ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS: A CONCISE GUIDE FOR HISTORIANS

Third Edition, revised, corrected and expanded, Richard Oliver, 2013.

320 pages, hardback.

This fully revised and updated edition, published October 2013,includes a greatly expanded list of towns with their mapping dates, improved data on the early 1:2500 mapping of counties, and further minutiae on ‘points of detail’, as well as an updated bibliography.

Summary of chapters:

1. The development of the Ordnance Survey
2. Ordnance Survey maps as historical sources: some general points
3. Scales and characteristics of Ordnance Survey maps
4. Some Ordnance Survey definitions and terminology
5. Notes on the depiction of detail
6. Ordnance Survey mapping of towns
7. Ordnance Survey mapping of counties
8. Abbreviations used on Ordnance Survey maps
9. Select bibliography