I have always understood that the 1:2500 County Series plans only covered 'cultivated' areas and that for 'waste' areas the 1:10,560 was the largest scale...
The actual extent of 1:2500 cover on the fringes of uncultivated area dosen't seem to have been studied much, but it is worth bearing in mind that Westmorland...
Richard Oliver
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Apr 8, 2003 10:49 am
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Hi, All; does anyone know if anyone has compiled a list of locations and NGRs of the viewpoints shown on 1:50000 sheets, and which might be available for...
Regarding Bob's question - I guess the OS themselves might be able to provide a complete list of viewpoints. On a different topic, I came across the letters...
Alan Bowring
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Apr 13, 2003 2:47 pm
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... According to the OS list of abbreviations, SD can stand for;- Side, Single Drain or Ditch Sundial. Doesn't help much, does it :-) John...
Hi, I just happen to be reading a book about the National Trust For Scotland who own St Kilda..... From this I gather that the island has or is used in...
The above lists have been updated and can be found at <A HREF="http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm"> www.watsonlv.addr.com/os-maps.htm</A>. (Additions &...
About to spend Easter in Cheshire checking out milestones and mileposts. Decided to do a paper recce with Explorer 267. Oops, where have the mileposts gone?...
Hi All There is a difference of opinion, which is the best programs to use, when converting from Ordnance Survey Grid References to Latitude / Longitude...
Hi, I was pointed to the Charles Close Society website by one of the Ordnance Survey webmasters and I'll definitely be joining, if only for the magazine and...
... Depends on the accuracy I want. If I just want an approximate conversion in a nice pointy-clicky setting, I use streetmap. For flexible but inaccurate...
Sheetlines came through the door yesterday and I have enjoyed reading it as always. I found myself in agreement with a number of the points which David...
Alan Bowring
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Apr 23, 2003 7:25 am
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For we members of the Milestone Society this is a very pertinent question, particularly as I recently wrote something for their newsletters on OS maps and...
Richard Oliver
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Apr 23, 2003 10:31 am
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A friend of mine recently sent me a copy of a page from a Revision Point book that features a very brief text description of the RP location and a B&W...
This could be a can of worms!! I believe that the Revision Point Albums were declared obsolete by OS quite some years ago. They were apparently not regarded as...
Richard Oliver
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Apr 23, 2003 4:22 pm
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Thanks for that Richard. Personally I would prefer that they all be shown but as one of The Milestone Society county coordinators it could be said that I am...
I'd appreciate hearing something about the historical or traditional extent and use of the term the Border(s) as an area of England/Scotland. The New Shorter...
I, too, would like all milestones and mileposts which are of the roadside-archaeology type to be shown, though not those 100-metre markers which appear along...
Richard Oliver
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Apr 24, 2003 8:49 am
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I'll check some of these milestones/posts out myself since they are only a mile or so from home. Incidentally, when did the practice cease of giving the...
Alan Bowring
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Apr 24, 2003 8:29 pm
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The term Border as used today to describe not only the Borders Region in Scotland but those parts of both kingdoms can only be of 'relatively recent use, until...
Hi, Could anyone tell me if these OS Pamphlets are available anywhere on the www for reading if so where? Instructions to One-Inch Field Revisers (1900) pp...
... of giving the mileages of milestones/posts on 1:25000 mapping? It would seem to have been with effect from 1960, when mileages were directed to be omitted...
Richard Oliver
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Apr 25, 2003 9:36 am
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I have recently acquired a small collection of maps from the US which were issued to a Captain in the 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion, US Army, when the ...
The following is a summary reply! More will be found in my 1:25,000 article in Sheetlines 36. GSGS 3906 covered the whole of the British Isles. About 200...
Richard Oliver
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Apr 25, 2003 12:46 pm
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Many thanks indeed to Richard for his clear explanation of GSGS 3906. I will aim to obtain the article in Sheetlines 36 which he refers to. Also with the lot...
... The issue for sale of War Revision and 2nd War Revision of GSGS 3907 and 3908 was authorised in 1942 as an alternative to heavy reprinting of civil...
Richard Oliver
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Apr 26, 2003 3:18 pm
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hello all, I have just joined the group,havingcome across it accidently. I am currently doing some WW2 uk military research, and trying to relate the old...
To Frank Jones and the List I have a simple DOS based program (which runs under my Windows 98SE) and it will convert WO Cassini grid refs to National Grid...
