National Library of Scotland / Wilbourn Associates - Georeferenced Maps Project
The National Library of Scotland and Wilbourn Associates are very pleased to be working together on a project to scan and make available sets of historical maps as georeferenced layers.
The following main map series are available so far:
Ordnance Survey, Scotland, One-Inch to the Mile, 2nd edition, 1885-1900
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This medium-scale map series provides an excellent regional overview of the late 19th century landscape, and illustrates features such as woodland, roads, railways, and larger settlements and farms. The series covered Scotland in 131 sheets, finely engraved on copper plates. A zoomable map interface to the maps, also allows searching by counties, parishes, and place names.
Ordnance Survey, Scotland, One-Inch to the Mile, Popular edition (with National Grid), 1945-48
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This medium-scale map series provides an excellent regional overview of the post-War landscape, and illustrates features such as woodland, roads, railways, and larger settlements and farms. The series covered Scotland in 90 sheets, and was fully coloured. A zoomable map interface to the maps, also allows searching by counties, parishes, and place names.
Ordnance Survey, Great Britain, One-Inch to the mile, Seventh Series, 1952-1961
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This medium-scale map series provides an excellent regional overview of the 1950s landscape, and illustrates features such as woodland, roads, railways, and larger settlements and farms. It is the most-recent OS one-inch series that is out-of-copyright. The series covered Great Britain in 190 sheets, and was fully coloured. A zoomable map interface to the maps, also allows searching by counties, parishes, and place names.
Ordnance Survey, Great Britain, 1:25,000, 1937-1961
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This medium-scale map series at "two and a half inch to the mile" provides an excellent regional overview of the 1940s and 1950s landscape, and illustrates features such as woodland, roads, railways, field boundaries, settlements and farms. It twice as detailed in scale as the one-inch mapping and is the most-recent OS 1:25,000 series that is out-of-copyright. A zoomable map interface to the maps, also allows searching by counties, parishes, and place names.
Ordnance Survey, Great Britain, Ten Mile to One-Inch Planning Map series, 1944-1960
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This small-scale Planning Map series provides an excellent set of thematic maps, illustrating a wide range of natural and man-made phenomena in the 1940s and 1950s. The thematic maps include Administrative Areas, Coal and Iron, Farming, Geology, Land Classification and Land Utilisation, Limestone, Population Density and Population Change, Railways, Rainfall, and Roads. The Planning Map series was initiated during the 1940s, aiming to form a survey of national life and resources, particularly to support the war effort and post-War reconstruction. A zoomable map interface to the maps, also allows searching by counties, parishes, and place names. Further Information
Ordnance Survey, Scotland, Six-Inch to the mile, 1892-1905
Georeferenced overlay (Mosaic Viewer) | Map sheets (Sheet Viewer)
The Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile (or 1:10,560) County Series is the most comprehensive, topographic mapping of all of Scotland at the turn of the century, recording practically all natural and man-made features in the landscape. The series was revised comprehensively for the whole country at this time. Further Information.
Please email geo@nls.uk for further information, or to provide general comments / feedback