You can set the sort order of messages? Just click on the link in the date column. Your preferences will be remembered, so you don't have to do it again when you return.
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 ...
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...
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...
Yolande Hodson
y.hodson@...
Mar 3, 2003 9:26 am
882
Many thanks; I should have thought of that ! JA ... From: Yolande Hodson To: ordnancemaps@... Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:24 AM Subject: Re:...
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...
... 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 ...
rroliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Mar 12, 2003 8:56 am
885
"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.)...
... 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...
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...
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...
Alan Bowring
alan.bowring@...
Mar 25, 2003 9:01 am
894
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
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. ...
Dr. Iain C. Taylor
mapman@...
Mar 25, 2003 3:22 pm
898
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Alan Bowring
alan.bowring@...
Mar 26, 2003 12:42 pm
903
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...
... 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...
... From: Yolande Hodson To: ordnancemaps@... Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 5:52 PM Subject: Parish boundaries I note the recent chat about parish...
Yolande Hodson
y.hodson@...
Mar 26, 2003 5:59 pm
906
Yolande Hodson wrote: "OS currently has a rather brilliant Cartographic Design Manager (Rick Morris) who has managed to devise new symbols for the parish ...
rroliver
R.R.Oliver@...
Mar 27, 2003 6:47 pm
907
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...
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...
