I would think that the book is the point of interest here assuming it is the “Coast to Coast Walk” by Alfred Wainwright. I understand that copies of his ...
The use of sienna on roads was originally intended to show the 'direction of the roads' (OS Report 1855-6, published 1857). Practically every path and road was...
Yolande Hodson
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Mar 1, 2005 6:16 pm
1764
On a similar note, I have read that good quality metalled public roads were represented for a period by one or both sides of the road being marked with a bold...
I have often wondered just how the sheetlines of the later OS one inch map series, and indeed the Landranger series, were devised. I have in idle moments...
The bold edge, known as the shaded line, was commonly applied to turnpike roads or main roads from early times, certainly from the eighteenth century. It was...
Yolande Hodson
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Mar 2, 2005 9:44 am
1768
I have a 1/4 sheet of the Ravenglass area at 1" to Mile. There is no legend, sheet number or watermark. Hills are shown by hachuring and spot Trig.Heights, but...
Forbes Robertson
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Mar 4, 2005 7:02 pm
1769
The summary lists have been updated and may be found at _http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm_ (http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm) as usual. Lez...
Dear Sirs, Something of a long shot, but here goes! I have arrived at this location via the good offices of Chris Bartlett (member of the CCS) and Rob Wheeler...
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:44:41 -0000 Yolande Hodson <y.hodson@...> ... confined to first class (turnpike or main) roads... Yes, generally, but there are...
Richard Oliver
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Mar 7, 2005 11:21 am
1772
I suspect that I may be better qualified than some to answer this, as I have both sought out draft sheet line arrangements in OS files in the National...
Richard Oliver
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Mar 7, 2005 11:54 am
1773
Difficult to say from your description, but as Old Series and NS-1-H amount to the same thing you would be safe, I think, in saying 'NS-1-H'. R.O. On Fri, 4...
Richard Oliver
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Mar 7, 2005 12:32 pm
1774
On Monday, March 07, 2005 11:19 AM Richard Oliver wrote ... roads to enable to OS, and everyone else, to be checked up on" - which is a great pity because one...
Hi, I have a copy of the OS New Popular Edition One-Inch of England and Wales, Sheet 116 ("Dolgelley"), it is the full 1918 revision first published with later...
Hi Keith, An interesting quest. Presuming you have tried traces on the net, I am sorry I cannot think of any other routes. Good Luck, Forbes. ... From:...
Forbes Robertson
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Mar 7, 2005 10:40 pm
1777
Answer is slightly complicated! In short: (1) The grid recomnmended by the Davidson Committee in 1938 was the principle of a metric grid. They didn't make...
Richard Oliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Mar 8, 2005 9:58 am
1778
Note that the term 'first class' does not imply that they were exclusively turnpike roads. Main roads were not 'main' in the formal sense in the early ...
Yolande Hodson
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Mar 8, 2005 4:26 pm
1779
Richard, Many many thanks for this. I will get hold of the back issue of Sheetlines you mention from CCS for the detail. James ... From: Richard Oliver To:...
This is a quick off the cuff reply. The painting is likely to be in private hands. Several old OS officers had Willis's work, including Archie Clough (Deputy...
Yolande Hodson
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Mar 9, 2005 7:01 am
1781
A little off-subject, but I had the pleasure of meeting the author of the photograph of Keiss Castle, nr. John o'Groats, Scotland, John Corbet (if memory...
A week or so back, I was in the Wilts County Record Office at Trowbridge. Part of the reason for my visit was to look through records of events during the war....
... perhaps they are the Militery Grid Reference's try the coordinate converter at: http://www.fielden9.freeserve.co.uk/mapcol/cconv/ which i think can convert...
My thanks to Richard for his observations on sheet line arrangements. I too have noticed that certain sheet sizes seem to work much better than others. I've...
I doubt the Geological Survey will be in much of a hurry to change, as they index photos and other supporting material according to the present sheet lines,...
rroliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Mar 11, 2005 10:19 pm
1786
Not an OS question but one related to time and calendars. Someone here may be able to help. Puzzler: Why, 3 days before Spring, when we are supposed to have12...
iain taylor
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Mar 18, 2005 6:16 pm
1787
Halifax NS is 63.5 degrees West but uses a time zone, GMT - 4 hours, appropriate to 60 degrees West. Hence, noon at Halifax, when the sun is directly...
I have had just finished reading Richard Oliver's excellent article on "The Evolution of the Ordnance Survey National Grid" published in Sheetlines 43 (August...
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:20:09 -0000 jamesdargie ... I think that it was designed so as to place Great Britain as centrally as possible in the 'parent' 2500 km...
Richard Oliver
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Mar 21, 2005 11:05 am
1790
Can anyone point me in the direction of a listing of the individual sheets at this scale, i.e a record of which sheet numbers were actually published, rather...
Richard, The only sheet-by-sheet listings are indeed those in the late 19th and early 20th century catalogues. I do have some notes on A FEW British Library...
