[PDF] Hertfordshire Maps eBook

Author : Andrew Macnair
Publisher : Windgather Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1909686743

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This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London mapmakers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews. For well over two centuries, from the time of Elizabeth I to the late 18th century, the county was the basic unit for mapping in Britain and the period witnessed several episodes of comprehensive map making. The map which forms the subject of this book followed on from a large number of previous maps of the county but was greatly superior to them in terms of quality and detail. It was published in a variety of forms, in nine sheets with an additional index map, over a period of 60 years. No other maps of Hertfordshire were produced during the rest of the century, but the Board of Ordnance, later the Ordnance Survey, established in the 1790s, began to survey the Hertfordshire area in 1799, publishing the first maps covering the county between 1805 and 1834. The OS came to dominate map making in Britain but, of all the maps of Hertfordshire, that produced by Dury and Andrews was the first to be surveyed at a sufficiently large scale to really allow those dwelling in the county to visualize their own parish, local topography and even their own house, and its place in the wider landscape. The first section examines the context of the map’s production and its place in cartographic history, and describes the creation of a new, digital version of the map which can be accessed online . The second part describes various ways in which this electronic version can be interrogated, in order to throw important new light on Hertfordshire’s landscape and society, both in the middle decades of the eighteenth century when it was produced, and in more remote periods. The attached DVD contains over a dozen maps which have been derived from the digital version, and which illustrate many of the issues discussed in the text, as well as related material which should likewise be useful to students of landscape history, historical geography and local history.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385445574

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Roger J. P. Kain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521827713

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This book offers the first comprehensive study of the enclosure mapping of England and Wales. Enclosure maps are fundamental sources of evidence in many types of historical inquiries. Although modern historians tend to view these large-scale maps essentially as sources of data on past economies and societies, this book argues that enclosure maps had a much more active role at the time they were compiled. Seen from this perspective of their contemporary society, enclosure maps are not simply antiquarian curiosities, cultural artefacts, or useful sources for historians but instruments of land reorganisation and control which both reflected and consolidated the power of those who commissioned them. The book is accompanied by a fully searchable, descriptive and analytical web catalogue of all parliamentary and non-parliamentary enclosure maps extant in public archives and libraries and offers an essential research tool for economic, social and local historians and for geographers, lawyers and planners.

Author : Roger J. P. Kain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 1995-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521441919

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A reference work on the tithe maps of England and Wales for historians, geographers and lawyers.

Author : Anne Rowe
Publisher : Hertfordshire Publications
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1909291005

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More than three decades after the publication of Lionel Munby's seminal work 'The Hertfordshire Landscape', Anne Rowe and Tom Williamson have produced an authoritative new study, based on their own extensive fieldwork and documentary investigations, as well as on the wealth of new research carried out into Hertfordshire specifically and into landscape history and archaeology more generally.

Author : Harold Whitaker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1108058825

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An extensive and well-illustrated catalogue of maps of the Yorkshire area, first published in 1933 and reprinted in 1971.

Author : William Foot
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2004-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1550025066

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This guide shows you how three great land surveys can provide information on your ancestor's home as well as historical snapshots of your area. The tithe, Valuation Office and National Farm surveys were comparable to the Domesday Book in their coverage. Spanning the period 1836-1943, they provide abundant information on rural and urban localities; on dwellings, settlements and landscapes; and on individual householders and tenants, farmers and industrialists. The surveys are of value to family and local historians. This guide is your companion to researching these records. The text explains why and how the surveys were made, and shows you how to identify and interpret the records that will put your ancestors or neighbourhood 'on the map'.