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Mapping Resources

This page to mapping sources for England and Wales lists selected published sources including gazetteers, atlases and maps primarily held in the Map Collection of the State Library. The Map Collection holds current mapping of England and Wales and a varied collection of town and city plans of various dates for England and Wales.

Further down the page is a listing of online English and Welsh mapping websites that may also be of assistance.

Atlases and Maps

The following items are available at the Library:

Town and city maps of the British Isles, 1800-1855
The Phillimore atlas and index of parish registers
Catholic parishes in England, Wales and Scotland : an atlas
The county maps of old England
A geographical dictionary of England and Wales
1832
A topographical dictionary of England :
comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, chapelries and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions; illustrated by maps of the different counties and islands; a map of England, showing the principal towns, roads, railways, navigable rivers, and canals; and a plan of London and its environs
1831
4 vols
AA big atlas of town plans
AA motorists' atlas of Great Britain
AA road book of England and Wales : with gazetteer, itineraries, maps and town plans
An atlas of England and Wales : the maps of Christopher Saxton engraved 1574-1579
Bartholomew's revised half-inch map, Great Britain [cartographic material]
Bartholomew's road atlas of Great Britain : fifth-inch to mile
Britannia, 1651-1951
Four maps of Great Britain [atlas]
designed by Matthew Paris about A.D. 1250 : reproduced from three manuscripts in the British Museum and one at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Great Britain. 1:50 000 second series [cartographic material] : Landranger series / made, printed, and published by Ordnance Survey
Mapping sources for family history : England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales
Maps in Tudor England
Miscellaneous maps of the counties of England, Scotland and Wales
New ordnance atlas of the British Isles :
with large-scale plans of towns, and a copious alphabetical index. 1883
Royal Geographical Society Special Collection
Ordnance Survey atlas of England and Wales
Philip's road atlas Britain 2009
Philips' atlas of the British Isles : a series of 61 plates, comprising 51 maps of England and Wales, with complete index of 45,000 names, and 10 supplementary maps of Scotland and Ireland
Printed maps of the British Isles, 1650-1750
Road atlas of England, Scotland and Wales
Saxton's survey of England and Wales with facsimile of Saxton's wall-map of 1583
The atlas of Britain and Northern Ireland
The counties of Britain : a Tudor atlas
The Old series Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales [cartographic material] : scale 1 inch to 1 mile :
a reproduction of the 110 sheets of the survey in early state in 10 [i.e. 8] volumes
The Old Series Ordnance Survey of England and Wales [cartographic material]
The Ordnance Survey national atlas of Great Britain
The survey atlas of England and Wales
Town plans of Britain
Wales : the second part of John Speed's atlas 'The theatre of Great Britain'
Wales in maps

Kew Bridge, 1899

The National Library of Scotland (NLS) has unveiled a HUGE collection of maps that they have digitised and placed online. The maps, covering England and Wales, are historic Ordnance Survey maps that are between 60 and 170 years old and are at a high resolution. The scale is 6-inch-to-the-mile and covers the whole country.

Gazetteers - General

The following items are available at the Library:

Gazetteers - British Isles

The following items are available at the Library:

Gazetteers - England & Wales

The following items are available at the Library:

Websites

Here are a selection of website that may be of interest:

A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001, including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions
Charles Booth Online Archive
Poverty maps of London that show the social and housing situation in London at the turn of the century. The interface compares Charles Booth's maps with modern street mapping
How our Welsh towns and cities have changed
30 fascinating old maps that chart the evolution of Wales over the past 150 years
Images of early maps on the web
The only comprehensive listing of early map image sites for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
Locating London's Past
This website allows you to search a wide body of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London, and to map the results on to a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque's 1746 map.
Map of London 1862 - 1871
Outstanding-quality images of Edward Stanford's Library Map of London and its Suburbs, 1862-1871. Find areas by text or graphic
Maps of London
A number of large-scale, 19th and early 20th c. maps, including some focussing on the London docks, and thematic maps such as for transport and cycling
Old Maps.com
Britain's most comprehensive historical map archive
Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952
The most comprehensive, topographic mapping covering all of England and Wales from the 1840s to the 1950s
Medieval English Towns

English & Welsh Resources for Family Historians: Maps

Mapping Resources

Atlases and Maps

Kew Bridge, 1899

Gazetteers - General

Gazetteers - British Isles

Gazetteers - England & Wales

Websites

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