Ordnance Survey Historical Maps: Town Plan of London / 6inch England & Wales

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!

Bump. The NLS has really excelled itself in its new mapping site.

http://maps.nls.uk/site-map.html

It's by far the best source of historic maps that I've seen. Or does anyone know a better site?

Well done, cheesedisease and colleagues.

Amazing stuff, I could lose myself for hours in this. Many thanks for posting

I could lose myself for hours in this

Not very good maps then?

He walked into that one.

Walked, stumbled, what's a bit of flailing in the dark between friends?

Thank you for this, hours of enjoyment!
If you want to access current OS mapping, try these:
http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm

http://maps.the-hug.net/

I'm fortunate enough to still be a student so have access to Edina Digimaps, but the NLS maps are still awesome. Thanks.

I have recently been researching my family history, and have found this. Only Manchester, but some fantastic stuff for map-nerds (cartophiles?) like me...http://enriqueta.man.ac.uk/luna/servlet/maps2~1~1

awesome.

I suppose this could go here--an article about a new on-line facility made by the LSE to host Booth's London poverty (and wealth) maps:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/30/what-victorian-era-poverty-maps-tell-us-about-london-today

Seen this through a bump from somewhere else, loving the old maps with overlays. Gives a whole new perspective to 'I remember when this was all just fields', which I actually caught myself saying for real the other day.