+ online exhibitions       * works with a theoretical (often literary) dimension

British Isles

• Britain - see under Great Britain below
• ’British History Online’ (including over 2000 references to maps) {December, 2004}
• British Isles Map Guide (prepared by the dealer Richard Nicholson for collectors, this contains a considerable amount of bibliographical and historical information) {November 2000}
• ‘British Map Engravers – A Supplement’ (additional entries for British Map Engravers : A Dictionary of Engravers, Lithographers and their Principal Employers to 1850 by Laurence Worms & Ashley Baynton Williams, 2011) {January, 2020}
• ‘Cartographic connections – the digital analysis and curation of sixteenth-century maps of Great Britain and Ireland’ (illustrated article by C. Porter, K. Lilley, C. Lloyd, S. McDermott and R. Milligan, in: e-Perimetron, 14:2 (2019), pp.97-109) {August, 2019}
• 'The Communications' Mapping of British Towns' (David Smith - MapForum 12, May 2001) {May, 2001}
• Hunting. 'Mapping the Hunts: a Carto-Bibliography of mainly Fox and Stag Hunting Maps of the United Kingdom & Ireland' ([title taken from the 'Introduction'] - Tony Burgess) {July, 2013}
• '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}
• 'Manuscript sources for British history' (Institute of Historical Research, London) {September, 2006}
• National Archives (formerly Public Record Office) Information Leaflets (select 'Maps' for a range of subjects, e.g. Admiralty Charts, Canals, Enclosure Awards, Ordnance Survey, Tithes) {April, 2012}
• Ordnance Survey, see under Great Britain, and Scotland
• 'Print Publishers’ Catalogues' (notes transcribed by C.H.L. George from selected 17th & 18th century print (and map) publishers, based on material in the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art in Bloomsbury (London)and the British Museum's Prints & Drawings Department) {May, 2007}
• 'The [UK] School Atlas, 1885-1915' (an article by Michael Wise in Paradigm 23 (July 1997)) {December, 2012}

England

• England - see also under England & Wales below
• England. 'La Cartografia anglesa / English Cartography' (NB, in English; the full text of the 308-page volume, from the 1996 lecture series given by Roger J.P. Kain & Catherine Delano Smith, published by the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Barcelona, 1997. NB the file is large (60 MB) and will take time to download; note also that the texts were revised and reissued in 1999 by the British Library as English Maps: a History) {July, 2010}
• England. Dockyards. 'The Ingenious Mr Dummer: Rationalizing the Royal Navy in Late Seventeenth-Century England' (a well-illustrated, 58-page pdf article by Celina Fox in The Electronic British Library Journal, 2007, describing Edmund Dummer's voyage in the Mediterranean, 1682-4 [King's MS 40] and his survey of the six English royal dockyards, 1688-98 [King's MS 43]){January, 2008}
• England. ‘Estate maps at Guildhall Library’ (the text of a talk by Stacey Gee, Manuscripts Section, on 14 September 2004, complementing the exhibition ‘Lords of all they survey’) {February, 2005}
• England. ‘Imagine Nation: How Pocket Maps Helped Poets and Subjects Reenvision England’ (Mary Alexandra Agner, Humanities, January-February 2015) {May, 2016}
• England. 'Manorial Documents Register' (the MDR 'identifies the nature and location of manorial records', so far covering parts of England and all of Wales; selecting 'Advanced Search' and choosing Map from 'Type of Document' produced 803 entries, which can be searched for in various ways - The National Archives) {November, 2006}
• England. ‘Maps and Plans’ (notes on: Early maps, Ordnance Survey, Large scale plans, Town plans and Thematic maps, by Ian Maxted, Devon County Council, 2001 [written about Devon but with general relevance]) {February, 2005}
• England. Moule. 'The Original Monthly Numbers of Moule's English Counties' (reissue of an illustrated article by Tony Campbell in The Map Collector 31 (June 1985); about the issue in parts of Thomas Moule's The English Counties Delineated (1837) - Kunstpedia) {November, 2009}
• England. Ordnance Survey, see under Great Britain, and Scotland
• 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 a wide range of illustrated notes on ’chart features - Southampton Water and Solent’ (including an overlaid comparison with the Collins chart) - Jean and Martin Norgate, with notes also by Adrian Webb, 2002) {March, 2005}
• * England. ' "Upon the Suddaine View": State, Civil Society and Surveillance in Early Modern England' (by Swen Voekel, from Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998))
• see also Web Articles - Themes under 'Admiralty Charts'

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• 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) {July, 2005}
• England - Cambridgeshire. 'Handlist of Cambridgeshire tithe maps and apportionments in the County Record Office, Cambridge' (compiled 1982-2003) {July, 2010}
• + England - Cambridgeshire. 'Unfolding Landscapes: Maps of Cambridgeshire from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II' (illustrated summary to the 2003 exhibition at Cambridge University Library) {October, 2003}
• England - Cheshire. 'e-Mapping Victorian Cheshire: Cheshire's Tithe Maps Online' (almost 500 tithe maps, with the possibility of split-screen comparison between those and OS maps of c.1875 and 1910, and aerial photographs; search can be by owner or geographical name; see the 'Frequently Asked Questions' for background information; an imaginative and helpful site - Cheshire County Council) {October, 2007}
• + 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. ‘Maps and Plans’ (notes on: Early maps, Ordnance Survey, Large scale plans, Town plans and Thematic maps - Ian Maxted, Devon County Council, 2001) {February, 2005}
• England - Devon. 'Printed Maps of Devon, 1575-1837. Second Edition' (the full, illustrated text of the carto- bibliography by Kit Batten & Francis Bennett, originally published in 1996, incorporating numerous additions and corrections) {July, 2013}
• England - Devon. 'The Victorian Maps of Devon' (by Kit Batten & Francis Bennett; originally published in 2000, this is full text of the internet version of the revised Second Edition) {August, 2014}
• England - Durham. 'A guide to online historic maps, modern street maps, GIS maps, satellite photographs and aerial photographs of North East England' (mostly focused on Durham and Northumberland - KeymapsGB) {December, 2014}
• England - Durham - Sunderland. 'The maps of Sunderland, 1693-1900' (an illustrated account of a lecture by the late A.W. Weston in 1941 - Sunderland Antiquarian Society) {August, 2009}
• England – Fens. ‘Dryness pleaseth…’ (about Samuel Wells’s map of the Bedford Level, 1829; Stuart Ackland for Bodleian’s Map Blog, I February 2022) {February, 2022}
• England - Gloucestershire. 'Large Scale English County Maps and Plans of Cities not Printed in Atlases. Part 12' (reissue of an illustrated article by R.V. Tooley in The Map Collector 38 (March 1987) - Kunstpedia) {February, 2010}
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• 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 scans are available (evidently for 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. 'Old Hampshire mapped' (each map with accompanying notes and bibliography, indexes, gazetteers, feature details and analysis, etc.; a highly imaginative site; for a longer description see the relevant Images page under ’England - Hampshire’ - Jean and Martin Norgate) {March, 2005}
• 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 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 - Herefordshire. 'Herefordshire Field Names Database' (information transcribed from the tithe maps (c. 1838-45), searchable by parish, 'field name class' and owner's name - Herefordshire Council) {July, 2005}
• England - Hertfordshire. 'Maps of Hertfordshire' (notes, with some illustrations - Chris Reynolds) {July, 2005}
• England - Isle of Man. 'Cartobibliography of maps of the Isle of Man' (also check the homepage - Frances Coakley)
• England - Kent. 'Kent Maps and Tithe award schedules, apportionment etc.' (including transcriptions for most parishes - Kent Archaeological Society) {July, 2005}
• England – Kent. ‘A medical man maps Kent’ (about the map of Kent by Christopher Packe, who, as a physician, noted ‘the synergy between hydrology (specifically streams and rivers) and the flow of blood through the arteries and capillaries’; an illustrated note by Tom Harper on the British Library Maps and views blog, 12 January 2021) {January, 2021}
• 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 clear explanations to aid understanding of the bibliography and the way that the maps relate to Kent's history - a major addition to our knowledge of county mapping [since, by analogy, much of what he describes will be paralleled to some extent for other counties - perhaps a listing of the previous county cartobibliographies from which he has benefitted will follow later]; the first county bibliography of this scale to be placed on the web; with a large collection of images, for recognition, rather than study, purposes) {February, 2009}
• England - Kent. 'The Tithe Commutation Surveys in Kent' (by Roger Kain in Archaeologia Cantiana 89 (1977), pp. 101-118) {July, 2005}
• 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}
• England - Lancashire - Manchester. 'Forty Years of Planning the Future of Manchester: The Key Plans from 1926-1967' (eight reports showing what the city might have looked like - University of Manchester and Manchester City Council) {October, 2013}
• England – Lincolnshire. ‘A Map of the Great Levell of the Fenns...by Jonas Moore, 1658’ (‘Magnificent maps that didn't make the exhibition #3’ – British Library, Maps & Views blog, 14 June 2010) {August, 2016}

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• England - London. ‘The Abercrombie Plans’ (about Peter Abercrombie’s plans for Greater London during WWII - the Semaphore E-Line) {June, 2018}
• England - London. 'City Posts. Sources and bibliography: Maps' (on Martin Nail's page, 'The coal duties of the City of London and their boundary marks', about markers set up under the various coal duties Acts) {May, 2010}
• England - London. 'The Edwin C. Bolles Collection: A Digital Archive on the History and Topography of London' (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. [Historical] 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. ‘Fixing the Map Trade: The London of the London Mapmakers of the Eighteenth Century’ (a blog-post by Laurence Worms - Ash Rare Books, 25 July 202, an updated version of a 2008 talk, well-illustrated with maps of London, with, as would be expected, a thoughtful look at the maps’ contents and the contribution, for good or bad, of the map publishers involved) {July, 2022}
• England - London. Greenwood's map (1827) [including clickable place-name index - Bath Spa University College] {October 2000}
• England - London – Islington. ‘Tracing the morphological evolution of High Street Islington’ (an illustrated note by Laura Vaughan, et al. for Mapping Urban Form and Society, 12 April 2022) {May, 2022}
• England - 'London: A Life in Maps' (a virtual exhibition, featuring 40 maps and drawings, from the British Library exhibition, 2006-2007, with videos and educational materials) {May, 2007}
• England - London. 'Locating London's Past' (a blog, started in March 2011, intended to 'create an intuitive GIS interface that will enable researchers to map and visualize textual and artefactual data relating to seventeenth and eighteenth-century London against a fully rasterised version of John Rocque’s 1746 map of London and the first accurate modern OS map (1869-80)). [See also here] {October, 2011; amended December 2011}
• England - London. 'The map of early modern London' (an interactive version of the Guildhall Library's 'Agas map' (c.1633), including a hyperlinked street index, and linked via hotspots to historical notes; "the experimental map adds google-style layers to the map platform" - Janelle Jenstad and students, University of Victoria, Canada) {November, 2006; amended March 2008}
• England. London map trade (illustrated essays, from 2014 onwards, by Laurence Worms: ‘The London Map Trade to 1640’, ‘Seller, Pepys and the Seventeenth-Century London Map Trade’, ‘Location in the London Map Trade’, ‘The Search for John Senex F.R.S.: An Aspect of the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade’) {October, 2017}
• England - London. 'Mr. Charles Booth's Inquiry' (a research project at the London School of Economics devoted to his survey into life and labour in London) {January, 2001}
• 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. London Transport Museum. ‘Maps’ (a catalogue of 6,669 items, from 1860 onwards, mostly of maps, visible as enlarged thumbnails) {April, 2020}
• England. London Underground. ‘Colouring Inside the Lines’ (an illustrated note by Tim Bryars, 11 May 2016, about the precursors to the Beck map - see also the second part) {July, 2016}
• England. London Underground. ‘Henry invented what?’ (Douglas Rose drawing attention to the designs of George Dow, four years before Henry Beck’s iconic Underground map, which anticipates some of the features of that; for further links see the Map Room blog, 1 May 2018) {April, 2018}
• England - London. Underground. ‘The History of the Tube Map’ (notes to 12 illustrations – Darien Graham-Smith, for the Londonist, 17 May 2016) {May, 2016}
• * England - London Underground. 'Maps of the London Underground: Iain Sinclair and Michael Moorcock’s Psychogeography of the city' (by Brian Baker in Literary London Journal, Vol. 1, No.1, 2003) {July, 2003}
• England - London. 'Victorian Dictionary' (search, e.g. for 'map', for references in reproduced texts about London - Lee Jackson) {December, 2002}

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• England - Norfolk. ‘Enclosure Maps of Norfolk’ (brief explanatory notes - Norfolk County Council) {March, 2005}
• England - Norfolk. ‘Tithe Maps of Norfolk’ (brief explanatory notes - Norfolk County Council) {March, 2005}
• England - Northumberland. 'A guide to online historic maps, modern street maps, GIS maps, satellite photographs and aerial photographs of North East England' (mostly focused on Durham and Northumberland - KeymapsGB) {December, 2014}
• England - ’Northumberland Name Books’ (the 104 surviving Ordnance Survey Name Books for the county, containing over 15,000 names (c.1860), have been digitised and transcribed) {August, 2021}
• England – Oxford. ‘Mapping Public Health In Nineteenth-Century Oxford‘ (an illustrated article by Lauren Bouchard Killingsworth, in The Portolan, Journal of the Washington Map Society, 101 (Spring 2018): 17-21) {March, 2020}
• England – Oxfordshire. ‘Maps of Oxfordshire to 1800’ (an historical note with a selection of images, arcgis ‘Story maps’, 14 May 2021 – see also ’The Sheldon Tapestry map of Oxfordshire’, 30 March 2022) {May, 2022}
• England - 'Oxfordshire in Wool and Silk: Ralph Sheldon the Great's tapestry map of Oxfordshire' (illustrated article by Hilary L. Turner in Oxoniensia (2006) pp. 67-72) {December, 2013}
• England - Sussex - 'Lewes Map Catalogue' (Lewes History Group, September 2010) {October, 2010}
• England - Warwickshire. 'Maps and Map Making: the West Midlands Experience' (an historical essay in 12 sections, with associated illustrations - Revolutionary Players) {March, 2010}
• England - Warwickshire - Birmingham. 'Historical Birmingham Maps and Prospects' (a selection of plans with associated commentaries - Birmingham City Council) {March, 2010}

England & Wales

• England & Wales. Canals. 'Waterways of England and Wales: their history in maps' (outline maps and commentary, 'pre-1750' and then for each decade to 1950 - Michael L Stevens) {September, 2001}
• England & Wales. ‘The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales’ (listing, via ‘Search Catalogue’, "of all the parliamentary and non-parliamentary enclosure maps known to be extant and available at the time the fieldwork for this project was undertaken", searchable by place, county and year - an electronic database accompanying Roger J. P. Kain, John Chapman, Richard R. Oliver, The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales, 1595-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2004)) {March, 2005}
• England & Wales. 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 "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}
• England & Wales. '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 & Wales. Ordnance Survey, see under Great Britain, and Scotland
• England & Wales. Roads. ‘Viæ Regiæ: Mapping the Transport Network of England & Wales, 1530-1680’ {May, 2021}
• England & Wales. Saxton, ‘Atlas of the Counties of England & Wales’ (illustrated with whole maps and details - Glasgow University Library Special Collections Department: Book of the Month, June 2002, by Julie Gardham) {March, 2005}
• England & Wales. Saxton. 'A False Start on Christopher Saxton's Wall-map of 1583?' (a reissue of a 1979 illustrated article by Tony Campbell in The Map Collector - about a trial copper-plate for the wall-map of England and Wales) {June, 2008}
• England & Wales. Saxton. 'Maps of the Counties of England & Wales by Christopher Saxton (1579)' (notes on six maps - Newberry Library Slide Set #3) {April, 2006}
• England & Wales. Tithe maps. 'Digitizing and analyzing historical maps to provide new perspectives on the development of the agricultural landscape of England and Wales' (illustrated article about tithe maps by Alastair W. Pearson, in: e-Perimetron, 1:3 (Summer 2006), pp. 178-93) {December, 2006}
• England & Wales. ‘Tithe Records’ (Domestic Information Research Guide 41: The National Archives) {February, 2005}
• England & Wales. ‘Tithe Records’ (Devon County Council) {February, 2005}

Great Britain

• Great Britain. 'The boundary between Scotland and England in the Portolan charts' (32-page pdf file of the influential article by Michael C. Andrews, in: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 60 (1925-6) pp.36-66) {September, 2007}
• Great Britain. 'British Historic Towns Atlas' {April, 2012}
• Great Britain. Canals. 'Canalmaps Archive: Historic Maps and Plans of Inland Navigation' (including 'A brief introduction to the history of waterway cartography' and a list of maps and plans in the author's collection (some with links to images) - Richard Dean) {July, 2008}
• Great Britain. Canals. ‘Maps and Canals’ (an illustrated note by Magdalena Peszko for the British Library ‘Maps & Views’ blog, 16 April 2021 {May, 2021}
• Great Britain. 'Canal & Waterway Internet Resources - General' (select 'Historic' for links - mostly for Great Britain but also international) {July, 2008}
• Great Britain. 'Dating Bartholomew's 1/2 inch maps' (illustrated with map covers, Ross Kennedy, Green Lane Association Ltd, 2002) {December, 2003}
• Great Britain. Gough Map. 'The Date of the Gough Map' (by T.M. Smallwood in Vol.62: 1 (2010), 3-29 - winner of the fourth Imago Mundi Prize) [NB. Click on 'About this journal', then 'Featured articles'] {January, 2011}
• Great Britain. Gough Map. ‘Mr. Gough’s Map’ (a brief illustrated overview from the Bodleian Library for arcgis ‘Story maps’, 26 March 2022) {May, 2022}
• Great Britain. Gough Map. ‘Understanding the Gough Map: an application of physics, chemistry and history’ (an illustrated note by Catherine Delano Smith about the research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust to investigate the Gough Map of Britain, c.1400) {August, 2019}
• Great Britain. ‘How intrepid Victorian surveyors mapped the length and breadth of Britain’(an illustrated article from The Economist, 6 April 2023) {May, 2023}
• * Great Britain. 'Landscape and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Britain' (course notes by Lisa M. Zeitz, University of Western Ontario - one section entitled 'Mapping Ideas', after 1998) {February, 2002}
• Great Britain. Land use. 'The extraction of digital vector data from historic land use maps of Great Britain using image processing techniques' (illustrated pdf article by Brian Baily, in: e-Perimetron, 2:4 (Autumn, 2007), pp. 209-23) {June, 2008}
• Great Britain. Ordnance Survey 6 & 25 inch series maps (the National Library of Scotland's listing of the 152,332 six-inch and 25 inch to the mile County Series maps of England & Wales; the link takes you to Chris Fleet's explanatory post to lis-maps, 9 September 2013) {September, 2013}
• Great Britain. Ordnance Survey maps: sheet corner data (the Charles Close Society has made available the sheet corner data for all the One-Inch and 1:50,000 map series of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as the 1:25,000 Provisional Series of the United Kingdom) {July, 2013}
• Great Britain. 'Ordnance Survey Leisure Maps Summary Lists' (post-War, small scale OS mapping - Leslie V. Watson) {September, 2004}
• Great Britain. 'Ordnance Survey Abbreviations' (a comprehensive list compiled by Richard Oliver, covering all scales of OS mapping in Britain - National Library of Scotland) {November, 2008}
• Grat Britain. Ordnance Survey. Bibliography (a constantly updated, expanded version of the one found in Richard Oliver, Ordnance Survey maps: a concise guide for historians - Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps) {September, 2009}
• Great Britain. Ordnance Survey. Censorship. ‘For War Department purposes only: censorship and the Ordnance Survey’ (an illustrated note by Ellie King about the suppression of military features - the National Library of Wales blog, 11 May 2020) {May, 2020}
• Great Britain. Ordnance Survey. Charles Close Society Archives (see an explanatory note by Anne Taylor, 23 December 2011) {December, 2011}
• Great Britain. Ordnance Survey. 'Historians say Edinburgh Castle was birthplace of Ordnance Survey maps' ("Research undertaken by Historic Scotland for a new book has revealed that Edinburgh Castle is in fact the birthplace of the mapping institution. It was here, at the Governor’s House, that William Roy, father of the OS, and artist Paul Sandby, are believed to have collaborated on their first great mapmaking enterprise", by Caroline Lewis, 24 Hour Museum, 16 January 2008) {January, 2008}
• Great Britain. Ordnance Survey history ('A brief history of Ordnance Survey', and the entire texts of two books: W.A. Seymour, A History of the Ordnance Survey (Dawson, 1980 - 434 pages), and Tim Owen & Elaine Pilbeam, Ordnance Survey; Map Makers to Britain since 1791 (1992 - 206 pages)) {February, 2010}
• Great Britain. Ordnance Survey. ‘Initial GB1900 gazetteer for searching Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile, 1888-1913’ – National Library of Scotland) {July, 2018}
• Great Britain. Ordnance Survey. The Kenneth Guy Messenger collection of 5,500 smaller scale maps (see also ’Guy Messenger's collection of Ordnance Survey map series maps’ - Cambridge University Library) {June, 2019}
• Great Britain. Ordnance Survey. ‘Maps of a Nation? The Digitized Ordnance Survey for New Historical Research’ (‘By applying new Computer Vision methods leveraging machine learning, we outline a research pipeline for working with thousands (rather than a handful) of maps at once, which enables new forms of historical inquiry based on spatial analysis’: Kasra Hosseini, et al., Journal of Victorian Culture, 26: 2 (April 2021): 284–99) {May, 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. 'OS sheet records viewer' ('providing a single interface showing sheet boundaries and references to all the 1:10,000 and larger scale OS paper maps that were published in the UK, with dates of all the editions of County Series map sheets at these scales (and dates of all post-War National Grid paper map sheets for Scotland)'; funded by EDINA - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2014}
• Great Britain. Roman Britain. 'The map that never was' (reissue of an illustrated article by Rodney Shirley in The Map Collector 53 (Winter 1990); about William Stukeley's map of Roman Britain, supposedly based on Richard of Cirencester's of 1338, but really a fake by Charles Bertram - Kunstpedia) {July, 2010}
• Great Britain. 'The Roman Map of Britain' (a multi-page site, on the place-names of the British section of the 'Ravenna Cosmography' - Thomas G. Ikins) {November, 2001}
• Great Britain. ‘Soviet Military Maps of Britain’ (articles about the large scale plans of British and Irish towns and cities produced by the Soviets from the 1950s to 1990; articles by John Davies, David Watt and Henry Dodds, originally appearing in Sheetlines (the journal of The Charles Close Society), 2005-06. See also comment on the Cartography blog (November 2005)) {February, 2007}
• + Great Britain. 'Through the Whole Island: Excursions in Great Britain' (click on 'Exhibition captions' for the text - Cambridge University Library, 2007) {December, 2007}
• Great Britain - Towns. 'Catalogue of British Town Maps' ('...details of almost 8,000 maps and provides for each the key cartographical and other features and the location of publicly-accessible exemplars', accompanying: Roger J. P. Kain and Richard R. Oliver, British Town Maps: a History, London, British Library, 2015) {November, 2015}
• Great Britain. Towns. 'Historic Maps' (a brief, illustrated summary of the history of British town mapping - Jean Manco, Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles) {August, 2003}
• 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. '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}
• ‘William Smith — a man who changed the world’ (British Geological Survey) {March, 2017}

Ireland

• Ireland. ‘Online Resources for Irish Mapping’ (Trinity College Library, Dublin) {August, 2021}
• Ireland. 'The Down Survey of Ireland' (historical notes accompanying the 2000 or so maps of 1656-8 [click 'Down Survey Maps']; see also 'Map Sources' - Trinity College Dublin) {May, 2013}
• Ireland. 'Early Irish maps from State Papers c.1558 - c.1610' (explanatory texts and 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 "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. 'History of Maps' (an educational programme for primary schools - Changing Libraries Initiative) {December, 2009}
• Ireland. ‘Irish Maps. A catalog of the maps, atlases, and nautical charts of Ireland in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, with a select map gallery’ (‘the extensive list of more than 2,000 cartographic specimens in the collections of the Geography and Map Division, compiled by Patrick E. Dempsey, et al., April 2016) {July, 2016}
• Ireland. 'Map Collections at UCD and on the Web: Introduction' (a gateway site, comprising thematically and geographically organised lists of links, with sections on Ireland as a whole, Dublin, the separate counties, etc. - University College, Dublin) {August, 2014}
• Ireland. 'Maps for early Irish studies' ('some online map resources for early medieval Ireland' - Pádraic Moran, 13 April 2012) {August, 2013}
• Ireland. The National Library of Ireland. ‘Catalogue’ (4,206 maps are listed of which about 1,600 are provided with an enlargeable thumbnail image) {August, 2023}
• ’Ireland. OS200. Digitally Re-Mapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage‘ (see the project for the 3-year investigation, focusing particularly on the late-1820s through into the 1830s - an Irish Research Council and Arts and Humanities Research Council co-funded project) {October, 2021}
• * Ireland. Partial Views: Shakespeare and the map of Ireland (by Bernhard Klein, from Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998))
• Ireland. 'Placenames NI - The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project' (with an accompanying Map Search using 1st Edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey maps) {August, 2010}
• 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. '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 - Dublin. 'Map Collections at UCD and on the Web: Historic Maps of Dublin' (references to early plans, some online - University College, Dublin) {August, 2014}

Scotland

• BARTHOLOMEW. 'The Bartholomew Archive' (National Library of Scotland; see also a comprehensive publications list, and the Bartholomew Archive Blog) {January, 2006; updated April & October 2009, & March 2010}
• Scotland. Bartholomew. 'A brief guide to dating Bartholomew maps' (a 3-page listing by Ken Winch) {October, 2009}
• Scotland. 'Bartholomew: a Scottish family heritage. John Bartholomew and Son Ltd, Edinburgh. Publications' (1826-1976, divided into separate lists for Atlases and Maps, with links to online versions of some works - John E A Bartholomew, 2008) {October, 2009}
• Scotland. 'Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654' (a model web 'publication, celebrating the 350th anniversary of Scotland's first atlas - you can access the very high resolution, 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, including: 'A Vision of Scotland: Joan Blaeu and the Atlas novus ' by Charles W J Withers; 'Sources of the texts' by Ian C Cunningham; 'The history behind the publication of the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland' by Christopher Fleet; and biographical notes on eight associated individuals - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2004}
• Scotland. 'Charting the Nation: maps of Scotland and associated archives, 1550-1740' (2,200 images, with extensive historical commentary [the final total, for later in 2002, is expected to be 3,500 images]) {May, 2002}
• Scotland. ‘Gazetteers of Scotland, 1803-1901’ (links to 12 digitised gazetteers – National Library of Scotland) {April, 2018}
• 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 "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. Geology. 'Peach and Horne' (by Rob Butler, about B.N. Peach and J. Horne's 1907 memoir, The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland, in Geoscientist, 17, No.1, pp. 20-5 - University of Leeds) {January, 2008}
• Scotland. ‘George Campbell Smith of Banff (1804-68): surveying in Ross-shire, 1833-1851’ (by Douglas Lockhart, Cairt 33, July 2018, pp. 4-5) {July, 2018}
• Scotland. 'Great Reform Act. Plans and Reports, 1832' (covering 75 towns, with an explanatory text - National Library of Scotland) {May, 2009}
• Scotland. 'Historians say Edinburgh Castle was birthplace of Ordnance Survey maps' ("Research undertaken by Historic Scotland for a new book has revealed that Edinburgh Castle is in fact the birthplace of the mapping institution. It was here, at the Governor’s House, that William Roy, father of the OS, and artist Paul Sandby, are believed to have collaborated on their first great mapmaking enterprise", by Caroline Lewis, 24 Hour Museum, 16 January 2008) {January, 2008}
• Scotland. 'Historical maps in ScotlandsPlaces: new collaborative geographic retrieval and presentation options for the National Library of Scotland's maps' (illustrated article by Christopher Fleet, in: e-Perimetron, 6:4 (2011), pp.230-43) {December, 2011}
• 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 scans with a brief accompanying note; National Library of Scotland) {January, 2008}
• Scotland. ‘Lanarkshire Land-Surveyors: Neil McVicar - provost and surveyor of Rutherglen’ (by John Moore, Cairt 33, July 2018, pp. 6-7) {July, 2018}
• Scotland. '"Locating trees in the Caledonian forest": A critical assessment of methods for presenting series mapping over the web' (pdf article by Chris Fleet, in: e-Perimetron, 1:2 (Spring 2006), pp. 99-112) {November, 2006}
• Scotland. 'Maps and Plans' (a brief guide to resources; see also a case-study using maps relating to Rosal, Strath Naver - Scotland's Rural Past) {December, 2009}
• 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. 'Maps. Subject Info' (a series of 'brief guides to early maps of Scotland', with links to the varied resources, both text and images, on the NLS site: 'Early maps of Scotland before 1850', 'Early Ordnance Survey maps of Scotland, 1840s-1940s', 'Ordnance Survey digital maps of the United Kingdom, 1998- ', 'Using maps as historical sources', 'Sources on early Scottish maps', 'Project Pont', 'Scottish Maps Forum' - National Library of Scotland) {February, 2010}
• Scotland. Map samplers. ‘March’s Map of the Month: A map of Scotland. [Stitched by] Margaret Montgomery, circa 1800’ (an illustrated note on embroidered maps by Jenny Parkerson, 1 March 2017) {August, 2020}
• Scotland. 'Military Maps of Scotland (18th century)' (click on 'Further Information' for background text - National Library of Scotland) {January, 2006}
• 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. The National Library of Scotland’s blog, Category: Maps (apparently started in 2009) {January, 2020}
• Scotland. ‘Old Ways and New Roads – Bridging the River Tay at Kenmore. Putting the story together with the help of maps’ (an illustrated article by Christopher Dingwall , Cairt 38 (January 2021) : 6-8) {January, 2021}
• ’Ordnance Survey Abbreviations’ (compiled by Richard Oliver – National Library of Scotland) {August, 2023}
• Scotland. ‘Ordnance Survey Books of Reference - 25 inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1855-1882’ (also known as ‘Area Books’ these record acreages and land use – National Library of Scotland) {May, 2018}
• Scotland. ‘Ordnance Survey Books of Reference for Scotland, 1859-1882’ (‘Area Books, recording acreages and land use) {July, 2018}
• Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882. A Scottish paper landscape' (an illustrated, hyperlinked essay by Christopher Fleet and Charles W J Withers, including a Bibliography, detailed notes on the relevant Parliamentary Papers, and a table providing 'Survey and revision dates for county series mapping, 1843-1943') {November, 2008}
• Scotland. 'Ordnance Survey Maps - 25 inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1855-1882' (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'; accompanying scans of the 13,045 sheets (at 1:2,500) - National Library of Scotland) {June, 2009}
• Scotland. ‘Ordnance Survey - see also above under Great Britain
• Scotland. Pont. 'Distributing images and information over the Web - a case study of the Pont manuscript maps' (Chris Fleet in LIBER Quarterly 10,4 (2000)) {February, 2003}
• Scotland. Pont. 'History of the Maps' (online articles by Chris Fleet, Andrew Grout and Bob Henery) {July, 2012}
• Scotland. Pont. ‘New evidence for dating Pont maps – Pont 6 and the Battle of Glenlivet’ (Dàibhidh Grannd in Cairt pp. 6-7) {July, 2017}
• Scotland. Pont. 'Timothy Pont's mapping of Scotland in the late 16th century' (a comprehensive examination and footnoted analysis of the maps, featuring a new transcription of nearly 100 pages of handwritten geographic information from the 'Topographical Notices of Scotland', biographical information, notes on the maps' research value on themes such as towns, place-names and architecture, assistance with handwriting and symbols, and a detailed bibliography. All this is tied in to high resolution images of all 77 maps and selected highlights - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2001; amended July, 2003}
• Scotland. Renfrewshire. 'The Early Cartography of Renfrewshire to 1864' (John N Moore, 2000 - a full-scale carto-bibliography)
• Scotland. Research Guides (a growing collection, on a range of subjects – National Library of Scotland) {February, 2022}
• Scotland. ’Re-using Map Datasets (mostly covering Scotland - National Library of Scotland) {September, 2022}
• Scotland. Roy Military Survey of Scotland, 1747-1755: Gazetteer (a collective effort transcribed over 30,000 names in a joint effort by the British Library and the National Library of Scotland) {September, 2022}
• Scotland. 'Roy Military Survey of Scotland, 1747-1755' (essays accompanying the complete, searchable scan of the original MS maps from the British Library: 'Background to the Survey and William Roy', 'Scope of the Survey and Field survey methods', 'Cartographic style and content', 'Map originals, images and bibliography' - National Library of Scotland) {May, 2007}
• Scotland. 'Roy Military Survey map of Scotland (1747-1755): mosaicing, geo-referencing, and web delivery' (illustrated pdf article by Christopher Fleet and Kimberly C. Kowal, in: e-Perimetron, 2:4 (Autumn, 2007), pp. 194-208) {June, 2008}
• Scotland. 'Roy's Roads. Roads of the Military Survey of Scotland, 1747' (David Simpson) {July, 2013}
• Scotland. Scottish History Society (see p.2 of Cairt for a brief list of map-related articles among the Society’s publications) {July, 2017}
• 'ScotlandsPlaces: Make the Connections' (enabling a joint search across selected materials, including maps and documents from the National Archives of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland) {February, 2011}
• Scotland. ‘The Stevenson Maps and Plans of Scotland, 1660 - 1940’ (an interface to over 2000 plans of projects in Scotland carried out by the Stevenson family, late 18th-mid-20th century; the plans are in the process of being scanned - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2019}
• 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) {August, 2019}
• Scotland. Towns. 'Ordnance Survey historic town plans of Scotland (1847-1895): Geo-referencing and web delivery with ArcIMS and OpenLayers' (the background to the section on the National Library of Scotland's website; illustrated pdf article by Daniel Henrie, in: e-Perimetron, 4:2 (2009), pp. 73-85) {June, 2009}
• Scotland - ‘Dumfries Archival Mapping Project (DAMP)’ (a 5-minute Youtube introduction){February, 2022}
• Scotland - Edinburgh. 'The Barker Panorama (Old Edinburgh by Robert Barker)' (images of the panorama begun in 1796 and explanatory text about panoramas in general - Edinburgh Virtual Environment Centre) {July, 2002}
• Scotland - Orkney. 'A history of Orkney maps' (considering 40 maps and charts (1583-1883); a research site with an original methodology, using overlays and error diagrams (for 35 locations) to arrive at 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}

Wales

• Wales. ‘Cataloguing a large collection of manuscript maps; a system developed at the National Library of Wales’ (Robert Davies and Donald Moore in LIBER Bulletin 22 (1982)) {April, 2007}
• * Wales. Civilizing Wales: Cymbeline, Roads and the landscapes of early modern Britain (Garrett Sullivan, from Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998))
• Wales. ‘Cynefin: the Tithe Maps of Wales / Mapiau Degwm Cymru‘ (a project to ‘to repair and digitise around 1,200 tithe maps and transcribe over 30,000 pages of index documents by September 2016’) {May, 2016}
• Wales. ‘Deep Mapping Estate Archives: The List of Historic Place Names of Wales’ (a blog posting ‘Deep Mapping’) {August, 2023}
• Wales. 'Lewis Morris and William Morris' Sea Charts' (commentary on the charts of the Welsh coast: 25 from Lewis Morris (1748) and 32 from William Morris (1801) - National Library of Wales) {May, 2002}
• Wales. Llwyd. ‘Inventor of Britain: The Complete Works of Humphrey Llwyd’ (a collaborative research project including an interactive digital resource which ‘allows users to explore Llwyd's Cambriae Typus map of Wales and the features that it shows’{June, 2021}
• Wales. 'Manorial Documents Register' (the MDR 'identifies the nature and location of manorial records', so far covering parts of England and all of Wales; selecting 'Advanced Search' and choosing Map from 'Type of Document' produced 803 entries, which can be searched for in various ways - The National Archives) {November, 2006}
• Wales. ‘Maps’ (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. A Map of Greater Cambria (by Philip Schwyzer, from Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998)).
• Wales. 'The National Library of Wales Blog' (posts about various early Welsh maps by Huw Thomas, Map Librarian, starting in July 2010) {August, 2010}
• Wales. Ordnance Survey, see under Great Britain
• Wales. Place names. ‘List of Historic Place Names of Wales’ (names can be searched for individually or for a location) {May, 2017}
• Wales. Tithe maps. ‘Places of Wales. Discover the tithe maps of Wales’ (‘search and browse over 300,000 entries from the tithe maps of Wales and accompanying apportionment documents using original and present-day maps’) {July, 2017}
• Wales - Glamorgan. 'The Glamorgan Record Office' (Patricia Moore in LIBER Bulletin 22 (1982)) {April, 2006}
• Wales - Pembrokeshire. 'The Integration and Analysis of Historical and Environmental Data using a Geographical Information System: A case study of Landownership as a Factor in Mid-Nineteenth Century Agricultural Productivity at Newport, Pembrokeshire' (by Alastair Pearson and Peter Collier, 2001) {July, 2007}
• Wales - see also under England & Wales above

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