid is too small to be a place name) and hit > search. This will give you the postal address, from which you can > hit the > "View Your Map" button to be taken through to a slightly fuzzy > 1882 map of > the location. Hitting the "Enlarged View" button takes you to the full > resolution version. Alternatively you can work from the full grid > reference123220,668720. There is also a good gazetteer of place names. > I have found these maps really useful in placing the names of > propertiesfound in the census returns and other documents. > Of course if you want up-to-date maps you can use > http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ > ... where you can search for the postcode PA44 7PT > Hope this helps > Ashley > > Ashley St. Clair > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sue Visser [mailto:genealgal2@execulink.com] > Sent: 17 March 2006 02:19 > To: SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Kindrachat > > Hi Dee > > Kindrochid, as it appears on modern maps, was/is a farm north of > Loch Gorm. > [snip] > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.2/280 - Release Date: > 13/03/2006 > > > > > ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== > FOR QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS MAILING LIST - HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE - > HOW TO CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, ETC, ETC...: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/maillist.htm >