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Britain - see Great Britain
British Isles (a selection, mostly of 19th century county maps, of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and London, in high res. - London Ancestor) {September, 2004}
British Isles. British Geological Survey. ‘Free online viewing of over 45,000 BGS maps and sections’ (for details see Here, 16 May 2023) {August, 2023}
British Library. 'Online Gallery (see 30,000 items from our collections' (among the collections involved are: Crace London plans; watercolours from George III's Topographical Collection; plans of Deptford; Ordnance Surveyors' Drawings; The unveiling of Britain (800-1600); Kensington Turnpike Trust drawings; Caribbean views (including maps)) {August, 2003; amended October 2008}
'European Cities' (12 high res. but slow-loading city plans - mostly from the British Isles - Yale University Library) {October, 2001}
‘German naval charts, 1938-1945’ (21 charts, enlargeable to very high res. - National Library of Scotland) {December, 2020}
Goad fire insurance plans (covering all of the British Isles, 1886-1930 and including 'the first editions of most towns', enlargeable to high res. with Zoomify; with Explanation of signs and symbols used on the maps. See also ‘Goad fire insurance maps of England' (via Wikimedia)) {September, 2014, updated April 2020}
'Image catalogues, indexes and online databases' (a gateway site, with an extensive, annotated listing of image and text sites for England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales - Jean Manco, Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles) {November, 2007}
'John Speed proof maps - Atlas.2.61.1' (the full set of 66 proof maps, enlargeable to high res.; one of five known surviving sets for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611-12), in this case 'in a late state of preparation, but many were altered before being published' - Cambridge University Library) {April, 2011; updated April 2015}
John Speed Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (high res. images (enlargeable or with pre-selected details) of [as at May 2002] three of the maps, 29 cities and towns, title-pages, and map details (heraldry, coins, costume by rank, buildings, royalty, stones - Maryanne Cline Horowitz) {May, 2002}
’King George III Topographical Collection’ (select ‘large image’ for medium res. images of 2,500 watercolours, drawings and prints, collected by George III (1760-1820, but with a lot of earlier material), covering the British Isles and much else besides - British Library, ‘Online Gallery’) {September, 2004; amended October 2008}
'Medieval Maps of Britain' (15 medium res. images with brief captions - Medievalists.net) {February, 2016}
Mercator. 'First atlas of Europe: compiled by Mercator in the 1570s' (a 'Turning the Pages' presentation from the British Library, allowing you to 'leaf through' the entire volume, which includes his wall-maps of Europe (1554) and the British Isles (1564); there is a magnifying glass tool but (apparently) no way to enlarge in general above low to medium res., an introductory text, and some audio; however, to gain access to any of these features you must first download Macromedia Shockwave, for which broadband connection is strongly advised) {September, 2005}
Ordnance Survey, "Ten Mile" Planning Maps of the United Kingdom, 1940s-1970s (183 sheets, high res. - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2022}
Towns. 'Historic Maps' (links to medium res. images, illustrating a brief summary of the history of British town mapping - Jean Manco, Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles) {August, 2003}
‘The unveiling of Britain’ (a selection of 815 maps and views (800-1600) - British Library, ‘Online Gallery’) {September, 2004; amended October 2008}

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England

see also under England & Wales below

NB. For EACH COUNTY, select from the Cartophilia index

Armada. Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio. Anno Do: M D LXXXVIII (a facsimile of the Kraus copy of the volume with maps by Robert Adams and Augustine Ryther (enlargeable to high res.), tracing the course of the 1588 Spanish Armada – Library of Congress) {October, 2017}
England. Canals. ‘Maps of the Canals: Old maps of waterways and docks’ (high res. maps and plans of Manchester and the Mersey from the ‘mid 1800s to 1946’ - Canal Archive) {February, 2005}
England. Canals. 'Maps & plans from History of the Manchester Ship Canal' (high res. scans of the illustrations in the 2-volume history of the canal between Manchester and Liverpool, by Sir Bosdin Leech (Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes, 1907, the text already online - Martin Dodge) {December, 2009}
England. 'Image catalogues, indexes and online databases' (a gateway site, with an extensive, annotated listing of image and text sites for England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales - Jean Manco, Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles) {November, 2007}
England. ‘County maps of Northern England, 1760s-1840s’ (National Library of Scotland) {August, 2021}
England. Ordnance Survey see below under 'Great Britain. Ordnance Survey'
England. ‘South Coast Harbours 1698’ (a facsimile of the report by Edmund Dummer and Thomas Wiltshaw, comprising 18 charts with text (all enlargeable to high res.) of the coast from Dover to Land’s End, including transcripts of all notes on the charts, and with key letters on the charts treated as hotspots with ALT text explanation, and with a wide range of illustrated notes on 'chart features - Southampton Water and Solent' - Jean and Martin Norgate, with notes by Adrian Webb, 2002) {March, 2005}
England. Towns. ‘Ordnance Survey Town Plans of England and Wales, 1840s-1890s’ (‘Our coverage currently just includes 38 towns in south-west England, as well as London (1893-96), but it will expand geographically as scanning continues’ - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2018}

English counties - see under British Isles and Great Britain and, for each county, select from the Cartophilia index

England - Bedfordshire. 'Community archives' (with the aim of including for each town, village or hamlet in the county high res. details, comprising 'parts of the 25" to the mile OS maps for c.1880 and c.1900, a section from the parish inclosure map or tithe apportionment map...' - Bedfordshire County Council) {November, 2007}
England - Berkshire. 'New Landscapes: Enclosure in Berkshire' ('The maps and land awards on this site show the process of enclosing the common fields of the county of Berkshire between 1738 and 1883'; searchable and linked to the OS 6 inch map of c.1880, and with explanatory text including an index of surveyors - Berkshire Record Office). [Also here] {July, 2005}
England - Berkshire. 'Reading Local Studies Scanned Collection' (select 'Estate Maps' for high res. pdf images from seven estates - Reading Borough Libraries) {November, 2007}
England - Berkshire. 'Sense of Place South East: telling the story' (searching for 'plan OR map' found 527 zoomable images (though most are not maps) relating to Hampshire, the Thames, Slough and Greenham Common) {November, 2007}
England - Bristol. 'Know Your Place. Learning and sharing information about historic Bristol' (with the aid, inter alia, of maps from eight epochs between 1750 and 2010, this enables people 'to explore their neighbourhoods through historic maps, images and linked information' - Bristol City Council) {March, 2011}
England – Bristol. ‘Putting Bristol on the map’ (a well-illustrated note by Pamela Parkes, 26 April 2017) {May, 2017}
England – Cambridgeshire - ’Cambridge Digital Library’ (766 maps, enlargeable to high res., see also ’Browse our Collections: Maps’) {November, 2020}
England - Cambridgeshire. Carlton and Willingham Green (medium res. images of an estate map of 1767 and Land Duty map of 1910) {April, 2005}
+ England - Cambridgeshire. 'Unfolding Landscapes: Maps of Cambridgeshire from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II' (low res. images illustrating the summary to the 2003 exhibition at Cambridge University Library) {October, 2003}
England - Cambridgeshire. Cambridge University Library (a selection of plans of Cambridge, enlargeable to high res.) {September, 2015}
England. Channel Islands. 'Maps of the Channel Islands by Ordnance Survey and related institutions, 1900s-1970s' (72 maps in high res. - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2024}
England - Channel Islands - Jersey. ‘Old Maps of the Island of Jersey‘ (10 high res. images - Harold Fears) {February, 2005}
England - Cheshire. 'e- Mapping Victorian Cheshire: Cheshire's Tithe Maps Online' (almost 500 tithe maps, enlargeable to high res., with the possibility of split-screen comparison between those and OS maps of c.1875 and 1910, and aerial photographs; as you enlarge or pan one image the paired image changes to match it; search can be by owner or geographical name, related to information about land use, occupancy and ownership from the accompanying tithe apportionments; see the 'Frequently Asked Questions' for background information; an imaginative and helpful site - Cheshire County Council) {October, 2007}
England - Cheshire. ‘Old Maps and Aerial Views of Chester’ (medium res. images - The Black & White Picture Place) {May, 2004}
England - Cheshire. Christleton (a small selection of high res. details, 1577-1870 - Richard Nicholson) {March, 2005}
England - Cumbria. Banks Collection (low to medium res. images of maps donated by Sydney Banks of Toronto, of Cumbria, South America, Canada, World - McMaster University Library) {July, 2003}
England - Derbyshire. 'Lower Dove (Derby/Staffs border) Tithe Maps and Apportionments' (images of redrawn tithe maps of 17 of the 32 townships (1839-50) with more recent maps for comparison - ancestry.com) {November, 2007}
England - Devon. 'Dawlish Warren. Early maps' (8 medium res. details of the Exmouth area - Devon Library and Information Services) {December, 2001}
England - Devon. ‘Digital map of historic Devon’ (medium to high res. images of the Saxton, Donn (partial) and Greenwood maps, with a link to a Gazetteer (selecting a place offers a lead to the relevant section of the Donn map); see also the general Maps search page, which includes map lists for the Westcountry Studies Library and a search facility - Ian Maxted, Devon County Council) {February, 2005}
+ England – Devon. ‘Mapping our Exeter’ (including ‘500 years of Mapping Exeter: A collection of digitised maps of Exeter, 1587-1970s’ (19 enlargeable maps - ‘based on an outreach project (2022-2023) organised by the University of Exeter Special Collections’) {August, 2023}
England - Devon. ‘Ordnance Survey Town Plans of England and Wales, 1840s-1890s’ (‘Our coverage currently just includes 38 towns in south-west England, as well as London (1893-96), but it will expand geographically as scanning continues’ - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2018}
England - Devon. 'Printed Maps of Devon, 1575-1837. Second Edition' (the full text of the carto-bibliography by Kit Batten & Francis Bennett, originally published in 1996, incorporating numerous additions and corrections, illustrated with low-medium res. images) {July, 2013}
England - Devon. ‘World War 2 : German military intelligence documents’ (includes several medium res. map details and postcards from the set issued for the German General Staff in 1941 - Local Studies Service, Devon County Council) {February, 2005}
England - Devon - Exeter. ‘Town plans of Exeter’ (an account of plans from 1587, illustrated with low res. images - Ian Maxted, Devon County Council) {February, 2005}
England - Devon. Maps of Plymouth (fairly high res. maps, plans and extracts, 16th-19th century - Steve Johnson) {March, 2005}
England - Dorset. ‘Dorset Coast Digital Archive’ (select ‘Interactive maps’ or ‘Image Library’, then ‘Search’ - [entering ‘map’ into ‘Basic Search’ led to 890 medium res. images, of tithe and other maps, 18th-20th centuries]) {February, 2005}
England - Dorset. 'Dorsetshire Maps' (a selection, 1627-1935, of county maps and details, mostly in high res. - Dorsetshire.com) {May, 2005}
England - Dorset - Burton Bradstock. ‘Old Maps & Tithes’ (a small selection of high res. images) {February, 2005}
England - Durham. ('the GIS allows you to interact with both modern and historical maps of County Durham and the immediate surrounding areas', providing access to Ordnance Survey 6-inch plans from 1856 onwards - Durham County Council) {January, 2008}
England - Durham (details from 25 inch Ordnance Survey maps from the 1890s and later, from which to locate coal and lead mines - Durham Mining Museum) {February, 2007}
England - Durham. 'Keys to the Past' (offering access to high res. details of 19th and 20th century maps via the place-name ['Local Histories'] - Durham and Northumberland County Councils) {November, 2007}
England - Durham. 'Pictures in Print' (catalogue and thumbnails of printed maps and topographical prints of County Durham created before 1860. Once a thumbnail has been retrieved via a search, you are offered access to 220 zoomable high res. maps (out of 1,770 items in total) via the downloadable plug-in, ER Mapper Image Web Server) {August, 2001 - amended January 2002}
England - Essex. ‘Map of the County of Essex 1777’ (an enlargeable version of the map by Chapman and André. By Tim Fransen; reproducing the description produced by the Essex Record Office in 1950) {October, 2019}
England – Gloucestershire. Large-scale OS maps and plans for Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire: Georeferenced 25 inch first edition layer, SW England, 1873-1888, also OS Town Plans of England and Wales, SW England, 1840s-1890s and Georeferenced Town Plan layer, SW England, 1880s - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2016}
England - Hampshire - Bournemouth. 'Streets of Bournemouth' (the 'Map Comparison' allows you to contrast, side-by-side, maps from the early 19th-century tithe survey onwards with the modern outline - Bournemouth University) {September, 2010}
England - Hampshire. ‘Checklist of Hampshire Maps’ (a chronological list of ‘known maps of the county, plus maps that put Hampshire in its context in England’ (1350s-1920s), with thumbnails when very high res. scans are available (evidently covering over 850 maps); a catalogue of items in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museums Service (HMCMS), in ‘identity’ number order, with a chronological browsing list of those illustrated; supplemented with very extensive descriptive notes - a large and complex site, by Martin Norgate, 2004) {March, 2005}
England - Hampshire. 'The North Hampshire Tithe Map Project' (select Maps for high res. copies of nine Tithe maps (variously as JPG and TIF files) in the present Borough of Basingstoke & Deane; passing the cursor over the JPG versions brings up the associated owner/occupier and survey details (also available via a searchable database) - Gerry Dutton) {May, 2005}
England - Hampshire. 'Old Hampshire mapped' (enlargeable, fast-loading, high res. images of 24 maps, each with accompanying notes and bibliography, indexes, gazetteers, feature details with commentary (see ‘Topics’ or the ‘General Index’), analysis of roadbooks and itineraries, related texts, etc., and a separate annotated Gazetteer of about 8000 places - a complex, detailed and highly imaginative site - Jean and Martin Norgate. See their own Site record; 'Old Hampshire mapped: providing good access to early printed county maps', The Cartographic Journal, 41:1 (2004), pp.47-53; and further comments on 'About the listing of early map image sites on the web') {March, 2005}
England - Hampshire. 'Sense of Place South East: telling the story' (searching for 'plan OR map' found 527 zoomable images (though most are not maps) relating to Hampshire, the Thames, Slough and Greenham Common) {November, 2007}
England - Hampshire. ‘South Coast Harbours 1698’ (a facsimile of the report by Edmund Dummer and Thomas Wiltshaw, comprising 18 charts with text (all enlargeable to high res.) of the coast from Dover to Land’s End, including transcripts of all notes on the charts, and with key letters on the charts treated as hotspots with ALT text explanation, and with a wide range of illustrated notes on 'chart features - Southampton Water and Solent' - Jean and Martin Norgate, with notes by Adrian Webb, 2002) {March, 2005}
England - Hampshire. 'MapSouthampton (interactive map)' (a GIS that allows you to load plans of 1846 and 1870 and then overlay current mapping, using a Java Applet) {July, 2005}
England - Hertfordshire. 'Maps of Hertfordshire' (Chris Reynolds) {July, 2005}
England - Hertfordshire. 'The Road Through Harpenden' (a small selection of low to medium res. maps and details - illustrating a talk by Chris Reynolds) {May, 2005}
England - Hertfordshire. 'Early maps and plans of Welwyn Garden City' (54 maps from 1920 - Alan Cash) {March, 2011}
England - Isle of Man (a growing selection of low to medium res. images; also check the homepage - Frances Coakley) {August, 2002}
England - Kent. 'Printed Maps of Kent 1575-1900' (a book-length cartobibliography, of the most thorough type, compiled by R.A. [Tony] Burgess and listing every published map and their sometimes numerous variants, with a large collection of images, for recognition, rather than study, purposes) {February, 2009}
England - Kent. Pembury, History (a selection of high res. map details) {June 2017}
England - Kent - 'Margate Maps' (a selection, enlargeable via Zoomify to high res., 1736-1872 - Anthony Lee) {February, 2011}
England - 'Lancashire Historic Maps (images of over 60 maps, enlargeable to high res. (some in more than one state) used as illustrations in: Ian Saunders, Printed Maps of Lancashire: the first two hundred years (Centre for North-West Regional Studies, Lancaster University, 2013)) {January, 2014}
England – Lancashire. ‘Lancashire maps dating back to 14th century reveal the county's complex history’ (a selection of map details from LancsLive) {August, 2020}
England - Lancashire. 'Old Maps' (a selection of high res. maps: of the county, of smaller areas, and large-scale town plans, 1610-1890; with a link to 'Maps and Related Information Online' (MARIO) - Lancashire County Council) {December, 2003}
England - Lancashire. 'Lancaster Historic Maps' (about 30 town plans, sections from county maps, road maps, etc., mostly high res. - Lancaster University) {August, 2005}
England – Lancashire - Manchester. ‘Campus maps through time’ (Martin Dodge, University of Manchester Library, and School of Environment, Education and Development) {March, 2016}
England - Lancashire - Manchester. 'Historical maps of Manchester' (featuring the Marr map of Manchester housing, and 20 maps - from Tinker 1772 to Geographica 1960 - which can be viewed side-by-side or viewed with a current base map or aerial imagery) {February, 2012}
England - Lancashire – Manchester. ‘The long-lost maps that tell the incredible story of Manchester’ (an illustrated note about the newly published Manchester: Mapping the City by Terry Whyke, Brian Robson & Martin Dodge, 25 November 2018) {December, 2018}
England - Lancashire - Manchester. 'Mapping Manchester: Cartographic Stories of the City' (the full text (38-page pdf) of the exhibition at the John Rylands Library, Manchester, 2009-2010, edited by Martin Dodge and Chris Perkins; a 30 Mg version with high res. scans is here) {October, 2009}
English – Lancashire - Manchester. ‘Online Map Collections: Old Maps of Manchester’ (a selection, enlargeable to high res. – University of Manchester) {November, 2020}

England - Lancashire - Manchester. 'Online Map Collection'

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England – Lancashire – Manchester. ‘Project: Victorian Sanitary Survey Maps for central Manchester’ (46 detailed maps, mostly from about 1860 – University of Manchester Library) {May, 2019}

London

England - London (includes Waterworks map (1856) and Reynolds map (1857-9) and details of other maps of London - very fast-loading, high res., enlargeable images forming part of the John Snow site)
England - London (21 high res. maps and town plans from Bartholomew’s Pocket Atlas and Guide to London (1922) - Jonathan Hipkiss) {March, 2005}
England - London ( high res. scans of overall maps at different scales, some specific plans and a street index from Baedeker’s London and its Environs Handbook, 1905 - Alan Gresley: ‘Baedeker's Old Guide Books’) {March, 2005}
England - London (low res. maps, available as facsimiles from Microcolour.com)
England - London. 'The Edwin C. Bolles Collection: a Digital Archive on the History and Topography of London' (select 'Images' for a link to 'large scale maps', comprising 21 medium res. images; and 'London Atlas', for a range of maps from 1600 (reconstruction), via Booth (1889-90) and other 19th century maps, to Bartholomew (1999), with GIS functionality. A large and complex site, including 19th century maps and 17-19th century prints. "A comprehensive and integrated collection of sources and resources on the history and topography of London. Texts, images, and maps in the Bolles collection are all interconnected. The digitized maps are linked to each other, to relevant source texts, and to illustrations of the locations as they appeared at the time or at present." Tisch Library, Tufts College) {May, 2002; general link only found February 2010}
England - London. ‘A Brief History Of London In A-Z Maps’ (a small selection of enlargeable maps, with commentary - Londonist, 28 October 2019) {October, 2019}
England - London. ‘Charles Booth and the survey into life and labour in London (1886-1903)’ (the 1888-89 map can be zoomed into at high res., automatically paired with the 2000 Bartholomew map for comparison - Charles Booth Online Archive, London School of Economics & Political Science) {March, 2005}
England - London. Charles Booth's descriptive map of London poverty, 1889 (high res. details - Sabiha Ahmad)
England – London. ‘Charles Booth Digitised Archive’ (featuring the hand-coloured Booth maps for the first time) {May, 2022}
England - London. ‘Charles Booth’s London: Poverty maps and police notebooks’ (the poverty maps from Inquiry into the Life and Labour of the People in London (1886-1903), can be downloaded, and the police notebooks geo-located against the maps; there is also ‘a wealth of contextual information’ - London School of Economics){December, 2016}
England - London. Crace Collection (high or fairly high res. images of the 1,346 printed and MS plans (1570-1860) - British Library Online Gallery) {August, 2003; amended October 2008 & February 2015}
England - London. ‘Crystal Palace Marvel’ (an illustrated note by Magdalena Peszko, 5 May 2020) {May, 2020}
England - London. ’Deptford Plans and Drawings’ (127 drawings and plans - British Library, ‘Online Gallery’) {September, 2004; amended October 2008}
+ England - London. ‘Glimpses of London's Past’ (seven maps and the Rheinbeck panorama, enlargeable to medium res. - University of Otago Library) {October, 2004}
England - London. ‘Goad Maps on Layers of London’ (illustrated note by Gethin Rees, for the British Library Maps and views blog, 11 August 2020) {August, 2020}
England - London. ‘The Great Fire of London in maps’ (illustrated note by Magdalena Peszko, for the British Library Maps and views blog, 2 September 2020) {September, 2020}
England - London. Greenwood's map (1827) (high res., enlargeable map, including clickable place-name index - Bath Spa University College)
England - London. 'The Grub Street Project: Topographies of 18th-century London' (the 'Map and Image Gallery' includes the maps of Strype (1720) and Horwood (1799), enlargeable to high res.) {April, 2010}
England - London. The Guildhall Library's 'Collage' database (20,000 images, including about 1000 images if map or plan is selected in Advanced Search - click on image to double the size, but low res.)
England - London. Horwood. 'Romantic London. Explore Horwood's Plan' (using the 1792-99 map; "the site also includes an introduction to the Plan, some biographical information about Horwood and details about how the digital map was made" - Matthew Sangster) {August, 2015}
England - London. 'Ideal Homes: a history of south-east London suburbs' (featuring a selection of map details, enlargeable to fairly high res., for Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark - a joint project of the six boroughs and the University of Greenwich) {July, 2008}
England - London. 'Images of London' (enlargeable, fast-loading high res. images of six maps of London (1705-1830), with place-name indexes and the ability to compare the same detail on up to three maps - includes the 24-sheet Rocque map (1746) and the large Greenwood map (1830), with direct access via their indexes of 1500 and 5000 names respectively and a special comparison feature between them. This is part of the steadily expanding 6000-image 'MOTCO UK Directory and Image Database - Antique Maps, Prints & Books') {May, 2001} Also Horwood (1799), Stanford (1862) and other smaller maps {October 2003}
England - London. 'Kensington Turnpike Trust drawings' (30 of Joseph Salway's detailed plans and elevations of streets - British Library, ‘Online Gallery’) {October, 2008}
England - London. ‘Layers of London’ (12 significant maps, from 1520 to today: Faithorne & Newcourt, Ogilby & Morgan, Morgan, Rocque, Horwood, Greenwood, O.S., RAF aerial, and bomb damage – ‘Recording the layers of London's rich heritage’) {March, 2019}
England - London. ‘Layers of London’ (‘Map the stories & heritage of London. Search, compare and contribute to the many historic maps of one of the world’s greatest cities – ‘a new online map project that lets users peel back London’s streets to trace its changes over the past 500 years’ Matthew Davies, University of London’s Institute of Historical Research [currently in Beta]) {June, 2018}
England - London. ‘Layers of London’ (a project that “explores London’s development, history and heritage, from the Roman period to the present day through the city’s places using maps to show how London has changed over its history, and how Londoners have adapted to those changes” – based at the University of London‘s Institute of Historical Research, and funded by the Heritage Lottery fund) {March, 2017}
England - London. Legal. 'The Proceedings of the Old Bailey: London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913' ('Place and Map Search 1674 to 1834'; using detailed London maps - Strype/Stow (1720), Rocque (1746) & Greenwood (1827) - you can search for defendants' addresses and crime locations; enlargeable to high res. courtesy of MOTCO [on which see separate entry]) {April, 2008}
England. 'London: A Life in Maps' (a virtual exhibition, featuring 40 maps and drawings, zoomable to high res., from the British Library exhibition, 2006-2007, with videos and educational materials) {May, 2007}
England - London. ‘London etc actually surveyd’ (the 12-sheet Ogilby & Morgan map from 1682 in a modern reproduction, from the Library of Congress) {May, 2022}
England - London. ‘London Genealogy’ (including 18th century street name lists and a link to ‘Maps of London’ (a range of mostly 19th & 20th century maps in high res., e.g. Underground (1912), docks, ward/parish, Boundary Commission - London Ancestor). See also high res. scans of the Stanford map of London (1862-71), issued by mappalondon.com but bearing the ownership stamp of London Ancestor) {September, 2004; revised October 2006}
England – London. London Transport Museum. ‘Maps’ (a catalogue of 6,669 items, from 1860 onwards, mostly of maps, visible as enlarged thumbnails) {April, 2020}
England – London. ‘Magnificent Maps of London‘ (66 maps, enlargeable to high res., for an exhibition at London Metropolitan Archives until 26 October 2022) {May, 2022}
England - London. 'Map and Plan Collection Online' (a steadily growing selection of very high res. maps, primarily of London, other parts of the British Isles, and Australia, designed for genealogists; for a listing, and updates, see News - David Hale, MAPCO) {February, 2011}
England - London. 'Ordnance Survey Maps, London, Five feet to the Mile, 1893-1896' (753 sheets, enlargeable to high res. - National Library of Scotland, with support from David Rumsey for scanning and georeferencing. See also 'Victorian London in incredible detail' by Ollie O'Brien) {October, 2013; updated February 2016}
England – London Picture Archive (1,682 maps, enlargeable to high res. - London Metropolitan Archive on behalf of the City of London Corporation) {May, 2022}
England - London. 'Rocque, John. A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark', 1746 (the 24-sheet map, enlargeable to very high res. - Harvard University Library) {June, 2008}
England - London. Southwark. 'Old Maps of Southwark' (high res. images of 19th and 20th century Ordnance Survey maps and 16 maps covering the borough, 1572-1899 - Southwark Council) {December, 2010}
England - London. Stow (select entry for 'a full-text electronic edition of John Strype's enormous two-volume 1720 edition, with its celebrated maps and plates', of John Stow’s Survey of London - 'Stuart London Project', University of Sheffield’s Department of History and the Humanities Research Institute) {January, 2008}
England. London Underground (‘The London Underground in 1934: Rare version of Harry Beck's iconic Tube map printed a year after it first appeared on the network emerges for sale for £20,000’, illustrated note about the poster version, along with earlier and later versions of the original - by Katie Weston, for the Daily Mail, 3 March 2020) {March, 2020}
England - London. Underground. 'A History of the London Tube Maps' (1905-present: 26 enlargeable, slow-loading high res. maps, with brief commentary - 'Transport for London, Reproduced with kind permission of London's Transport Museum'. NB the site seems to require Internet Explorer and/or cookies to be enabled) {November, 2002}
England. London Underground. 'A journey through time' (including over 400 maps, Google Arts & Culture, in collaboration with Transport for London Corporate Archives) {August, 2024}
England - London. Underground. 'The London Tube Map Archive' (25 scans of London Underground maps and six related maps, 1908-1999) {December, 2003}
England - London. Underground. 'Tunnel vision: a history of the London tube map' (14 images of early designs - [London] Guardian, 26 November 2009) {December, 2009}
England - 'London Underground Maps show evolution of the Tube over the last 153 years' (low res. scans; Chris York, the Huffington Post, 24 February 2016) {February, 2016}
England - London. 'Urban and metropolitan history. Sources for metropolitan London and other urban centres' (select 'Maps' for five 17th century plans, including the Ogilby & Morgan (1676) and the Morgan (1682), enlargeable to great magnification but not high res.; also 6-inch and 25 inch Ordnance Survey plans, from Landmark - British History Online ) {June, 2007}
England - London. 'Vauxhall, Kennington & the Oval: Maps' (a selection of medium or high res. maps and details, from 1746 onwards) {May, 2005}
England - London. 'Victorian Dictionary - Maps' (two high res., searchable maps, and links to others - Lee Jackson) {December, 2002}

England - Norfolk. ‘E-Map Explorer’ (a complex site: (1) you can select from a range of < http://www.historic-maps.norfolk.gov.uk/Emap/EMapExplorer.asp?PID=1 > original maps [large-scale maps of the county by Faden (1797) and Bryant (1823-7); over 600 plans of Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn, Norwich and Thetford; enclosure and tithe maps] - zoomable to fairly high res. [there is no apparent difference between the default ‘medium’ quality and ‘high’]; or (2) you can < http://www.historic-maps.norfolk.gov.uk/Emap/EMapExplorer.asp?PID=4 > ‘Select area’ and compare, interactively, two equivalent versions from the following: OS 1st edition (1879-86), a selection of enclosure or tithe maps, and aerial photos (1946 or 1988); the GIS allows you to select area, zoom in, measure, overlay, etc.; and (3) the homepage leads you to notes on the different map types - Norfolk County Council) {March, 2005}
England - Northumberland. 'Keys to the Past' (offering access to high res. details of 19th and 20th century maps via the place- name ['Local Histories'] - Durham and Northumberland County Councils) {November, 2007}
England - Northumberland - Berwick. ‘Town Plan of Berwick-upon-Tweed’ (the 17 sheets of the OS plan of 1852, enlargeable to very high res., with commentary - National Library of Scotland) {March, 2005}
England - Nottinghamshire. 'Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Maps' (six medium to high res. maps and plans - Rod Neep) {May, 2005}
England – Oxfordshire – Gagingwell. ‘A lease for life’ (about a 1713 estate map made for the Earl of Lichfield - by Stuart Ackroyd for the Bodleian Maps blog, 24 October 2022) {December, 2022}
England - Shropshire - Oswestry. 'Oswestry Borderland Heritage' (select 'Maps' for interactive OS maps 1875, 1901 and 1926, enlargeable to high res.) {April, 2014}
England- Somerset. Large-scale OS maps and plans for Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire: Georeferenced 25 inch first edition layer, SW England, 1873-1888, also OS Town Plans of England and Wales, SW England, 1840s-1890s and Georeferenced Town Plan layer, SW England, 1880s - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2016}
England - Somerset (a selection of high res. details for Freshford, Hinton Charterhouse, Limpley Stoke) {May, 2005}
England - Somerset. 'Bath in Time, Images of Bath online' (select 'Maps and Plans and Designs') {November, 2007}
England - Somerset. 'Documents Online' (select 'historic Ordnance Survey maps of Somerset' for 6" Ordnance Survey maps of c. 1885 and c. 1903 - Somerset Archive and Record Service) {November, 2007}
England - Somerset, see also under Bristol above
England - Staffordshire. 'Lower Dove (Derby/Staffs border) Tithe Maps and Apportionments' (images of redrawn tithe maps of 17 of the 32 townships (1839-50) with more recent maps for comparison - ancestry.com) {November, 2007}
England - Staffordshire. 'Maps of Stoke-on-Trent & North Staffordshire' (medium res. sections of the 1890 6" OS map and a selection of medium to fairly high res. details covering: Abbey Hulton, Burslem, Cobridge, Dredsen, Etruria, Fenton, Hanley, Hartshill, Longport, Longton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Penkhull, Stoke and Werrington) {May, 2005}
England - Staffordshire. 'Staffordshire. Past Track' (you can select an area to view on the 1775 Yates map, the 1945-8 Ordnance Survey, or the current map - Staffordshire County Council) {January, 2008}
England – ‘Staffordshire Tithe Maps’ (284 maps, enlargeable to high res.) {August, 2020}
England - Staffordshire - Dudley. 'Historic Maps of Dudley' (Ordnance Survey maps (both pre- and post-1950) and other official maps from the 18th & 19th centuries - Dudley Council) {March, 2010}
England - Suffolk - Foxearth. ‘Miscellaneous old maps of the area’ (10 high res. whole maps or details - Foxearth and District Local History Society) {April, 2005}
England - Sussex ('Old Sussex Mapped: Two centuries of Sussex County Maps': enlargeable, fast-loading, high res. images of 11 maps (including the Yeakell & Gardner), each with accompanying notes and bibliography, indexes, gazetteers, feature details, etc. - Dominic Fontana [closely based on the highly imaginative Hampshire site created by Jean and Martin Norgate]) {November, 2002}
England - Sussex. 'Brighton and Hove Historical Mapping Web Site' (an interactive site, using a range of maps from 1799-1941; for more details see the author's post to the lismaps list - Timothy Langner, University of Portsmouth [masters dissertation]) {September, 2009}
England - Warwickshire. 'Maps and Map Making: the West Midlands Experience' (a selection of maps enlargeable to high res.; illustrations to a historical essay in 12 sections - Revolutionary Players) {March, 2010}
England - Warwickshire. 'Windows on Warwickshire' (searching for 'map' retrieved 45 items [several of other regions], enlargeable if the Zoomify viewer is installed, including a number featuring the Sheldon Tapestry maps [alternatively, search for 'sheldon'] - Warwickshire County Council) {November, 2005}
England - Warwickshire - Birmingham. 'Digital Handsworth: a history of the ancient parish of Handsworth' (searching for 'maps' produced a small selection of Tithe maps, a plan of bomb damage, etc., enlargeable if the Zoomify viewer is installed ] - Warwickshire County Council) {November, 2005}
England - Warwickshire - Birmingham. 'Historical Birmingham Maps and Prospects' (a selection of medium res. plans; see also the associated commentaries - Birmingham City Council) {March, 2010}
England. West of England. ‘Know Your Place - West of England’ (modern and historic maps are shown side by side, along with archive images and links; covering Bath & NE Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire & Wiltshire) {October, 2016}
England - Wiltshire. Large-scale OS maps and plans for Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire: Georeferenced 25 inch first edition layer, SW England, 1873-1888, also OS Town Plans of England and Wales, SW England, 1840s-1890s and Georeferenced Town Plan layer, SW England, 1880s - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2016}
England - Wiltshire. Maps of Bradford on Avon (select the letter 'M' for links to a sequence of maps and plan details - enlargeable to high res.) {May, 2005}
England - Worcestershire. 'The development of the parishes of Badsey and Aldington since 1807' (fairly high res. scans of the MS maps of 1807 and 1812; for other maps of the two parishes see Maps of Badsey and Aldington - Badsey Society) {May, 2005}
England - 'Worcestershire Tithe and Inclosure Map Project' (click 'View the GIS maps' for overlays of the different type of mapping, with a link to 'What are Tithe and Inclosure Maps?' - Worcestershire County Council) {November, 2007}
England - Worcestershire - Dudley. 'Historic Maps of Dudley' (Ordnance Survey maps (both pre- and post-1950) and other official maps from the 18th & 19th centuries - Dudley Council) {March, 2010}
England - Yorkshire. (fairly high res. scans for four parishes: Alverthorpe, Crigglestone, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe and Thornes (list of names and plot numbers are available for a fee) - Wakefield & District Family History Society) {July, 2005}
England - Yorkshire. 'East Riding of Yorkshire Archive Maps' (a good but incomplete selection of large-scale OS maps, 1850s-1930s, requiring DjVu plug-in and svg enabled web-browser - East Riding Council) {October, 2012}
England – Yorkshire. ‘Gem From The Archives – Barnsley Local Board of Health Map’ (comments by Paul Stebbing about the 1856 map) {August, 2023}
England - Yorkshire. 'Map of the counties North York Shire and Humberside' (the 4 sections of John Warburton's map of c.1720, enlargeable to high res. - Museo Naval, Madrid) {April, 2013}
England - Yorkshire. North Yorkshire. Online Mapping Service (large scale OS maps 1846-1958 can be selected and overlaid - North Yorkshire County Council) {May, 2013}
England - Yorkshire. ‘Picture Sheffield: Historical Maps’ (select from about 30 high res., scrollable maps, c.1607-1883 – Sheffield City Council) {November, 2020}
England - Yorkshire. 'Tracks in Time. The Leeds Tithe Map Project' (high res. scans of 58 tithe maps (1838-51) can be directly compared with one from a choice of modern and 25 inch Ordnance Survey mapping or air photos, representing 'the earliest systematic, large-scale cartographic record of the area'; as you enlarge or pan one image the paired image changes to match it; with access to genealogical and land-use data; modelled on the e-Mapping Victorian Cheshire site - West Yorkshire Archive Service, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund). [Also here] {November, 2009}

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England & Wales

England & Wales. Bartholomew half-inch to the mile (37 sheets, 1902-6, in high res. - National Library of Scotland) {December, 2012}
England & Wales. Bartholomew half-inch to the mile (1919-26; in high res. - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2017}
England & Wales. ‘Cartophilia. Old county maps of England and Wales (‘non-profit site devoted to the presentation of high and medium resolution images of English and Welsh maps from their beginnings to the early 20th Century. At present it contains over 4,500 images free to download and intended for academic: educational: genealogical, aesthetic and local history purposes’) {May, 2023}
England & Wales. Christopher Saxton, ‘Atlas of the Counties of England & Wales’ (illustrated with whole maps and high res. details - Glasgow University Library Special Collections Department: Book of the Month, June 2002, by Julie Gardham) {March, 2005}
England & Wales. Christopher Saxton. The ‘Burghley Atlas’ (containing printed and coloured maps from drawings by Saxton, dated between 1576 and 1577) {May, 2021}
England & Wales. 'Forests and Chases of England and Wales, c. 1500 to c. 1850: an Inventory of Early Maps and Plans' (arranged by counties: a listing, with sample, low res. details (particularly for Hampshire) - Graham Jones) {July, 2005}
England & Wales. Geological maps (6-inch and 1-inch to the mile OS maps with geological information added on top – National Library of Scotland) {May, 2023}
England & Wales. Geology. 'BGS maps portal — maps and sections 1832 to 2014' (a large number of sheets [figure not given but a further 900 are to be added] including, in high res., "all the maps and sections that were produced in hand-coloured form {1835-c.1900, at 1:63,360 =1 inch to the mile}. While the formal printed editions of most maps were few, there were frequent minor changes to the colouring scheme"; including an 'Index to colours used on geological maps', and 'The origins of systematic geological mapping in Britain'; also, for each of the three regions, horizontal and vertical sections, a 'short history' and Timeline - British Geological Survey) {April, 2013; updated 1 April 2015}
England & Wales. ‘John Ogilby’s Britannia, 1675’ (the text and 100 plates, enlargeable to fairly high res. – Chris Mullen, Full Table) {March, 2018}
England & Wales. 'New Popular Mapping' (scans, enlargeable to high res., and accessible via postcode, from the 146 sheets of the Ordnance Survey's out-of-copyright New Popular Edition at 1 inch to the mile (1:63,360) from the 1940s) {November, 2006; amended April 2009}
England & Wales. Ordnance Survey National Grid 1:1,250 and 1:2,500 maps of England and Wales (1940s-1970s) (137,859 sheets, high res. - completing the coverage of the online our out-of-copyright maps at these scales for England, Scotland and Wales - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2024}

England & Wales. ‘Ordnance Survey - Half-Inch Administrative Area Diagrams, England and Wales, 1899-1972’

1,371

high res.

{May, 2023}

England & Wales. Ordnance Survey. One-inch to the mile, Old Series. 1805-73 (enlargeable to very high res. - National Library of Australia) {June, 2014}
England & Wales. Ordnance Survey. One-inch to the mile, 'New Series'. 1864-98 (enlargeable to high res. - National Library of Australia) {June, 2014}
England & Wales. ‘Ordnance Survey One-Inch Maps of England and Wales, 1870s-1950s’ (2,408 sheets, enlargeable to very high res. - National Library of Scotland) {May, 2023}
England & Wales. Ordnance Survey. One-inch to the mile. Revised New Series. 1892-1908 (346 sheets; including both the Outline edition (with relief shown by contour lines) and the Hills edition (using brown hachures), enlargeable to very high res. - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2014}
England & Wales. Ordnance Survey. One-inch to the mile. New Popular Edition, 1945-7 (see also Here for 'geo-referenced historical [i.e. original] maps overlaid upon Google maps, satellite and terrain layers' - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2009; updated March 2017}
England & Wales. Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile (1:10,560) (59,338 sheets [August 2016], all editions 1840s to 1940s, accessible via the Find by Place viewer, using a gazetteer of placenames, street names, postcodes and Grid References, or via County Lists - National Library of Scotland) {March, 2014; amended August 2014}
England & Wales. ‘Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch England and Wales, Special Emergency Edition’ (1939) (enlargeable to very high res. - National Library of Scotland) {May, 2023}
England & Wales. 'Ordnance Survey 25 inch England and Wales (1841-1952)' (89,800 sheets, enlargeable to high res.; 'view the maps using a graphic index, by a list of all sheets, and as a seamless georeferenced layer' - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2015; updated August 2017}
England & Wales. Ordnance Survey Town Plans, 1:500, 1850s-1890s (National Library of Scotland) {February, 2022}
England & Wales. Ordnance Survey see also below under 'Great Britain. Ordnance Survey'

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Great Britain

Great Britain (medium to high res. [when zoomed], about 85,000 large-scale maps (1846-99) accessible via place-name or co-ordinate - Landmark /Ordnance Survey)
Great Britain (high res. scans of maps and three atlases: Cary’s Travellers Companion (1790 - England & Wales), T. Milner’s A Descriptive Atlas of Astronomy and of Physical and Political Geography (1850 - a World atlas), Philips' Handy Atlas of the Counties of Wales (n.d.) - maproom.org) {July, 2004}
Great Britain. ‘Baedeker's Old Guide Books’ (65 town plans, high res., from the 7th edition, 1910 - Alan Gresley) {December, 2004}
Great Britain. ’Bartholomew's "Revised Half Inch Maps" of Great Britain, 1940-47’ (62 sheets, enlargeable to high res. - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2018}
Great Britain. Canals. 'Canalmaps Archive: Historic Maps and Plans of Inland Navigation' (a list of maps and plans in the author's collection (some with links to images enlargeable to high res., including Bradshaw's 1830 map of the Midland Canals) and 'A brief introduction to the history of waterway cartography' - Richard Dean) {July, 2008}
Great Britain. Gough Map. 'Mapping the Realm: English cartographic constructions of fourteenth-century Britain' (an interactive online version of the ‘Gough Map’ of Great Britain [c. 1360], allowing zooming to high res., using GIS to create layers for the different information - Queen’s University, Belfast in collaboration with the Bodleian Library which holds the map) {September, 2005; updated October 2007}
Great Britain. 'Maps of Britain by commercial publishers, 1840s-1970s' (high res.) maps, comprising 'Maps of whole countries, County maps and Town plans [including London]' - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2024}
Great Britain. ‘Matthew Paris’s Clickable Map: An Interactive Claudius Map’ (an annotated copy of Matthew Paris’s c. 1250 map of Britain (BL Cotton MS Claudius D VI) - Historia Cartarum) {March, 2022}
Great Britain. 'NLS Maps API: Historic map of Great Britain for use in mashups' ('How to display the historic map in your mobile device or phone (including the Apple iPhone, iPad or Android mobile)', based on out-of- copyright Ordnance Survey maps from the 1920s-40s - National Library of Scotland) {May, 2010}
Great Britain. 'Old Maps of Great Britain' (a large selection of early maps [select the relevant English or Welsh county] - some in high res. - Cartophilia.org) {August 2023}
Great Britain. 'Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 - Epoch 1' (full coverage, at medium res. of the thousands of 6-inch-to-the-mile plans covering the whole of Great Britain from 1840 onwards, from Landmark - British History Online) {June, 2007}
Great Britain. 'Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 - Epoch 1' (medium res. scans of 19th century coverage for 21 British cities, at 25 inches to the mile, from Landmark - British History Online) {June, 2007}
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Administrative Area Series, 1945-1968 (1,130 sheets, enlargeable to high res. - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2020}
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Outline Series, 1945-1965 (4,129 sheets, enlargeable to high res. - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2020}
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey. Two geo-referenced series ((1) 1:63,360 Seventh Series, 1952-1961 - 190 sheets; (2) 1:25,000 Provisional / First series, 1937-1961 - 2,027 sheets; for further details see here - National Library of Scotland) {May, 2012}
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey. ‘Characteristics Sheets’ (40 sheets of symbols / conventional signs / type specimens, c.1840-1930 – National Library of Scotland) {January, 2017}
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey. ‘Cover Story’ (seven OS covers, with notes: Carlos Garcia-Minguillan for the British Library ‘Maps and Views’ blog, 27 January 2017) {January, 2017}
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey Maps, Covers and Indexes (Charles Close Society) {February 2010}
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey. 'New Revised Series' (346 sheets, 1893-8, enlargeable to very high res. - the link takes you to Chris Fleet's explanatory post to lis-maps, 12 September 2013, about the different editions involved - National Library of Scotland) {September, 2013}
Great Britain. 'Ordnance Survey One-Inch Seventh Series’ (1952-70, very high res. - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2021}
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey. 'On the Trig' ("The story of the Trigonometrical Survey of England and Wales, including original drawings by the surveyors"; a 'tour' with text and illustrations - British Library) {July, 2005}
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey - Ten-Mile Planning maps, 1944-1960' (42 high res. scans - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2012}
Great Britain. Ordnance Surveyors' Drawings (1780s-1840s) (the 351 drawings - British Library, 'Online Gallery') {August, 2003; amended October 2008}
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey see also under 'England & Wales' above and 'Scotland' below
Great Britain. 'Scanned Images, Engravings and Pictures from Old Books' (searching via keyword for 'maps' produced 91 entries (the images enlargeable to high res.) of maps 'mostly scanned from old books, ranging in date from the 1500s up to the 1920s and early 1930s', featuring maps of the English counties (e.g. from Harmsworth's Encyclopaedia (1904) but also Scotland and Wales - Liam Quin) {August, 2008}
Great Britain. 'Thomas Telford: engineer. "Colossus of Roads"' ('250 years after his birth, records in the Parliamentary Archives document the work of a great engineer' - medium res. maps and documents) {December, 2007}
+ Great Britain. 'Through the Whole Island: Excursions in Great Britain' (browse the sections for medium res. maps; click on 'Exhibition captions' for the text - Cambridge University Library, 2007) {December, 2007}
'Great Britain time traveller' (allowing century-old Bartholomew half-inch maps to be compared with modern versions - National Library of Scotland) {December, 2012}
Great Britain. 'A Vision of Britain Through Time' (the sources include, inter alia, 'Topographical, land use and administrative maps from the 19th and 20th Centuries', a Place-name Authority List, Census Reports, Travel Writing, etc., allowing zooming in to a range of geo-referenced maps; see also the Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GBHGIS) ('a unique digital collection of information about Britain's localities as they have changed over time') - University of Portsmouth) . [Also here] {September, 2005; amended July 2009}
Great Britain. War Office 1:20,000, GSGS 2748, 1923-29 (21 sheets, enlargeable to high res. - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2020}
Great Britain. 'William Smith's Maps - Interactive' (a comprehensive, encyclopedic site devoted to the geological map of 1815 and those that followed, with a large number of scans from different sources; the various contributions edited by Peter Wigley, January 2015) {March, 2015}

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Ireland

Ireland (medium res. county maps from Samuel Lewis’s atlas, c.1839 - Tom Courtney) {December, 2004}
Ireland ('through help from an Irish Open Street Mapper, Bartholomew, Quarter Inch to the mile mapping of Ireland (1940), and War Office, One Inch to the mile, G.S.G.S. 4136, (1940-43), has been seamed, georeferenced and overlaid on Google/Bing mapping' - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2012}
Ireland. 'The Down Survey of Ireland' (a unified collection, from different repositories, of around 2000 county, barony and parish maps, enlargeable to high res. from William Petty's 'Down Survey of Ireland', 1656-8, overlaid "onto Ordnance Survey maps and Google maps, and employing geographic information system technology, the website allows users to explore this turbulent period in Irish history to an extraordinary level of detail", with a searchable database of over 10,000 landowners described in the 'Books of Survey and Distribution' - Trinity College Dublin) {May, 2013}
Ireland. 'Early Irish maps from State Papers c.1558 - c.1610' (over 70 maps, 'depicting plantations, fortifications and townships'; there is a sample enlargeable pdf image, but you must pay for others; see also a BBC page with commentary by Rose Mitchell and a link to six illustrations - the [UK] National Archives) {October, 2009}
Ireland. Geology. 'Historical maps of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland' (a large number of sheets [figure not given but a further 900 are to be added] including, in high res., "all the maps and sections that were produced in hand-coloured form {1835-c.1900, at 1:63,360 =1 inch to the mile}. While the formal printed editions of most maps were few, there were frequent minor changes to the colouring scheme"; including an 'Index to colours used on geological maps', and 'The origins of systematic geological mapping in Britain'; also, for each of the three regions, horizontal and vertical sections, a 'short history' and Timeline - British Geological Survey) {April, 2013}
Ireland. 'A History of Mapping in Ordnance Survey Ireland' (a YouTube video, 8½ mins, from OS Ireland) {August, 2011}
Ireland. 'Ireland's history in maps: more Irish maps' (Dennis Walsh) {November, 2001}
Ireland. 'Irish historical geological maps' ('a range of historical geological maps, sections and memoirs of the island of Ireland, mostly from the 19th century. .. The site has been developed jointly by the Geological Survey of Ireland, the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland and the British Geological Survey') {June, 2011}
Ireland. ‘Mapping History’ (the first two sections cover Ireland (‘Irish Localities’ and ‘The Island of Ireland’), the remainder the rest of the world – Marsh’s Library, Dublin) {March, 2021}
Ireland. ‘Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) 19th Century Historical Maps’ (1,369 sheets, enlargeable to high res. – ‘A collection of mainly 19th century maps of almost 150 cities, towns, and villages in the Republic of Ireland. Most are Town Plans which were surveyed at either five or ten foot to one mile scale between 1837 and 1896. The remainder were produced by enlargement of the 1/2500 maps between 1892 and 1911’) {March, 2016}
Ireland. ‘OS Six-Inch Ireland 1st edition maps (1820s-1840s)’ ‘and ‘OS Six-Inch Ireland 2nd and later edition maps (1840s-1960s)’ (4,705 maps, enlargeable to very high res. - National Library of Scotland) {October, 2023}
Ireland. 'Surveys of Irish fortifications carried out by the English military surveyor, Thomas Phillips (1635?-1693)' (by Elizabeth M Kirwan, Louise Walsworth-Bell & Avice-Claire Mc Govern, 2008-09 - National Library of Ireland, 'Collection List No.157. Phillips Maps') {February, 2010}
Ireland. The ‘Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland’ (‘The Treasury re-imagines and reconstructs through digital technologies the Public Record Office of Ireland, a magnificent archive destroyed on June 30th, 1922; a search for ‘maps’ found 4,034, enlargeable to high res.) {September, 2022}
Ireland. 'Wars & Conflict: the Plantation of Ulster' (click on 'Raven Maps' for text and audio [with transcripts] relating to the 12 London Companies and, specifically, the 1622 survey by Thomas Raven - BBC) {November, 2007}
Ireland - Cavan. 'Historical Maps' (a selection of medium to high res. images of maps relating to County Cavan, including 13 plates from Taylor & Skinner's 1778 road book - Colin Ferguson) {July, 2005}
Ireland - Clare. ‘Historical Maps of County Clare’ (an Internet GIS, based on the 1842 Ordnance Survey 6-Inch maps, with the Grand Jury and Petty maps, and 49 maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection, viewable with the DjVu Browser Plug-in - Clare County Library) {March, 2007; updated October 2007}
Ireland. 'Cork city: old maps and images' (18 plans, 1545-1893, enlargeable to high res. - Cork City Library: Ask about Ireland). [See also 'Cork in Old Maps'] {February, 2006; updated December 2006}
Ireland. Dublin City Libraries and Archive Digital Repository (a search for ‘map’ retrieved 1012 entries, 1695-1827) {February, 2017; updated November 2021}
Ireland - Dublin. 'Connecting to the Past: Mapping South Dublin County in Time' (a GIS application using maps from 1760 onwards - South Dublin County Council) {August, 2010}
Ireland - Limerick (details of seven earlier maps of the town - Limerick’s Life) {February, 2007}
Ireland - Mayo. 'Mayo Maps Online' (the 1838 6-inch OS map, Bald's map, and various estate maps, viewable with the SVG-Viewer or the DjVu- Viewer plugin - Mayo County Library) {September, 2007}

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Scotland

Scotland. National Library of Scotland (in 2012 the very large, and growing, website {over 150,000 in July 2016} was provided with three new access routes: Find by Place, Browse by Category and Mapmakers, surveyors & engravers; in 2017 a new search interface was added: Find by Place - with Marker; see also three website help videos ; in addition you can Explore Georeferenced Maps; additions during 2013 included a new image viewer and a side- by-side viewer for georeferenced maps; in July 2017 Chris Fleet posted a guide, 'Using the Library’s open-source map viewers'; for latest news, see the Recent Additions page, the online Cairt. newsletter, and the Library's blog, Category: Maps; in 2021, 'New User Community resources / guides' was added); in 2023 it was possible to 'add your own layer of information to our historic maps, and view and edit this' {note started December, 2012 and updated regularly thereafter}
'ScotlandsPlaces: Make the Connections' (enabling a joint search across selected materials, including maps and documents from the National Records of Scotland [over 2000 maps and plans] and the National Library of Scotland) {February, 2011; amended July 2011}
Scotland - Maps of Scotland (very high res. images of the following atlases: Blaeu (1654), Moll (1745), Thomson (1832), Bartholomew's Survey Atlas of Scotland (1912); and a wide range of other material - National Library of Scotland) {November, 2009}
Scotland. 'Admiralty Charts of Scotland, 1795-1963' (950 charts, enlargeable to high res. - National Library of Scotland) {June, 2015}
Scotland. 'The Atlas of Scotland' (John Thomson, 1832) (the entire atlas with text, enlargeable to very high res. - David Rumsey Collection) {August, 2008}
Scotland. Bartholomew. 'Maps by John Bartholomew & Son' (from 1865-1940, enlargeable to high res. - National Library of Scotland) {June, 2015}
Scotland. Bartholomew half-inch to the mile (29 sheets, 1899-1905, in high res.; see also the Cairngorms layer colour explorer, which allows the contour layer colouring to be compared to modern versions - National Library of Scotland) {December, 2012}
Scotland. 'Bartholomew Survey Atlas of Scotland, 1912' (including 68 map plates [45 large topographical maps at half-inch to the mile covering the whole country, and town plans], and a further five thematic maps found only in the 1895 edition, enlargeable to high res., and J.G. Barthoomew's history of the cartography of Scotland - National Library of Scotland) {December, 2012}
Scotland. ‘Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland, 1897-1909’ (232 high res., zoomable images, covering 562 inland lochs, provided with a pilot web-mapping search application, and scanned texts - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2004; updated July 2007}
Scotland. 'Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654' (you can access the very high res., zoomable, maps (49) and texts (accompanied by Ian C Cunningham's first English, fully searchable, translation) via indexes (including a comprehensive and scholarly place-name index), selecting either via a hotlinked map, or via a browsing index; the facsimiles are supported by referenced, hyperlinked essays. A graphic index was added in 2018 - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2004}
Scotland. ‘Boundaries Viewer’ (enabling you to view counties and parishes from the 1950s, and unitary authorities, districts and boroughs from 2017 - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2018}
Scotland. ‘Charles Goad Fire Insurance Plans of Scottish Towns, 1880s-1940s’ (230 plans, enlargeable to very high res. - National Library of Scotland) {December, 2020}
Scotland. 'Charting the Nation: maps of Scotland and associated archives, 1550-1740' (3,558, high res. images using Luna Imaging's Insight technology, with historical commentary). [This also forms part of the multi-collection Visual Collections site - select ‘Cartography’]. {May, 2002}
Scotland. 'Coasts of Scotland on marine charts, 1580-1850' (a good selection, arranged chronologically, enlargeable to high res. - National Library of Scotland) {June, 2009}
Scotland. 'Counties and regions of Scotland, 1580-1750' (an introductory page leading to: 'View maps of counties and regions of Scotland, 1580-1928'; a large selection of maps zoomable to very high res. - National Library of Scotland) {September, 2010}
Scotland. 'Early maps of Scotland 1560-1928' (about 1,300 high res. MrSID images, including Gordon and Adair MSS, and atlases by Blaeu, Wood, Thomson, Taylor & Skinner and Bartholomew, along with Ordnance Survey one-inch mapping (1890s and 1920s) searchable by geographic area (Scotland, counties, coasts, towns [including Berwick] - arranged chronologically) and personal name - National Library of Scotland) {September, 2003}
Scotland. ‘Estate maps of south-west Scotland, 1750s-1840s’ (300 estate plans, enlargeable to very high res., covering Dumfries-shire, Kirkcudbright-shire, Lanarkshire, and Wigtownshire – National Library of Scotland) {January, 2017}
Scotland. 'Estate Maps of Scotland, 1772-1878' (high res., a 'brief selection' of those digitised - National Library of Scotland) {October, 2015}
Scotland. ‘Explore Historic Maps of Scotland, Now in 3D. The National Library of Scotland isn’t afraid of heights’ (Jessica Leigh Hester, Atlas Obscura, 3 April 2019) {May, 2019}
Scotland. Geology. 'Historical maps of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland' (a large number of sheets [figure not given but a further 900 are to be added] including, in high res., "all the maps and sections that were produced in hand-coloured form {1835-c.1900, at 1:63,360 =1 inch to the mile}. While the formal printed editions of most maps were few, there were frequent minor changes to the colouring scheme"; including an 'Index to colours used on geological maps', and 'The origins of systematic geological mapping in Britain'; also, for each of the three regions, horizontal and vertical sections, a 'short history' and Timeline - British Geological Survey) {April, 2013}
Scotland. 'Great Reform Act. Plans and Reports, 1832' (covering 75 towns, enlargeable to high res., with an explanatory text - National Library of Scotland) {May, 2009}
Scotland. 'Historical Map Overlays' (OS and Bartholomew maps, at various scales, 1843-1935, 'geo-referenced historical [i.e. original] maps overlaid upon Google maps, satellite and terrain layers' - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2009}
Scotland. John Finlayson’s ‘A Plan of the battle of Culloden’ (a brief illustrated note by Craig Statham, 1 November 2016 - National Library of Scotland) {April, 2018}
Scotland. 'John Kirk - Survey of farms in Golspie and Loth parishes, Sutherland, ca. 1772' ('the earliest detailed survey of two parishes in east Sutherland - two volumes containing 20 detailed estate plans', zoomable to high res., with a brief accompanying note; National Library of Scotland) {January, 2008}
Scotland. ‘John Yule’s Plan of the Lands of West Calder, 1808’ (a brief illustrated, undated essay – Museum of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry) {October, 2017}
Scotland. 'Land Utilisation Survey, Scotland, 1931-1935' (92 sheets, enlargeable to high res.; to compare the 1930s and 2015 see Land Use Viewer - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2015; updated January 2016}
Scotland. 'Second Land Utilisation Survey, Scotland, 1964-1975' (860 field survey sheets, high res. - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2024}
Scotland. ‘Mapping Scotland’ (a short illustrated note by Claire Breay focused on John Hardyng’s map of 1457, for the British Library’s medieval manuscripts blog, 20 February 2002) {February, 2022}
Scotland. 'Maps for a Small Country' ('An exhibition of historical maps and atlases of Scotland, held in Glasgow University Library, June - August 1991', illustrated with enlargeable details - by John N. Moore, adapted for the web in 2006 by Sarah Hepworth) {November, 2015}
Scotland. 'Military maps of Scotland (18th century)' (almost 400 high res. MrSID images, mostly of 18th century Board of Ordnance plans and material from the General George Wade Collection - National Library of Scotland) {December, 2001}
Scotland. Military. ‘Plotting the history of Scotland’s military maps’ (an interview with Christopher Fleet about his co-authored book, Scotland: Defending the Nation, by Michael Alexander for The Courier, 16 February 2019, including sample illustrations) {March, 2019}
Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey Air Photo Mosaics of Scotland, 1944-1950' ("all 221 OS published air photo mosaics covering Scotland (all of these at 1:10,560 scale) as original zoomable images, and as two sets of geo-referenced overlays, one with an historical 1930s mapping backdrop, and the other with a backdrop of Google/Microsoft modern mapping and air photography. The geo-referenced Google overlays have been created using the free and open-source MapTiler software" - National Library of Scotland) {September, 2009}
Scotland. Ordnance Survey. Geological Survey of Scotland, One-Inch and Six-Inch to the Mile maps, 1850s-1940s, comprising: Six-Inch home page and One-Inch home page (all in very high res. - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2019}

Scotland. Ordnance Survey. ‘German Army, Karte von Schottland 1:50,000, 1941’

very high res.

{August, 2019}

Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey Half-Inch and Quarter-Inch Indexes‘ (1890s-1960s - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2021}
Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895' (about 1,900, high res., zoomable MrSID images, forming a comprehensive set of holdings of 61 towns, at 1:500, 1:528 or 1:1,056, with descriptions - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2003}
Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey maps' (Use this as an index to the large and growing collection of OS maps at all the scales, enlargeable to very high res., which are no longer being separately listed) {September, 2020}
Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey maps' (indexes to very high res. scans of 'Larger scale maps (at 25-inch and six-inch to the mile); Map series; Town plans' - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2008}
Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey maps - County Series for Scotland, 1840s-1950s' (very high res. scans of over 40,000 sheets - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2012}
Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey maps - Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882' (very high res. scans of the 2,123 sheets, which constitutes 'the first comprehensive topographic survey of Scotland' (at 1:10,560); you can browse by county or parish, use the interactive map and place-names, or apply the Google maps overlay; with guides to abbreviations and symbols, and a background essay, 'Scottish Paper Landscape' - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2008; updated November 2008}
Scotland. ‘Ordnance Survey maps’ – Six-inch, 1840s-1880s (railway and other variant states - National Library of Scotland) {February, 2022}
Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey maps - Six-inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1960' (7,486 images, zoomable to high res. of the maps at 1:10,560 - National Library of Scotland) {November, 2011}
Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey maps - 25 inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1855-1882' (very high res. scans of the 13,045 sheets (at 1:2,500), searchable via gazetteer or graphic index; with guides to Abbreviations (by Richard Oliver) and Symbols and a pair of illustrated essays: 'Background, coverage, and sheet numbering' and 'Map content, printing and colouring' - National Library of Scotland) {June, 2009}
Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey maps - 25 inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1949' (17,466 sheets, in high res., all revised 1892-1907; those for more populated and rapidly changing areas selectively revised 1914-1940s; searchable via an interactive index map, or by county, parish and a gazetteer - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2012}
Scotland. ‘Ordnance Survey maps’ – 25 inch 'blue-and-black' drawings, 1890s-1940s (National Library of Scotland)) {February, 2022}
Scotland. ‘Ordnance Survey 25 Inch Edinburgh Transcriptions Map Viewer and Search Interface’ (30,000 text transcriptions - National Library of Scotland) {May, 2023}
Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey National Grid maps, 1940s-1960s' (5,921 sheets of the 1:2,500 series, covering large areas of the Central Belt, the Borders and parts of north-east Scotland, dating from 1945-1967 - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2018}
Scotland. Ordnance Survey One-inch to the mile maps of Scotland, 2nd Edition (Hills), 1885-1903 (131 sheets, enlargeable to high res.; see also Second edition with coloured parishes, 1898-1904 and 'Popular' Edition, 1921-8, as well as the general explanatory note - National Library of Scotland) {November, 2013}
Scotland. Ordnance Survey One-Inch Popular edition Scotland - derivative series, 1930s-1940s, comprising: ’OS One-Inch Popular Outline edition, 1921-2’; ’OS Water and Contour “pulls”, c.1930s’ ; ’War Office GSGS 3908, One-Inch Scotland, 1933’; ‘OS One-Inch Popular Outline edition, Water in Blue, 1941-2’; ’OS One-Inch Popular with National Grid, Outline edition, 1945-7’; and ‘War Office, GSGS 4639, One-Inch Scotland, 1947-50’ (all in very high res. - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2019}
Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey maps - Half-Inch and Quarter-Inch Indexes‘ (1890s-1960s - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2021}
Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey maps - Quarter-inch (1901-60, 182 sheets, very high res. - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2021}
Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey maps - Quarter-Inch Administrative Maps‘(1930s-1960s- National Library of Scotland) {August, 2021}
Scotland. Roads. ‘OS 1:126,720 Ministry of Transport Road Maps of Scotland, 1923’ (34 maps, enlargeable to high res. - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2017}
Scotland. ‘Roy Map and Gazetteer’ (the new version has 33,523 names - National Library of Scotland) {May, 2023}
Scotland. 'Roy Military Survey of Scotland, 1747-1755' (the appropriate detail can be selected by county/parish/place-name or by zooming into the two general maps (which have been seamed) and displaying in high res.; with accompanying essays - National Library of Scotland, using the British Library's manuscript originals) {May, 2007}
Scotland. ‘ScotlandsPeople’ (over 2,400 maps, plans and drawings; you need to register to search - National Records of Scotland) {June, 2018}
‘Scotland’s premier topographer’ (an illustrated blog post placing Timothy Pont in the context of cartographic developments over the centuries; by Thony Christie, 11 May 2022) {May, 2022}
Scotland. Scottish military maps, 20th century (including very detailed WWI plans of defensive works in and around the Forth and Clyde estuaries - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2021}
Scotland. ’Scottish Oil Shale Maps’ (for access details see Cairt 30, p.5) {January, 2017}
Scotland. Scottish Post Office Directory maps, 1794-1944 (400 street maps of Scottish town, enlargeable to very high res.; either browse within the Town Plans/Views listing or use a graphic index - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2017}
Scotland. Shale Oil. ‘Maps and Plans’ (a sizeable collection of maps, from 1984 onwards, enlargeable to high res., covering the Scottish shale fields - Museum of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry). See also an earlier collection from the BP Archive) {October, 2017}
Scotland. 'Sheet Viewer' (open source graphic index applications for viewing 18,000 historic map series of Scotland; for a background note see Chris Fleet's post to lismaps on 10 October 2011; there is also a Help page - National Library of Scotland) {October, 2011}
Scotland. ‘Signet Library maps of Scotland, 1580s-1950s’ (494 maps, enlargeable to very high res. held by the Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet, Edinburgh) {August, 2020}
Scotland. 'Slezer's Scotland: engraved views from the 17th century' (73 high res. views from the seven editions of the Theatrum Scotiae (1693 and later) - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2008}
Scotland. 'Soil Survey of Scotland mapping (1950s-1980s)' (enlargeable to high res. - National Library of Scotland) {September, 2015}
Scotland. ‘Stevenson civil engineering plans, 1660s-1940s’ (comprising 1,072 plans, enlargeable to very high res. - National Library of Scotland) {December, 2020}
Scotland. Timothy Pont's mapping of Scotland in the late 16th century (very high res., zoomable MrSID images of all 77 maps, providing a clearer view than the original, combined with a comprehensive examination and footnoted analysis of the maps, biographies of their makers and gazetteers - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2001; subsequently updated}
Scotland. 'Town Plans / Views, 1580-1919' (index arranged by town to very high res. images - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2008}
Scotland. ‘War Office 1:25,000, Scotland, GSGS 3906, 1940-43’ (829) sheets, in very high res. - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2019}
Scotland. William Roy map (1747-55) (thumbnail coverage, with descriptions, of the entire military map of Scotland held in the British Library - access to the zoomable images is for subscribers only via password; it is easier to use the direct link. The Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN) site contains other Scottish maps) {August, 2001}
Scotland. 'William Roy - Military Antiquities of the Romans in North Britain, 1793' (for the 51 maps and plans (zoomable to very high res.) select 'List view' and, at the end, 'Plates' - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2008}
Scotland. 'Woodland in Scotland map viewer, 1840s-1880s' (with partners Zulu Ecosystems a digital layer showing woodland has been extracted from OS Six-Inch maps - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2024}
Scotland - Aberdeenshire. 'Monymusk Maps' (a small selection of medium to high res. details from estate maps; an educational site illustrating the effect of the Agricultural Revolution - Monymusk Arts Trust) {May, 2005}
Scotland - Assynt. ‘John Home’s survey of Assynt [Sutherland]’ (very high res. images and commentary on the 16 MS plans (at c. 1:18,000) in the Sutherland Estate Archive - National Library of Scotland) {February, 2005}
Scotland - Cambuslang. ‘Old Maps’ (a town 5 miles southeast of Glasgow; map details, mostly in high res. - Edward Boyle) {March, 2005}
Scotland - Dumfries-shire. 'Early estate maps of Dumfries-shire, 1760s-1820s' (238 estate maps - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2024}
Scotland - Dundee. ‘James Collie - Plans of Dundee 1851’ (over 80, zoomable high res. sheets - Dundee City Council [an ongoing project]) {February, 2005}
Scotland - Edinburgh. 'AddressingHistory' ('a searchable, historical database of the people of Edinburgh', combining 'data from digitised historical Scottish Post Office Directories (PODs) with contemporaneous historical maps'; the three maps currently available are Kincaid 1784, Bartholomew 1865 and Johnston 1905; you can search for People, Places or Professions) {November, 2010}
Scotland - Edinburgh. 'The Barker Panorama (Old Edinburgh by Robert Barker)' (images of the panorama started in 1796 and explanatory text about panoramas in general - Edinburgh Virtual Environment Centre) {July, 2002}
Scotland - Edinburgh. ‘Map Index’ (a large site with a good range of maps and map types, mostly 19th and 20th centuries and mostly high res.; imaginatively, for the city centre there are three comparative treatments of the same area: from the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1844), John Bartholomew’s map for the Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory (1925-6), and an aerial view of 2001 - also includes maps for neighbouring towns, Scotland as a whole and elsewhere - Peter Stubbs) {March, 2005}
Scotland - Edinburgh. 'Ordnance Survey National Grid maps, 1940s-1960s' (10,469 sheets, in very high res. at 1:1250 (50 inches to the mile) - National Library of Scotland) {July, 2014}
Scotland - Edinburgh. 'Visualising Urban Geographies' (historical data, c.1820-1940, combined with historical maps (1765-1945) from the National Library of Scotland, which can be compared in Google Maps with present-day maps and satellite images, 'allowing new insights into the spatial character and historical development of Edinburgh') {July, 2010}
Scotland - Glasgow. 'The Glasgow Story' (15 town plans from the Mitchell Library Maps Collections, or search for 'map') {October, 2007}
Scotland - Glasgow. 'Maps of Glasgow: Historical to Digital' ( high res. scans from 1778 - University of Glasgow Library) {May, 2009}
Scotland - Orkney. 'A history of Orkney maps' (considering 40 maps and charts (1583-1883) enlargeable to medium res.; a research site with an original methodology, using overlays and error diagrams (for 35 locations) to arrive a map lineage; concluding that "the development of the cartography of Orkney has not been a smooth progression through time but has depended on a relatively few surveys and their associated advances in surveying techniques"; the 'Methods' section (follow the 'Next' button) is the equivalent of an online essay - John K. Chesters) {July, 2006}
Scotland - ‘Stornoway and environs historic maps, 1780s-1960s’ (a collaborative project between the Western Isles Libraries and the National Library of Scotland to conserve and put online uniquely important maps of Lewis and Stornoway; the images are in high res.) {August, 2019}
Scotland - Wigtownshire. ‘Maxwells of Monreith Estate Maps and Plans, 1777-1778’ (133 detailed estate maps (enlargeable to very high res.) and accompanying schedules of land and extents, relating to the Maxwells of Monreith estate in Wigtownshire, surveyed by John Gillone, 1777-78 – National Library of Scotland) {July, 2016}

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Wales

Wales for each county, select from the Cartophilia.org index
Wales. National Library of Wales – map collection (a selection, arranged by category, enlargeable to high res.) {October, 2016}
Wales. National Library. ‘The Map Collection’ (brief notes, leading to scanned maps in some cases, on: MS estate maps, mining plans, nautical charts, OS, railway & public utility plans, sale catalogues, thematic mapping, tithe maps, etc. - National Library of Wales) {March, 2007}
Wales (medium res. county maps from Samuel Lewis’s atlas, 1833 - Tom Courtney) {December, 2004}
Wales. ‘Welsh Tithe Maps - Places of Wales‘ {comprising 1,224 tithe maps (1838-50);'search and browse over 300,000 entries from the tithe maps of Wales and accompanying apportionment documents using original and present-day maps'} {May, 2018}
Wales. ‘A history of Wales in 12 maps’ (originally mounted on the National Library of Wales website, May 2016) {May 2018}
Wales. 'Lewis Morris and William Morris' Sea Charts' (high res. charts of the Welsh coast: 25 from Lewis Morris (1748) and 32 from William Morris (1801), with commentary - National Library of Wales) {May, 2002}
Wales. 'The Principality of Wales exactly described' by Thomas Taylor (10 high res. maps from the first published atlas of Wales, 1718 - National Library of Wales) {May, 2002}
Wales. The Welsh Highland Railway (fairly high res. scans of the 25 inch to the mile Construction and topographical maps for the railway between Caernarfon and Porthmadog - Steve Harris) {February, 2005}
Wales - Anglesey. ‘Maps of Anglesey’ (four medium res. maps - Warren Kovach) {March, 2005}
Wales - Anglesey. ‘Maps of Parys mountain’ (a selection of low res. scans [larger ones can be applied for] of the mining area) {February, 2005}
Wales - Cardiganshire/Ceredigion. ‘Plwyf Llangynfelyn’ (a selection of high res. map details for this parish) {May, 2004}
Wales - Monmouthshire. 'Old Maps of Monmouthshire' (13 medium res. maps; see also Caerleon plans - Caerleon Net) {July, 2005}
Wales - Powys. ‘Brecon and District: Victorian Maps’ (eight details - Powys Digital History Project) {February, 2005}
Wales - see also under England & Wales above

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