You can search, browse, and purchase (in PDF, sigh) first edition OS maps here: http://www.old-maps.co.uk
You may be able to use this resource creatively: browse to find the maps you want; do screen sumps as required, and get high-res scans from the lib. Alternatively, give Landmark a bell and see if they offer amenable terms for research of your nature. Nonetheless, digitising this corpus of hugely valuable and non-copyrighted work is crying out to be addressed by a decentralized, user-based project. TB On Jan 4, 2008 9:19 PM, Tim Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:50 -0800, Tyler Bell wrote: > > Short summary: The most significant changes happened in 1974. There > > is significant change between the present counties and 1974; less so > > between those leading up to 1974 and the first edition OS maps, but > > still enough to avoid basing research conclusions on. I was crying > > out for this dataset for some placename spatial analysis back in '95; > > I still don't know of a public resource sadly. > > > > -- TB > > > > Thanks Tyler and Barry. The historic counties trust stuff is good. It's > provides a great outline of the development and changes of the county > boundaries, and the confusions about different types of county > boundaries. Pity their historical mapping doesn't yet cover the entire > UK. It seems they're using the OS First edition maps as their primary > source. Are there scanned copies of these available in the public > domain (or otherwise freely distributable)? As far as boundaries are > concerned, I'm not particularly interested in anything after 1888. I'm > trying to tie historical events/places to then current counties. > > Regards, > Tim Bowden > > > > > On Jan 4, 2008 1:29 PM, Barry Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The best source i know of is > > > http://www.historiccountiestrust.co.uk/ > > > > > > doesnt (yet) have all counties. But is working towards it. > > > > > > It would be nice to get a public dataset :) > > > > > > As to changes, I dont think they changed that much - in recent times, > > > but over the years they have changed, the above site should have more > > > about this > > > > > > > > > On 04/01/2008, Tim Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I'm looking for a "reasonably" accurate source of polygon data for the > > > > boundaries of the historical counties of Great Britain. I'm aware of > > > > the Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System but it > > > > seems the data there is only available to academics for academic use. > > > > Are there any other sources that anyone can point me towards? > > > > > > > > As a point of interest, did the county boundaries change much over time? > > > > I know the current LGA county boundaries are in a state of constant > > > > flux, but I'm only really interested in the historic county boundaries. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Tim Bowden > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Geowanking mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Barry > > > > > > - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Geowanking mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Geowanking mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
