Historic Ordnance Survey Maps Online Free

Discover the past of england on historical maps. Maps produced by the os are at the heart of the library’s collection of modern printed mapping. Free online ordnance survey map showing uk public footpaths, cycle paths, bridleways and other rights of way;

Using gb’s most detailed leisure mapping, os maps lets you plan adventures, discover new places, and record, share and follow routes. In contrast to os street view, it tends to identify public buildings with generic labels such as education facility. Very detailed and comprehensive old maps covering all of england, scotland and wales from the late 1500s to the 1950s.

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The national library participated in a major digitisation project by the ordnance survey of ireland. When the two organisations were merged in 1984, all international aerial photographs, maps, and survey data were amalgamated into one working collection. In libraries around the world. The name reflects the original military purpose of the organisation (see ordnance and surveying) in mapping britain during the napoleonic.