Maps and plans : for the local historian and collector : a guide to types of maps of the British Isles produced before 1914 valuable to local and other historians and mostly available to collectors

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Maps and plans : for the local historian and collector : a guide to types of maps of the British Isles produced before 1914 valuable to local and other historians and mostly available to collectors

David Smith

B.T. Batsford, 1988

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Bibliography: p. 221-225

Includes index

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Description

Estate maps, Parliamentary plans, Ordnance Survey maps and many other types of maps and plans are here discussed in detail with illustrations of work by Beighton, Fowler, Lizars, Rocque and Speed. The bibliography includes separate material for each chapter and a county-by county section. The book provides a resource for the historian and collector of every type of British map.

Table of Contents

  • Sources
  • decoration
  • parliamentary deposited plans and associated documents
  • Estate plans
  • enclosure plans
  • tithe plans
  • regional maps
  • drainage maps
  • county maps
  • maps of county divisions
  • military maps
  • ordnance survey maps
  • transport and communications maps
  • marine charts
  • settlement plans
  • specialized plans
  • other parish plans London and other ward plans
  • industrial maps
  • themes and thematic maps.

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