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Maps information for Berkshire and places above it in the hierarchy

Berkshire

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Berkshire FHS sells many historical maps of Berkshire, including a CD of the fifty-one 6 inch maps of Berkshire (produced with the RBA), originally published by the Ordnance Survey between 1881-1887.
RBA holds a number of historical maps, including:
- Speed’s 1611 map of Reading – the earliest known (D/EX2385).
- New Landscapes: Enclosure in Berkshire, a joint project with the Museum of English Rural Life, shows historic manuscript maps and land awards, and thus documents the process of enclosing the common fields of Berkshire between 1738 and 1883, particularly useful for finding older place names.
- Tithe maps (best source for finding who owned/farmed what land and how in the early Victorian period), and manuscript and printed maps, indexed by place. See description from the TNA. Available by subscription from The Genealogist.
- Deposited Plans (plans required to be submitted for major infrastructure projects (e.g. a new railway line)) which include, not only the map itself, but also details of the ownership of the land affected. E.g. the Deposited Plan of Great Western Railway at time of widening of the line from Maidenhead to Reading in 1890, ref. D/P 113/28/4. A fully index transcript of some of this data is available online only to members of the Berkshire FHS for two new railways proposed in 1845: Reading, Guildford & Reigate Railway and the Reading & Reigate Railway.
- Reading Board of Health maps were drawn up by the Reading Borough surveyor, John [Berry] Clancy, to a scale of 50 feet : 1 inch in 1853 to survey the state of sanitary provision in the town, available free online.
- A small group of plans which have strayed from the Englefield Estate archive (D/EZ175).
- 6 inch and 25 inch to the mile OS maps from the first edition in the 1870s to the 1930s.
The Genealogist provide subscription access to Tithe maps.
Oxfordshire Record Office’s tithe maps of Steventon and North Moreton in the pre-1974 county of Berkshire.
Reading Central Library:
- A selection of maps from 1574 onwards for reference, including enormous 1:500 OS maps of Reading in the 1870s, see their Factsheet.
- The Rocque maps of 1761, see article in Berkshire Family Historian, Dec 2008, Vol 32, page 12.
- Free online estate maps for for some estates in Berkshire, including Hardwick, Rose Hill, London Street, Good Rest, Castle Hill, Earley, Burfield and Shinfield.
Maidenhead, Windsor and Ascot Libraries hold a large selection of printed OS maps for each of their distinct areas from 1868 to 1993.
An Historical Atlas of Berkshire, editor Joan Dils and Margaret Yates, Berkshire Record Society, 2012, ISBN 0 9548716 9 3, shows maps of: parishes, geology, administration divisions, agriculture, country houses, Poor Law areas, railways, roads, population, etc. Copies are held by Berkshire FHS and Reading Central Library.
The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies produces a Parish Map of Berkshire giving the name of each parish and showing parochial boundaries and probate jurisdiction in colour. It is also available from the Berkshire FHS shop.
Cambridge University Library have digitised John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine published in 1611/12 of the UK, including a map of Berkshire (page 8 of 66).

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The Great Britain Historical Geography Information Service (GBHGIS) provides a mass of information about Britain's localities as they have changed over time. Information comes from census reports, historical gazetteers, travellers' tales and historic maps.
A Vision of Britain Through Time, in the GBHGIS, provides maps and statistical information derived from census reports covering the period 1801-2001, searchable by place name or post code.
The Landmark Information Group sell online 19th Century Ordnance Survey maps linked from an extensive gazetteer. These are at a scale of 1:10,560 (6 inches to the mile) and cover all of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Maps showing the counties in England, Scotland and Wales and in Ireland prior to the 1974 re-organisation (1975 for Scotland). These maps show the familiar three-letter Chapman Codes.
The National Library of Scotland provides scanned map images of various series of Ordnance Survey maps of Scotland, England and Wales from the mid-19th century to 1970s.
Catalogue of British Town Maps - "locates town maps extant in UK public archives and libraries. It provides details of almost 8,000 maps and provides for each the key cartographical and other features and the location of publicly-accessible exemplars. Associated with each catalogue entry is a PDF image outlining the area covered by the map."
- Kain, R.J.P. and Oliver, R. British Town Maps: A History. British Library Publishing Division (2015) 240 pp. [ISBN-10: 0712357297]
Genmaps - a very large collection of scanned maps of England, Wales and Scotland.
Old Maps Online: "the easy to use gateway to historical maps online in libraries around the world".
County maps (archived copy) showing the parish boundaries, the probate jurisdiction, and the date of commencement of registers, are available from The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies.
The Bodleian Library Map Room.
Streetmap.co.uk provides up-to-date street maps for all of mainland Britain. A similar service is provided by Multi Media Mapping and Bing.
A modern map of the United Kingdom.
The Association of British Counties website includes a very useful map showing the 86 historic counties of Great Britain.
Alan Gresley provides a set of high quality scans of maps from Baedeker's Great Britain (archived copy), Handbook for Travelers by Karl Baedeker (7th ed., 1910).
Geography and National Statistics - explanatory pages from The Office of National Statistics
Cassini publish historical Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales that have been scanned, digitally re-projected and enlarged to match the present-day Landranger © series - and provide Mapmaker, a web-based search facility that allows a user to centre a map on a postcode or placename, ready for downloading or printing.
Francis Frith sells Victorian county maps, by the Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.
British Isles Maps and Views - "free access to high quality scans of rare and beautiful antique maps and views", from MAPCO.
Detailed scans of 1950s Ordnance Survey Maps - the New Popular Edition (in England and Wales), and the earlier sheets from the 7th Edition (in Scotland / Northern England).
Detailed scan of the Map of England & Wales by S. Lewis & Co., London c1840, provided by MAPCO.
Digimap - a subscription service available to UK Higher Educational Institutions that provides online access to "all available County Series maps at 1:2,500 and 1:10560 scales published between 1843 and 1939; and all available National Grid maps at 1:1,250, 1:2,500 and 1:10560/10,000 scales published from 1945".
FamilySearch's Maps facility can be used to find parishes and see their parish boundaries overlaid on a modern Ordnance Survey map.
Advice for family historians, concerning the use of maps and gazeteers, from the History of Cartography pages in WWW-Virtual Library:History.
Maps for Family and Local History - from the National Archives.
The Royal Collection Trust 's George III Collection of Military Maps contains numerous maps of England, and some of Wales and of Scotland.
The British Historic Towns Trust Atlas provides free-to-download Atlases and maps of Britain's historic towns and cities.

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