Bespoke orders or other queries for copies of items not on our website can still be sent to maps@nls.uk. [5] Its surface is 16 metres (52 feet) above sea level. We have also changed the footer to mirror the main Library website, grouping the most useful information pages into clearer lists. The maps can also be searched using a zoomable map of Scotland, a modern street gazetteer, and by National Grid Reference. We now have over 160 layers of georeferenced mapping in our Explore Georeferenced Maps viewer and it is often useful to compare different scales and dates of this mapping on screen at the same time. That same year, the de Havilland Comet also flew in to the museum,[4] as did the Avro Vulcan in 1984. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere, though its description varies from one account to the next. [citation needed]. Later anglicised names include Wulfrichford, Wolderfirth, Wolverflete and the surviving name Olderfleet. These maps are excellent for providing an overview of the rural landscape, and changes over time can now be viewed more comprehensively. Published in 1662-5, its 594 maps and 3,368 pages of texts collectively presented the state of geographic knowledge of the world in the mid 17th century. In the 1930s and 1940s, the original Ordnance Survey's One-Inch to the Mile Popular edition mapping of 1921-30 was re-issued with selective updates from revisions made primarily in the 1930s. Reserved matters are subdivided into two categories: General reservations and specific reservations. The set consists of a title sheet and 15 map sheets at a scale of one inch to the mile, and are supplemented with a single-sheet index map at a scale of five miles to the inch. [18] This event marked a major step in cementing the right to Ulster Unionist self-determination, with the recognition of such a right ultimately leading to the creation of Northern Ireland. We have added an additional set of 73 topographic maps covering part of southern India, to provide complete coverage of the River Kavery, and everywhere south of the 12th parallel north. 24 August 1980: Rodney McCormick a Catholic, was shot dead by the, 11 July 2000: Andrew Cairns a UVF member, was killed by members of the UDA. These are the earliest OS maps to comprehensively show house numbers, and they also show parcel numbers (to uniquely reference all land parcels or areas) and their related acreages. The majority of these plans relate to harbour works in coastal towns, but there are significant numbers of maps too relating to bridges, canals, railways, and river engineering. Its surface is 16 metres (52 feet) above sea level. Topographic detail was selectively redrawn from the Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile maps of the 1920s. The following year a Hawker Sea Hawk, de Havilland Sea Vampire and de Havilland Sea Venom were received from RNAS Lossiemouth. [42], A number of shops can be found along Larne Main Street, Dunluce Street, Laharna Retail Park, and large supermarkets off the Harbour Highway near the harbour. The special series maps include some of the very attractive Ordnance Survey One-Inch to the mile Tourist Series, special Administrative District Maps of Glasgow, as well as geological and soil maps. These were researched and published by the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in Aberdeen, forming a set of strikingly attractive coloured maps categorising and portraying soil type, using Ordnance Survey one-inch to the mile base mapping. In 1315, Edward the Bruce of Scotland (brother of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland) landed at Larne with his 6000 strong army en route to conquer Ireland, where Olderfleet Castle was of strategic importance. This viewer allows a selection of boundaries traced from maps of Edinburgh to be interactively explored. Many of these maps are folded, fragile or from special collections, that have only recently been possible to scan. These maps are the most detailed topographic mapping covering England and Wales from the 1840s to the 1950s. It is an artificial island, known as a crannog, and was likely constructed during the Iron Age. During the 19th century, this was Ordnance Survey's preferred method of indicating the height of the ground, printing the Hills edition maps from two separate copper plates. Administrations of regionally devolved areas are omitted. The town suffered a number of Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb attacks during The Troubles, notably including a large car bomb at the King's Arms hotel[19] in 1980 that caused damage to the main shopping areas, for which the IRA claimed responsibility. Read further information about the Admiralty charts. The layers include coverage of Great Britain at scales of six-inch to the mile or 1:10,560, medium-scale mapping at 1:25,000 and 1:63,360, as well as London at 1:1,056 scale. Most of these medium-scale maps, primarily at the half-inch or quarter-inch to the mile scales, are useful for giving a regional overview of the landscape, and showing the latest travel routes by road, rail and steamer. In the 13th Century the Scots Bissett family built Olderfleet Castle at Curran Point. We are very grateful to Sutherland Estates for allowing us to put these maps online. Mgarr port, the point of arrival on Gozo Island from Malta, 'Check in early': Ryanair issues warning for passengers travelling this week, Travelling sustainably isnt enough: Heres why its time to give back to the places we visit, The Highlands, lochs and epic landscapes: Scotlands best train routes to take it all in, France, Greece, Spain? There is also a restored parachute packing building, called "The Parachute Store". This surprise attack drove the garrison to flee the town, at which point the rebel force marched off to join up with McCracken and fight in the Battle of Antrim.[17]. to Westminster:[19]. We have updated our maps website design to improve navigation and usability. Most relate to particular landed estates, including Cadell of Grange in West Lothian, Gartmore in Stirlingshire, Johnston of Coubister in Orkney, Lynedoch in Perthshire, Minto in Roxburghshire, and Pitfirrane in Fife, with maps deposited as part of larger written collections held in our Manuscripts Department. The six-inch to the mile scale is the most detailed that covered the whole of Scotland, covering the country in 2,123 sheets. They added categories of roads, including drove roads, steamer routes, and rights of way that were often not shown on Ordnance Survey maps. 3). The series is made up of 17,466 map sheets, and all were revised from 1892-1907. Larne is 25 miles from the Scottish mainland, with views across the North Channel towards the Mull of Kintyre, Rhins of Galloway, Islay and Paps of Jura often visible from the Larne area this proximity to Scotland has had a defining influence on Larne's history and culture. This layer currently just covers counties in south-east England, but will expand geographically as scanning continues. Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of Scotland form the earliest comprehensive topographic mapping of Scotland by Ordnance Survey. Before 2017, a list of matters was explicitly devolved to the then known National Assembly for Wales and any matter not listed in the Act was implicitly reserved to Westminster. The maps can be viewed using a clickable map and as an ordered list. This new web resource shows the locations and details of over 9,000 mills in Scotland in the 19th century. James Robertson was born on the island of Yell in Shetland, and emigrated to Jamaica where he owned a sugar plantation and worked as a surveyor. Loch Ness is best known for claimed sightings of the cryptozoological Loch Ness Monster, also known affectionately as "Nessie" (Scottish Gaelic: Niseag). The town is within the small parish of the same name. The same year the museum acquired models of the Wright Model A and Blriot XI. We have added 152,332 records for OS County Maps of England and Wales to our OS sheet records viewer. Are you interested in looking into the history of a house or building? The Special Emergency Edition, 1938-39 was a rapid revision of the Ordnance Survey's Six-Inch to the mile maps for Air Raid Precaution purposes. In Wales, a list of reserved matters is explicitly listed under the provisions of the Wales Act 2017. You can search for OS air photo mosaics using a zoomable map of Scotland and by place-names. [11] Latharna itself means "descendants of Lathar", with Lathar according to legend being a son of the pre-Christian king gaine Mr. Registered customers can also track the progress of their orders, view previous orders, and contact / address information is saved for easier repeat orders. Some of these expand our coverage of the Ordnance Survey's Ten-mile to the Inch (1:625,000) Planning maps series, initiated in the 1940s, and intended to form a survey of national life and resources. An exception is the Commissioners' flag of the Northern Lighthouse Board, whose old stock lasted so long that its anachronistic design became fixed by tradition. These maps add to the main existing Board of Ordnance and Wade collection military maps from the 18th century, and are drawn from our other manuscript and early printed map collections. The 2011 United Kingdom census recorded Berwick's population as 12,043.. These 6,193 air photo mosaics provide detailed information on the landscape of England and Wales in the 1940s, complementing the Scottish air photo mosaics which we have had online since 2009. This is of huge value for local and family historians, placename researchers, as well as all those interested in the landscape of 18th century Scotland. New geo-referenced satellite image overlays allow historic town plans for Scotland to be directly compared with modern Google Maps and Virtual Earth satellite and map layers. (The rest of the island became independent as what is now the Republic of Ireland.). 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A range of both old and modern mapping layers provides the user with a customisable backdrop to selecting areas of interest, and keyword searching is provided by placename and National Grid Reference, alongside browsable gazetteers of counties and their parishes. Glamping. 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They can be: These air photographs provide detailed information on the landscape of post-war Scotland, as well as providing a fascinating portrayal of urban topography and land-use. We have made available the transcriptions dataset for onward re-use, including machine-learning. You can query and filter the mill records by name, mill type, date, and related features, as well as compare distributions of mills in a split-screen viewer. The maps are immensely valuable for local and family history, allowing most features in the landscape to be shown. This newly added one-inch 2nd edition (Hills), 1885-1903 series complements our existing Ordnance Survey one-inch 2nd edition, 1885-1900 mapping of Scotland. We have added 100 more charts of Scottish coasts and waters, doubling the number of sea charts we have online. The Land Utilisation Survey was the first systematic and comprehensive depiction of land cover and use in Scotland (1931-1935), under the superintendence of L. Dudley Stamp. They provide good detail of all buildings, streets, railways, industrial premises, parkland, farms, woodland, and rivers. They cover 20% of the British landscape at 1:10,560 scale (showing useful information about fields, farms, roads, railways and woodland), and 16 towns/cities in England and Wales at 1:1,250 scale (with excellent detail of urban topography including buildings and industrial premises). [5] The flag of the new Kingdom was formally chosen on 17 April 1707, two weeks before the Acts of Union of 1707 were to take effect. Lighthouses Windmills. It took her 31 hours and 27 minutes to accomplish this feat. The area around County Antrim itself, however, was not part of the official 17th century Plantation; instead many Scottish settlers arrived in the area through private settlement in the 17th century (as they had also been doing for centuries before). These include: Northern Ireland has parity with Great Britain in three areas: Policy in these areas is technically devolved but, in practice, follows policy set by the Westminster Parliament to provide consistency across the United Kingdom. You can use the maps for a range of purposes. Gozo is also a popular find with divers who relish traversing its many caves. We have added 145 new estate plans of Scotland online. The series was produced in two forms, with relief was shown by layer colours as well as by hachures. The Ordnance Survey 25 inch to the mile maps are immensely valuable for local history. The museum holds an annual air show every July, usually on the third Saturday of the month. The new constitutional arrangements quickly failed, and the Assembly was suspended on 30 May 1974 having only passed two Measures. The application now uses OpenLayers, so it is now consistent with our other web-mapping applications, and has several new enhancements. "The Jet Age" includes a stack of engines, showing the development of the jet engine and how this drove the growth of commercial aviation. This set of 85 maps includes all our out-of-copyright OS quarter-inch to the mile (1:253,440/1:250,000) maps showing administrative and Parliamentary Constituency boundaries. There is a display of air-to-air weapons, including an M1918 Savage-Lewis machine gun, a Browning 0.303 inch machine gun, a Hispano-Suiza 20mm cannon, an AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile, and air-to-ground weapons including a flechette, a Target indicator and a Fritz X guided bomb. Don't get it confused with Oronsay which another island situated just west of Jura. These include Wartime Experience held in May and Wheels and Wings, a transport event held in September. Scotland's Outstanding Lighthouses. & W. Emslie, Gall & Inglis, W. & A.K. Hilly ranges bleed into sandy coasts that attract boats of visitors in the summer months. [7] The island was originally 160 feet (49m) by 168 feet (51m) across, but is now smaller as the water level was raised during the construction of the Caledonian Canal in the early nineteenth century. The recording of land use was carried out by volunteers, particularly schoolchildren and students, using Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile field sheets. This is a specific reservation in Scotland and a general reservation in Wales. These include three volumes of estate plans, relating to Caerlaverock in Dumfries-shire (1775-76), Earlstoun in Kirkcudbrightshire and Dumfries-shire (1800-1815), and Dunskey in Wigtownshire (1804). The Protestant rebels from this area (almost entirely Presbyterian) filled Larne and engaged the government forces around 2am on the morning of 7 June. Popular interest and belief in the animal's existence have varied since it was first brought to the world's attention in 1933. By James I of England, King of Scots, Orders in Council, 1606: By the King: Whereas, some differences hath arisen between Our subjects of South and North Britaine travelling by Seas, about the bearing of their Flagges: For the avoiding of all contentions hereafter. Special Offers. You can alter your altitude, tilt and orientation to explore any one of our 600 georeferenced map layers draped over a 3D landscape. The project has included first edition OS 25 inch to the mile maps covering the county, and more detailed OS town plans at 1:500 scale for all the towns in Devon with more than 4,000 people: Barnstaple, Bideford, Brixham, Crediton, Dartmouth, Dawlish, Exeter, Exmouth, Ilfracombe, Newton Abbot, Plymouth, Tavistock, Tiverton, Torquay and Totnes. It recorded many newly discovered Roman remains for the first time. [50], The Friends Goodwill Music Festival occurs in May each year and supports local music. A number of policing and justice powers remain excepted matters and were not devolved. For many of us, going on holiday is about switching off and escaping the hustle and bustle of everyday life. The maps were surveyed primarily to support agricultural improvement and estate management, as well as for the sale of landed estates, and show excellent detail of the rural landscape. The maps are available through a graphic index and on our Estate Maps of Scotland page ordered by county and parish: We have just added 400 new street maps of Scottish towns held within Post Office Directories. The 3D viewer is accessible from the 3D tab in the footer of our Explore Georeferenced Maps viewer. Another significant expansion took place with the donation of much of the British Airways Collection of aircraft in 2006. Douglass first visited Edinburgh in 1846 and these maps take you to the places where Frederick Douglass lived, held meetings and gave speeches during his antislavery campaign in Edinburgh and Scotland, as well as the sites where other black abolitionists gave speeches in Edinburgh. The Outline edition allowed new hand-drawn content to be easily annotated onto the base mapping, and it was printed in grey, rather than black, for this reason, so that the presentation of urban areas would not be too heavy. Our graphic index showing the maps highlights the new maps published in 1971 in orange. It displays sets of Ordnance Survey mapping relating to Scotland, England and Wales, dating from the 1920s to 1940s. The archive can also be searched by keyword, or users can browse a full list of the places, subjects and people featured on the site. that Eilean Muireach may have been a hunting lodge, with Eilean Nan Con the home for the hunting dogs. Hope, J., & Newsinger, J. The Ballymena and Larne Railway was a narrow gauge railway. All the maps use Ordnance Survey topographic mapping as their base. Engaging with the island beyond beaches is no fuss - Formentera is also very easy to bike around. All were commissioned by landowners to plan agricultural improvement, including enclosure, drainage, new roads, and consolidation of farms, as well as mining. These powers were not devolved after the Belfast Agreement. The application uses the open-source Geoserver and Openlayers software. We have put online all of our Ordnance Survey One-Inch Seventh Series maps (896 sheets), covering all of Great Britain, 1952-1970. They include the construction of the Forth & Clyde Canal, actively planned from the 1760s, the Caledonian Canal (1804-1847) and the Union Canal (opened in 1822). Bartholomew. It is a major passenger and freight roll-on roll-off port. 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Although only around 118 GSGS 2748 sheets were published, our holdings are also incomplete, with 21 sheets covering scattered locations, primarily in Scotland. The maps were published by the Survey of India, at the scales of one-inch to the mile (1:63,360) and half-inch to the mile (1:126,720). This resulted in the museum putting their Boeing 707 fuselage section on display from April 2010, with a collection of BOAC crew and passenger artefacts, including a 1960s stewardess uniform. All towns, villages and cultivated rural areas were mapped, comprising over a third of the total land area of Scotland. The collection also includes a range of related printed mapping, including charts , county maps , and Ordnance Survey plans used for The devolution schemes in Scotland and Wales are set up in a similar manner. The map series was produced by the War Office, or Geographical Section, General Staff, and carry their series designation, G.S.G.S. 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