Great historical OS maps of your area.
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Some great old map overlays of the UK with loads for Scotland.
http://geo.nls.uk/maps/index.html
From the above link, there's a brilliant UK wide one which seems a little temperamental if you zoom in too quick.
http://geo.nls.uk/maps/os/newpopular/google.html
(Use the transparency slider on the top right to compare historic and current maps)
http://geo.nls.uk/maps/index.html
From the above link, there's a brilliant UK wide one which seems a little temperamental if you zoom in too quick.
http://geo.nls.uk/maps/os/newpopular/google.html
(Use the transparency slider on the top right to compare historic and current maps)
el stovey said:
I was interested to see the old (now gone) railway tracks in my area, which are now footpaths and Gatwick airport was a horse race course.
You might like this Google Earth over lay then: Closed Railways UK (20th Century)The place where I live was built in 1816 and is clearly marked both in Victorian maps of the area and the modern-day OS.
The main house was painted in camouflage paint during WW2 to stop it acting as a marker for German bombers coming up the Mole Valley (it's a landmark for miles around), however what's really interesting is that it's also missing from the map. Elstovey's link contains mapping from 1919-1947 and it isn't there.
The main house was painted in camouflage paint during WW2 to stop it acting as a marker for German bombers coming up the Mole Valley (it's a landmark for miles around), however what's really interesting is that it's also missing from the map. Elstovey's link contains mapping from 1919-1947 and it isn't there.
el stovey said:
Nobody into old maps?
No, not at all 
http://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/osmap.html
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.html
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/
http://www.npemap.org.uk/
This is a great Google earth overlay but it's MASSIVE whatever you do don't save it in my places when you exit google earth.
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=show...
"The set contains 15,456 placemarks marking the locations of all the known Pillboxes, Gun Emplacements, Artillery Batteries, Anti-Tank Obstacles and so on, that were built during the early years of the war against the threat of German invasion. You can see most of the larger artefacts such as pillboxes in GE."
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=show...
"The set contains 15,456 placemarks marking the locations of all the known Pillboxes, Gun Emplacements, Artillery Batteries, Anti-Tank Obstacles and so on, that were built during the early years of the war against the threat of German invasion. You can see most of the larger artefacts such as pillboxes in GE."
Yes, I know it's a bump.
I can't find it now, but there used to be a website where you could overlay maps of different periods, one on top of another, or alongside and compare the differences over the years.
Sorry to be so vague, but does anyone know where I might find what I am looking for?
I can't find it now, but there used to be a website where you could overlay maps of different periods, one on top of another, or alongside and compare the differences over the years.
Sorry to be so vague, but does anyone know where I might find what I am looking for?
There was a good one for oop nurth - keystothepast
https://keystothepast.info/
https://keystothepast.info/
Edited by Chimune on Tuesday 10th February 08:00
Alickadoo said:
Yes, I know it's a bump.
I can't find it now, but there used to be a website where you could overlay maps of different periods, one on top of another, or alongside and compare the differences over the years.
Sorry to be so vague, but does anyone know where I might find what I am looking for?
I’m sure that used to be google earth.I can't find it now, but there used to be a website where you could overlay maps of different periods, one on top of another, or alongside and compare the differences over the years.
Sorry to be so vague, but does anyone know where I might find what I am looking for?
Not seen anything like that in years though.
You mean this one.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom...
My office uses it about 100 times a week to find out what was there as part of valuations, as we work all over the country.
Its amazing what potential sources of problems and contamination were present 200 years ago, tanneries, railway yards, coal mines, clay pits, rivers - you name it.
We always check as part of environmental searches.
It also helps to pick out the original towns and villages from the urban sprawl. Helps me make sense of it all.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom...
My office uses it about 100 times a week to find out what was there as part of valuations, as we work all over the country.
Its amazing what potential sources of problems and contamination were present 200 years ago, tanneries, railway yards, coal mines, clay pits, rivers - you name it.
We always check as part of environmental searches.
It also helps to pick out the original towns and villages from the urban sprawl. Helps me make sense of it all.
Alickadoo said:
Yes, I know it's a bump.
I can't find it now, but there used to be a website where you could overlay maps of different periods, one on top of another, or alongside and compare the differences over the years.
Sorry to be so vague, but does anyone know where I might find what I am looking for?
This:I can't find it now, but there used to be a website where you could overlay maps of different periods, one on top of another, or alongside and compare the differences over the years.
Sorry to be so vague, but does anyone know where I might find what I am looking for?
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom...
Brilliant resource and they also have WW1 trench maps that can be overlayed on modern mapping. I used it in conjunction with regimental diaries to find the area where my partner's great grandfather was killed. He is one of the 70,000 with no known grave commemorated at Thiepval.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
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https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
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BuyaDuster said:
You mean this one.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom...
My office uses it about 100 times a week to find out what was there as part of valuations, as we work all over the country.
Its amazing what potential sources of problems and contamination were present 200 years ago, tanneries, railway yards, coal mines, clay pits, rivers - you name it.
We always check as part of environmental searches.
It also helps to pick out the original towns and villages from the urban sprawl. Helps me make sense of it all.
Yes, that is exactly the one I mean. Thank you.https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom...
My office uses it about 100 times a week to find out what was there as part of valuations, as we work all over the country.
Its amazing what potential sources of problems and contamination were present 200 years ago, tanneries, railway yards, coal mines, clay pits, rivers - you name it.
We always check as part of environmental searches.
It also helps to pick out the original towns and villages from the urban sprawl. Helps me make sense of it all.
I have used the nls map site a couple of times. We now live where there used to be a steelworks and I worked there. The area has been nicely landscaped. I overlayed an old map showing the works to confirm what was in various places. Our house is exactly where a slag reduction building was, where the slag from the furnaces was crushed. It explains why we find bits when digging the garden. Now, behave yourselves....slag is the molten lime mix that purified the steel, think of a volcano eruption.
I walk the dog daily and remember where things were and what went on there. You can see some bricks, rubble from the landscaping excavations in some places wher a lake was dug out and used to build up raised areas. We even have a Gorsedd stone circle put there for an Eisteddfod. West Wales obviously. It's exactly where the casting bay was.
I walk the dog daily and remember where things were and what went on there. You can see some bricks, rubble from the landscaping excavations in some places wher a lake was dug out and used to build up raised areas. We even have a Gorsedd stone circle put there for an Eisteddfod. West Wales obviously. It's exactly where the casting bay was.
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