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Recent forays at work (National Library of Scotland) have started to take us south of the border. Thought people here might be interested in a couple of online historical mapping resources we recently added since they cover England and Wales in detail. Maps always seem to get a warm response from fellow cyclists, so if you fancy plotting your cycle routes along historical lines now's you chance!
Ordnance Survey: Large Scale Town Plan of London, 1893-5
Georeferenced overlay of London. These maps were produced in the 1890s at the unprecedentedly large scale of 1:1056. The detail is exceptional to zoom in on and compare to the modern mapping datasets they're displayed against.
OS Six-Inch to the Mile - England and Wales, 1842-1952
These are not georeferenced, but nearly 38,000 maps from this series can be explored online. Basically, it's an interactive geographic index of sheet lines - zoom in on where you're interested in and if you click, it will return all sheets produced for that area. The results appear on the right, when clicked these open the zoomable version of that map.
Hope it's of some enjoyment. And to view it is entirely FREE!