Bearman Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 This old map 1880-1913 opens up in Tavistock but you can open it by sliding your fingers to anywhere in Britain. I found it fascinating. http://www.archiuk.com/cgi-bin/build_nls_historic_map.pl?search_location=%2C+Tavistock%2C+Devon&latitude=50.545955&longitude=-4.146702&password=freesearch%40freesearch.com&fbclid=IwAR2pXe0zn6I_ivEAIkxeFXLI0V8KkqPA6hDzK6V2ERZixU5K2c62J58ee9M Ron Banks Midlands Hurricanes and Barrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmduck Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 That's where my ancestors came from but they were already in OZ by 1850. I imagine their old hovel would have been converted into a pig sty by the time that map was drawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 Looked up a few places, including where I live now. No building there, but the old map shows the dotted outlines of the side streets where the house I'm in would shortly be built. Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. Ralph Waldo Emerson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hallucinating Goose Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 Wow that is fascinating, can't stop looking at it, thanks for posting that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 Slightly peeved that about a third of the village where my dad lives is off the edge of the old map. Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. Ralph Waldo Emerson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ullman Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 I love an old map and that is absolutely brilliant. Many thanks for posting. "I'm from a fishing family. Trawlermen are like pirates with biscuits." - Lucy Beaumont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonM Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 You might like this website- you can choose from a large set of old maps, and do things like overlay them with modern maps and so on. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=53.00010&lon=-1.17170&layers=11&b=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 43 minutes ago, JonM said: You might like this website- you can choose from a large set of old maps, and do things like overlay them with modern maps and so on. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=53.00010&lon=-1.17170&layers=11&b=1 That's my weekend's plans gone to pot, then. So many toys to play with on that site! Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. Ralph Waldo Emerson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonM Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 3 hours ago, Futtocks said: That's my weekend's plans gone to pot, then. So many toys to play with on that site! I have a number of other map websites for wasting days with - that's only one of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleep1673 Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 About 15 years ago, I was wandering around the market at Covent Garden, and found a print of a map of Manchester & Salford dated 1895 which I framed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingerjon Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 On 03/06/2021 at 13:05, Futtocks said: Looked up a few places, including where I live now. No building there, but the old map shows the dotted outlines of the side streets where the house I'm in would shortly be built. Quite interesting on one of the maps quite how much of around here is built by the 1880s. But what is now a total back road (and private, love running there to annoy the natives) is given prominence as a main thoroughfare and what is now the main road isn't there but, like yours, the outline of the tracks is there - the road appears to have been built on what was already emerging as a natural divider. Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. (Terry Pratchett) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trojan Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 I have a couple of old maps of the West Riding. The area around Clitheroe was all Yorkshire. Clitheroe is like an isthmus surrounded on three sides by the West Riding. Clitheroe BTW is spelled Clederoe on the map. “Few thought him even a starter.There were many who thought themselves smarter. But he ended PM, CH and OM. An Earl and a Knight of the Garter.” Clement Attlee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 9 minutes ago, Trojan said: I have a couple of old maps of the West Riding. The area around Clitheroe was all Yorkshire. Clitheroe is like an isthmus surrounded on three sides by the West Riding. Clitheroe BTW is spelled Clederoe on the map. As soon as the "comedy" show The Clitheroe Kid first broadcast, the people of Yorkshire were more than happy to disown the town. Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. Ralph Waldo Emerson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonM Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 9 hours ago, Trojan said: I have a couple of old maps of the West Riding. The area around Clitheroe was all Yorkshire. Clitheroe is like an isthmus surrounded on three sides by the West Riding. Clitheroe BTW is spelled Clederoe on the map. There were some odd things in the old counties - Lancashire north of the sands being one, the two parts of Flintshire being completely separated from each other by Denbighshire was another. Before 1844, there were hundreds of exclaves round the country - villages or country houses that were in one county but surrounded by another. Even today, Newmarket is in Suffolk, but almost entirely surrounded by Cambridgeshire. It cannot be reached by any right of way from the rest of Suffolk without passing through Cambs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleep1673 Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 On 05/06/2021 at 06:49, Bleep1673 said: About 15 years ago, I was wandering around the market at Covent Garden, and found a print of a map of Manchester & Salford dated 1895 which I framed. It does show a race course just north of the Salford docks, which I presume to be New Barnes, where the original Salford Rugby Club were based? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Frightful Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Slightly disappointed that the Google Earth Street View doesn't appear to work on it though. Now that would have been interesting. Hull FC....The Sons of God... (Well, we are about to be crucified on Good Friday) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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