If anybody is interested please do not reply to this message but respond directly to MC Black who is not a member of the ordnancemaps egroup. Pete Stubbs ...
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John Andrews
priory6
Mar 3, 2003 7:54 am
Can anybody tell me which are the best sources of information about the basis and extent of the practice of `shading' roads, i.e. thickening one of the two...
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Yolande Hodson
y.hodson@...
Mar 3, 2003 9:26 am
Please see my paper in the Rights of Way Law Review: 'Roads on OS 1:2500 plans 1884-1912', July 1999, sec.9.3, pp.107-116. This deals entirely with this...
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John Andrews
priory6
Mar 3, 2003 6:45 pm
Many thanks; I should have thought of that ! JA ... From: Yolande Hodson To: ordnancemaps@... Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:24 AM Subject: Re:...
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John Andrews
priory6
Mar 11, 2003 6:26 pm
I have been trying, with the assistance of a variety of OS maps, to pinpoint the approximate date of some changes of field boundaries. I noted firstly that the...
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rroliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Mar 12, 2003 8:56 am
... the approximate date of some changes of field boundaries.It seems that I can only say at present that they took place between 1903 and 1980 - a period of ...
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Colin Adlam
cadlamtrfherts
Mar 12, 2003 5:32 pm
"So far as OS maps go, the answer would seem to be 'yes'. However, the RAF flew complete air photo cover of Britain in about 1945-7," My local Council (Herts.)...
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John Andrews
priory6
Mar 13, 2003 7:35 am
Thanks for the tip. John Andrews ... From: rroliver To: ordnancemaps@... Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 8:55 AM Subject: RE: [ordnancemaps]...
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rybeacham
Mar 14, 2003 7:26 am
A news item concerning 3-D virtual maps for use on hand-held palm computers appears on this morning's Daily Telegraph website. See: ...
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Al Magary
almagary2
Mar 14, 2003 8:06 am
... List members might want to know about a free web service TinyURL that makes triple-lined URLs like the one above into, well, tiny URLs. Copy from the...
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Lez4Lynne@...
lez_watson
Mar 14, 2003 8:00 pm
The Landranger and Explorer maps lists have been revised, and are re-posted at <A...
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Peter Stubbs
pennocrucium
Mar 19, 2003 9:11 pm
Harry Margary - publishers have just launched a web site at http://www.harrymargary.com Pete Stubbs...
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Paul Smith <psmith...
historian31
Mar 24, 2003 9:21 pm
Dear All, I have just joined this group and probably ought to have done so long ago, in that I have been collecting and studying OS maps since I was 13, and...
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Leslie V Watson <L...
lez_watson
Mar 25, 2003 8:34 am
Welcome to the gang, Paul. Happy hunting Lez Watson...
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Alan Bowring
alan.bowring@...
Mar 25, 2003 9:01 am
New group member Paul Smith writes about his 1:25 000 map collection: Welcome to 'Ordnancemaps' Paul - there are many others in the discussion group who share...
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Kent, John G
calistojk
Mar 25, 2003 9:55 am
... It would indeed be very sad to see the departure parish boundaries. They are centuries old and a hint to Saxon, and even Roman, features. I can't say that...
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Leslie V Watson <L...
lez_watson
Mar 25, 2003 11:17 am
... I'm having a senior moment again. I checked your GR in streetmap.co.uk and it took me to Colchester! I though you were John of Kent, but I see you're...
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Leslie V Watson <L...
lez_watson
Mar 25, 2003 11:25 am
... Something a bit more technical than Close's "Early Years of the OS". The recent books about the Indian and French arcs were interesting reading and gave a...
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Dr. Iain C. Taylor
mapman@...
Mar 25, 2003 3:22 pm
I have a large collection of Pathfinders - mainly of Scotland - which I am anxious to place. If you are a collector please contact me off-line to discuss. ...
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Chris Higley <edit...
scocjh
Mar 25, 2003 8:41 pm
Sheetlines 66, the April issue, is now at the printers and should reach Charles Close Society members around 9 April. Highlights of this issue include, in...
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Jack Kirby
jdk653
Mar 25, 2003 8:42 pm
The points about parish boundaries are interesting, and I too would be sorry to see them go, but personally I would be cautious about using parish boundaries...
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PAUL SMITH
historian31
Mar 25, 2003 9:03 pm
Hi Alan, Can I thank both you and the others for welcoming me! _ Thank you all! The loss of Parish Boundaries is very serious in my view. I use my maps a lot...
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PAUL SMITH
historian31
Mar 25, 2003 9:09 pm
Tracing parish boundaries is very interesting! I have the dilemma sometimes of whether to use a current boundary or use the original. In my own parish in West...
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Alan Bowring
alan.bowring@...
Mar 26, 2003 12:42 pm
Thanks to Paul and to Jack for their musings on the topic of parish boundaries. I do agree with the notion that boundary research provides an excuse to buy...
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Dave Shirt <dshirt...
dshirt07
Mar 26, 2003 1:10 pm
It's worth having a look at `English River-names' by Ekwall, published by OUP in 1928 and reprinted in 1968. Unfortunately it's difficult to get hold of these...
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Tom Baldwin
castagnerede
Mar 26, 2003 4:09 pm
... Go to: http://tinyurl.com/873k There you'll find seven copies for sale, at prices from $90 to $344(!). Three are in the UK. three in the U.S. and one in...
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Yolande Hodson
y.hodson@...
Mar 26, 2003 5:59 pm
... From: Yolande Hodson To: ordnancemaps@... Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 5:52 PM Subject: Parish boundaries I note the recent chat about parish...
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rroliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Mar 27, 2003 6:47 pm
Yolande Hodson wrote: "OS currently has a rather brilliant Cartographic Design Manager (Rick Morris) who has managed to devise new symbols for the parish ...
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PAUL SMITH
historian31
Mar 27, 2003 8:31 pm
Hi, This is very interesting, in terms of the history of the First Series. I gather that you are in Devon - well that's useful, because (I'm in West Sussex in...
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roger hellyer
roger.hellyer@...
Mar 28, 2003 9:19 am
Paul What you have is one of eleven sheets in the Plymouth-Dartmoor area published in 1956 or so, in the days when the OS still called the 1:25,000 First...
