We have recently added all our out-of-copyright holdings of geological maps of Scotland online. You may now easily rotate all images by holding down your [Alt] and [Shift] keys while dragging the mouse cursor. [21][22], Locks on Caledonian Canal in Fort Augustus, Loch Ness in the background. For further information see UDA South East Antrim Brigade. For many of Scotlands busier estuaries and ports, there are also regular revisions of charts coming through to the present day - often more revisions than for Ordnance Survey maps, and at different dates. [8] The old flag has been included in some later designs to mark a pre-1801 British connection, as with the coat of arms of the Colony of Sierra Leone adopted in 1914[9] or the flag of Baton Rouge, Louisiana adopted in 1995. The maps show nearly all permanent features of over 1 square metre in size, showing excellent detail of commercial and residential buildings, railway stations, docks, factories and parks, as well as house names and numbers. We have added a further 1,657 Ordnance Survey 25 inch Parish edition maps of Scotland online. We have added a way to search trench map coordinates in our Map Finder - with Outlines and Explore Georeferenced Maps viewers. Compiled for the purposes of implementing new parliamentary boundaries, their consistent style and scale (of six-inches to the mile), along with their accompanying burgh reports, make them a valuable snapshot of urban Scotland. We are georeferencing these maps so they can be easily compared to the present day, or compared to each other over time for towns with two editions (eg. Many of these maps are folded, fragile or from special collections, that have only recently been possible to scan. Our set of these were originally owned by Alan Ogilvie (1887-1954), first Professor of Geography at Edinburgh University, and they were subsequently donated to the Library in 1981. These charts were drafted to support expanding merchant shipping and fisheries, for ferries and steamer travel, as well as intermittent naval concerns. [23] His accident was recorded by the BBC reporters on site at the time. 3). A post shared by Ian Cylkowski (@iancylkowskiphotography). It is also possible to fade the transparency and view different base maps. 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All towns, villages and cultivated rural areas were mapped, comprising over a third of the total land area of Scotland. uncoloured) edition of the standard, coloured 1:25,000 Provisional series, and it extended over most of Great Britain during the 1940s-1960s. Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Larne throughout the course of The Troubles had a significant paramilitary presence in the town, mostly through the presence of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Ulster Defence Association (UDA). The Hillsborough Castle Agreement[17] on 5 February 2010 resulted in the following reserved powers being transferred to the Northern Ireland Assembly on 12 April 2010:[18], Some policing and justice powers remain reserved It included 112 colour maps, all specially compiled for the Atlas over the previous 5 years, and including many thematic maps, as well as political and topographic maps. Together they provide an excellent overview of the Scottish landscape for the period. Don't get it confused with Oronsay which another island situated just west of Jura. The early coastal dwellers are thought to have had a sophisticated culture which involved trading between the shores of the North Channel and between other settlements on the coasts of Scotland. This layer currently just covers counties in south-east England, but will expand geographically as scanning continues. The Special Emergency Edition, 1938-39 was a rapid revision of the Ordnance Survey's Six-Inch to the mile maps for Air Raid Precaution purposes. Often these maps show new proposals (not always implemented) for buildings, roads, docks, railways or other infrastructure. With many thanks to all our volunteers for their transcriptions work, our Ordnance Survey 25 Inch Edinburgh Transcriptions viewer allows you to search all the text on Ordnance Survey 25 inch maps of Edinburgh from 1892-4. For many Highland areas, it is the most detailed and informative map that survives for the entire 18th century. They added categories of roads, including drove roads, steamer routes, and rights of way that were often not shown on Ordnance Survey maps. 25 inch 2nd and later edition maps of Scotland form the most detailed topographic mapping for all the inhabited regions of Scotland from the 1890s to the 1940s. Scotland's Outstanding Lighthouses. The maps are available through a graphic index and on our Estate Maps of Scotland page ordered by county and parish: We have just added 400 new street maps of Scottish towns held within Post Office Directories. The southern end connects to Loch Oich by the River Oich and a section of the Caledonian Canal. They were collected by supporters of the Jacobite cause from exile in France in the 18th and 19th centuries, and acquired by the Library in 1977. The resource is part of a growing series, focusing on maps for particular subjects or user communities. Make sure you time your trip right as you don't want to get stranded, unless you plan on wild camping. It was also particularly valuable for aviation, with various Civil Air and Royal Air Force editions, as well as a set captured and reissued for the German Luftwaffe, showing new aerodromes, landing strips and conspicuous features from the air. They show the acquisition and sale of land and estates, the feuing of land for building, legal cases settling disputes relating to fishing, mining, and roads, and various other planned rural developments. The maps cover extensive areas west of Inverness, as far as Mallaig and Fort Augustus in the west and south, and range in date from the 1750s through to the 1960s. 6 February 1975: Colette Brown, a Catholic, was found by the side of the Killyglen Road after being shot by Loyalists. 3906. These towns and cities had often sustained Second World War bomb damage, which can be clearly seen too. [3] In 1979 a temporary exhibition about the R34 airship was mounted, followed by Fighters of the RFC and RAF, 1914 to 1940 the following year. You can use the maps for a range of purposes. All land was colour-coded into six main categories and reduced the one-inch to the mile scale for publication. You can use the Side by Side Viewer to display your choice of any of these layers in each window, and compare them to each other, as well as to modern Google, Bing or Ordnance Survey maps. These are often very detailed maps of rural areas which quantify land and resources. A range of both old and modern mapping layers provides the user with a customisable backdrop to selecting areas of interest, and keyword searching is provided by placename and National Grid Reference, alongside browsable gazetteers of counties and their parishes. The collection includes over 400 flat-sheet maps of Scotland, and dates from the late 16th century through to the mid 20th century. The Soil Survey of Scotland mapping can be viewed using a clickable map of Scotland and as an ordered list. Larne is 25 miles from the Scottish mainland, with views across the North Channel towards the Mull of Kintyre, Rhins of Galloway, Islay and Paps of Jura often visible from the Larne area this proximity to Scotland has had a defining influence on Larne's history and culture. The Assembly was abolished under the Northern Ireland Act 1974,[14] which transferred its law-making power to the Queen in Council once again. The 25 inch to the mile series (1855-1882), is the earliest detailed OS mapping for all the inhabited regions of Scotland. In the map images viewer, you can also print a PDF of the drawn features, and save a JSON file with X,Y image coordinates. Very often, these new coloured sheets were earliest states which were later re-issued, sometimes with updated information relating to railways, docks, or parish boundaries. This selection of 33 geo-referenced bathymetrical charts of Scottish lochs allows them to be directly compared with modern Google Maps and Virtual Earth layers. Douglass first visited Edinburgh in 1846 and these maps take you to the places where Frederick Douglass lived, held meetings and gave speeches during his antislavery campaign in Edinburgh and Scotland, as well as the sites where other black abolitionists gave speeches in Edinburgh. You can search for OS air photo mosaics using a zoomable map of Scotland and by place-names. All the maps use Ordnance Survey topographic mapping as their base. This quarter-inch to the mile series was the earliest complete series by Ordnance Survey at this scale, covering all of Scotland in ten sheets. [18] It was out of service between 2009 and 2012 for repair of the tunnels connecting the reservoir to the turbines. We have added a small set of 140 topographic maps covering part of southern India. [15], Loch Ness is known as the home of the Loch Ness Monster (also known as "Nessie"), a cryptid, reputedly a large unknown animal. These maps are excellent for providing an overview of the rural landscape, and changes over time can now be viewed more comprehensively. These 6,193 air photo mosaics provide detailed information on the landscape of England and Wales in the 1940s, complementing the Scottish air photo mosaics which we have had online since 2009. "The Concorde Experience" includes a walk-through and around the aircraft (with an accompanying audio guide available), an audio-visual presentation about the history of G-BOAA, and an exhibition about the history of Concorde with prototype and production Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 engines, aircraft seats and numerous small objects. This mapping covers an area of about 20 square miles, made up of 4,292 sheets, each covering 500 x 500 metres on the ground. We have georeferenced all these maps first and will add sheet lines for them all soon so they can be searched in our Map Finder viewers. [14], There was Viking activity in the area during the 10th and 11th centuries AD. They record the names that soldiers gave the trenches, as well as the names of nearby farms, villages, woods, and other landmarks. As a result of this the entire site is a scheduled monument with no permanent structures added by the museum. [18] This event marked a major step in cementing the right to Ulster Unionist self-determination, with the recognition of such a right ultimately leading to the creation of Northern Ireland. This resource was created as part of a work placement at the Library undertaken by Matthew Lee, a PhD student working on a collaborative project between the University of Aberdeen and the National Library of Scotland. There are also a set of Horizontal and Vertical Sections. These updates include Air Raid Precaution revisions from 1938-9, included on GSGS 3906, and some selective updating of roads and railways from large-scale revision in the 1930s. The maps form part of the major intelligence-gathering project by the German Army as part of 'Operation Sealion', Hitler's preparations for a possible invasion of Great Britain. The earliest of these maps are nearly always the most detailed depictions of towns before the Ordnance Survey mapping from the 1840s. This is all our holdings of this series, consisting of 829 sheets. "), and so it was named "Loch Nis". Lighthouses have been built in epic locations around the world, from volcanoes to sand dunes. Not too far from Skye sits Oronsay Island, a mythically charming, undiscovered nature haven. '28.I.8', '36C.S.22.c', '62d.J.19.b.4.3') in the 'Search Places' panel to the upper left, and the map will zoom to these locations. The maps show farms and settlements, roads and railways, rivers and watercourses, administrative and field boundaries, woodland and land use, as well as contour lines; buildings are generalised in urban areas but many street names are also shown. They show its detailed topography, including the geographic distribution and location of sugar plantations and their owners at the sugar industry's peak, shortly before the abolition of slavery. The online resource was created during a six month placement by Iara Calton, an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD student at the University of Glasgow. We have added a further 580 maps online, relating to Sutherland Estates. You can choose a feature type for drawing, choose a colour, and just click/tap on the map to draw. The Kingdom of Great Britain finally came into being in 1707. These are the most detailed maps that Ordnance Survey ever surveyed of these towns, and are especially useful for showing the urban landscape in maximum detail. Our graphic index showing the maps highlights the new maps published in 1970 in orange. Maps can reveal detailed information about local areas over time, including buildings, gardens, industries, railways, roads, woodland and agricultural land. The museum purchased five aircraft (Bristol Fairchild Bolingbroke, de Havilland Dragon, de Havilland Puss Moth, General Aircraft Cygnet and Percival Provost). These include the ability to view the map side-by-side and zoom and pan, comparing the historic map directly with a modern map or satellite layer or to other maps. 1923-30) series, a number of related series were also published. Our new additions include the Maxwells of Monreith Estate Maps and Plans, 1777-1778, a set of estate maps and accompanying schedules surveyed by John Gillone (1767-1809) in 1777-78, relating to Monreith estate in Wigtownshire. Any matter not explicitly listed in the Act is implicitly devolved to the Senedd. The Seventh Series provides an excellent overview of the landscape of Great Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, and it was the only standard one-inch to the mile (1:63,360) series to cover the whole of Great Britain. This gave the regiment the right to march through the towns of the borough with 'flags flying, bands playing and bayonets fixed'. Although printed in 1942, the source content relates to the initial half-inch series drawn in the 1900s, with topographic content derived from the main nationwide revision of maps at the larger-scales from the 1890s. Topographic detail was selectively redrawn from the Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile maps of the 1920s. This includes 29 sheets covering Scotland and 37 sheets covering England and Wales. The A36 road runs from the town to Ballymena. The Outline series was quickly appreciated by planners and local government officials for administrative purposes, and it was also popular with market researchers. The cuisine on offer spans various price points, from tapas plates that pack a punch to seafood caught fresh from within the restaurant. Re-use of these layers is intended for personal purposes (further information). A post shared by Lastovo (@lastovo_island). The Tower of Hercules in Spain is the oldest operating lighthouse in the world. Currently there is no freight transport by rail in Northern Ireland. We have updated our maps website design to improve navigation and usability. FOX FILES combines in-depth news reporting from a variety of Fox News on-air talent. In 1569, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland, appointed Sir Moyses Hill as the governor of Olderfleet Castle. [2] A smaller (5MW) power station nearby used to provide power for an aluminium smelting plant, but now electricity is generated and supplied to the National Grid. We have seamed and geo-referenced them so that they can be directly compared with modern Google Map and Satellite views. [14] William Mackay in his 1893 book Urquhart and Glenmoriston: Olden times in a highland parish recounts two Scottish legends that have been reported as the source of the name. Many of the plans show projected works that were not necessarily carried out in practice. This was the largest scale post-War mapping to cover these rural areas, and it shows excellent detail of man-made structures such as farms, settlements and houses, as well as roads, railways and industrial works. These charts focus on nautical information for mariners, but they also play an important part in establishing the coastline and shape of Scotland, as well as providing often unique information on coastal settlements and ports. Water in Blue, 1941-42 home page, Six-inch to the mile geological maps home page, One-inch to the mile geological maps home page, German Army, Karte von Schottland 1:50,000, 1941 home page, Great Britain 1:25,000. Another significant expansion took place with the donation of much of the British Airways Collection of aircraft in 2006. Another scheme, the 100-megawatt Glendoe Hydro Scheme near Fort Augustus, began generation in June 2009. These maps were hand-drawn or with manuscript annotations, and are primarily from the earlier era of estate mapping in Scotland in the 18th century. The series is made up of 7,486 map sheets. [10], Devolution in Northern Ireland was originally provided for in the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which stated that the Parliament of Northern Ireland could not make laws in the following main areas:[11]. This is based on the parish and county boundaries in the 1950s. There are also over 60 maps related to the restoration of Edinburgh Castle in the 1880s, chiefly under the supervision of the architect, Hippolyte Blanc. This series at half-inch to the mile scale (1:126,720) was published during the Second World War as an Outline (uncoloured) series, with topography in black, and inland water features printed in blue. Of these, the Cygnet and Provost were the first aircraft to make their final flights to join the museum. The ending -fleet comes from the Norse fljot, meaning "inlet". An exception is the Commissioners' flag of the Northern Lighthouse Board, whose old stock lasted so long that its anachronistic design became fixed by tradition. We have just upgraded our collaborative online Georeferencer application with several new features. Although coverage is partial and still expanding, 1 metre or higher resolution LiDAR is available for most of England, Scotland, and Wales. Edward saw Ireland as another front in the ongoing war against Norman England. Robertson was paid the monumental sum of 10,450 for his maps and returned to Great Britain, where he later compiled a map of the north-eastern counties of Scotland (1822). This series is the most detailed mapping of London by Ordnance Survey just over a century ago. We have added a small set of 21 German naval charts of Scottish and British waters, produced by the Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine in Berlin. The Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, Scotland, is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse. A. T. Q. Stewart: "The Ulster Crisis", London, Faber and Faber Ltd., 1967 SBN 571 08066 9, Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station, List of localities in Northern Ireland by population, "Census 2011 Population Statistics for Larne Settlement", Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, "Census 2011 Population Statistics for Larne Local Government District", "Larne Borough council Local History and Heritage", "Answers The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions", "Fejl: Siden blev ikke fundet / adgang er ikke tilladt", "Terrorist Incident (Larne) (Hansard, 6 May 1980)", "BBC News NORTHERN IRELAND Fresh appeal after bonfire murder", "LEDCOM -Expert business advice and resources in Larne and Co. Antrim", "Larne High School shares successes with Minister", "New march to be gifted at Larne ceremony", "Friends Goodwill Music Festival returns to Larne", "Larne FC owner Kenny Bruce lobbied Stormont parties to back embattled Mid and East Antrim council boss after NI Protocol letter row", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larne&oldid=1125132407, Port cities and towns in Northern Ireland, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2021, Articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 16 September 1972: Sinclair Johnston a UVF member, was shot by the. These maps have been scanned and georeferenced to support collaborative academic projects relating to water resources in southern India, led by the University of Lancaster. WebGL is widely supported by modern web browsers - you can check if your browser is supported. You can easily modify features once drawn, as well as delete them. [31] Other leisure facilities include Larne Leisure Centre[32] and Larne Museum & Arts Centre. Read further information about Alexander Innes, about the journal and map sources, and about the resource. The Blaeu Atlas Maior or Cosmographia Blaviana is one of the largest and most splendid of the multi-volume Dutch world atlases. The following is a list of townlands within Larne's urban area, along with their likely etymologies:[30]. Colour-coding allowed fire risk to be graphically portrayed: brick and stone buildings were shown in red, timber buildings in yellow, iron or metal buildings in grey, and skylights in blue. John Cobb died in an attempt at the water speed record when his boat Crusader struck an unexplained wake on the surface of the loch in 1952. This area was known in Irish as Inbhear an Latharna ("rivermouth/estuary of Latharna")[13] and was later anglicised as Inver Larne or simply Inver. We hope that you find these changes useful, and would be grateful for feedback as we continue to develop the website. Our home page is now shorter and simpler, with the main map search options presented more clearly. It contains a single, artificial island named Cherry Island (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Muireach) at the southwestern end. This celebrates the 200 year anniversary of the birth of African American activist and author, Frederick Douglass. United Irishman: the autobiography of James Hope: The autobiography of James Hope. Larne (from Irish: Latharna, IPA:[lahn], the name of a Gaelic territory)[1][2][3] is a town on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, with a population of 18,755 at the 2011 Census. These administrative jurisdictions, especially parishes, have many other family and local history records associated with them, and viewing their location and extents is therefore important. Search using a graphic index, or view a list of all sheets. Ptolemy's Geography was a synthesis of Greek scientific and geographic thought, and its re-discovery and printing in Western Europe in the 15th century had a catalytic effect on Renaissance cartography. Read further information about these new additions. These maps have been scanned and georeferenced to support a collaborative academic project, Digital Innovation in Water Scarcity in Coimbatore, India, led by the University of Lancaster. The collection includes several important early editions and unusual maps, as well as some unique manuscript maps, all not found in the main NLS map collections. The series was produced in two forms, with relief was shown by layer colours as well as by hachures. We have put online all of our Ordnance Survey One-Inch Seventh Series maps (896 sheets), covering all of Great Britain, 1952-1970. The plans depict and name many urban features of importance, including major streets, public buildings, industrial premises, docks, canals, and bridges, as well as surrounding farms and villages. We would be happy to receive feedback to maps@nls.uk. There are over 21,950 transcriptions youll find street and other place names, real-world features such as breweries, churches, football grounds, hospitals, pubs and schools, as well as numeric transcriptions for things like acreages and heights. For many of us, going on holiday is about switching off and escaping the hustle and bustle of everyday life. There are nine villages around the loch, as well as Urquhart Castle; the village of Drumnadrochit contains a "Loch Ness Centre and Exhibition". ("There's a loch now, there's a loch now! We have added 300 new estate plans of Scotland. Many of these maps are folded, fragile or from special collections, that have only recently been possible to scan. The hangars, control tower and stores were designated as Category B listed buildings by Historic Scotland, but this designation was removed in 2013 as they were already covered by the stricter scheduling. It is an artificial island, known as a crannog, and was likely constructed during the Iron Age. The series complement our existing Ordnance Survey indexes and OS Records viewer. Gozo is also a popular find with divers who relish traversing its many caves. These maps include updates and additions (including new placenames, roads, and railways) to all the standard county maps, as well as new maps for cyclists, motorists and tourists. Many archaeological sites such as hillforts, Roman camps, deserted villages, or cultivation terraces can be seen much more clearly than on satellite imagery or maps. We have put online 1,072 detailed Stevenson civil engineering plans relating to Scotland. We have recently added a further 300 estate maps of south-west Scotland, scanned by the Dumfries Archival Mapping Project. After the suspension of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, policing and justice powers transferred to the UK Parliament and were subsequently administered by the Northern Ireland Office within the UK Government. Formal theory. View our geo search help to see which map series are included and for further guidance on using the application. [19][20] The 450 MW / 2.8 GWh Red John project was approved in 2021. It contains more water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined, and is the largest body of water in the Great Glen, which runs from Inverness in the north to Fort William in the south. [5] Its surface is 16 metres (52 feet) above sea level. The program will feature the breadth, power and journalism of rotating Fox News anchors, reporters and producers. Read further information about the Soil Survey, including how the surveying was done and how the maps were prepared. This layer will expand geographically over the next year as we continue to scan more OS National Grid post-War mapping. These include Wartime Experience held in May and Wheels and Wings, a transport event held in September. The Roman emperor Severus is known to have described how, in 204 AD, a Roman galley bound for Scotland veered off course to a place called Portus Saxa, which was believed to be Larne Lough. We have added a further 224 estate maps online, excellent for showing detail of the rural landscape. "The Jet Age" includes a stack of engines, showing the development of the jet engine and how this drove the growth of commercial aviation. Hope, J., & Newsinger, J. [12] The town sprang up where the River Inver flows into Larne Lough. Sir Henry St George, Garter Principal King of Arms, had presented several possible designs to Queen Anne and the Privy Council. This also includes a set of Outline (uncoloured) sheets, as well as the Seventh Series Indexes, showing sheet lines of the 1:2500 County Series related to the National Grid. It provides a uniform graphic snapshot of the entire Scottish mainland at a time when the landscape was beginning an era of rapid change. covering 1 x 2 kilometre squares), covers large areas of the Central Belt, the Borders and parts of north-east Scotland, dating from 1945-1967. You can download any of the boundaries as shapefiles or KML files for onward re-use, and read about the boundaries. These two atlases, deriving from the work of Claudius Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD, describe geographical principles and locations from the Classical World. A list of the aircraft in the collection is given on the museum website. We have added an additional set of 73 topographic maps covering part of southern India, to provide complete coverage of the River Kavery, and everywhere south of the 12th parallel north. The maps show these boundaries are a clear, coloured overlay. View a list of all sheets or search using a graphic index. The series is made up of 17,466 map sheets, and all were revised from 1892-1907. During the early 1920s several aero engines were added to the collection, including a 1910 33hp Wright engine donated by Orville Wright. [17], Loch Ness serves as the lower storage reservoir for the 300MW Foyers pumped-storage hydroelectric scheme, which opened in 1975. We have added 41 new OS Town Plans of England online at a scale of Five Foot to the Mile (1:1,056 scale). You can zoom into the detail of the OS six-inch maps using an interactive index map, and search by county, parish and a gazetteer of place names. The museum expanded significantly in 1981 as a result of the sale by auction of much of the Strathallan Collection of aircraft. We now have over 160 layers of georeferenced mapping in our Explore Georeferenced Maps viewer and it is often useful to compare different scales and dates of this mapping on screen at the same time. Excepted matters are outlined in Schedule 2 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998:[15], Reserved matters are outlined in Schedule 3 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998:[16]. In the first, a spring in a valley had been enchanted by Daly the Druid for purity, with the admonition that the well opening must be covered by a stone whenever not in use, or else "desolation will overtake the land". Towns and villages are identified as being Christian or Muslim, and are given both their Greek and Turkish names. [9] Dochgarroch weir at the downstream end of Loch Dochfour delineates the start of the River Ness, which connects to the nearby and ultimately leads through Inverness to the North Sea via the Moray Firth. You can also try out different transformation options for each georeferenced map based the control points entered already. [33] Cairndhu Golf Course is situated atop of Ballygally Head[34] and Larne Golf Course on sits atop of the Islandmagee peninsula. We have georeferenced a selection of these estate maps allowing them to be compared to the present day and other mapping. The Elbow Reef Lighthouse is one of only three manual lighthouses left in the world. Towns with more than 4,000 people were initially surveyed at 1:1,056 scale from the 1840s, and the 1:500 scale was only authorised from 1855, so this set of 1:1,056 town plans usually date from the 1840s-1850s. It is also possible to compare the georeferenced maps side-by-side to each other, and compare them to modern satellite images and maps. Our new Map Finder viewer provides a significantly improved method of accessing 18,000 of our online maps. Read further information about Claudius Ptolemy and the Geography. These are the most detailed, basic scales of Ordnance Survey maps for these areas. The Fatal Accidents and Sudden Death Inquiry (Scotland) Act, 1976 repealed and replaced both these earlier acts and introduced four major changes: it dispensed with the need for a jury; gave wide powers to the Lord Advocate in relation to such inquiries; brought deaths in prisons and of persons in legal custody into the normal FAI system Bartholomew's beautifully layer-coloured half-inch to the mile maps were developed from the 1880s, first covering Scotland as a series in the 1890s, and England and Wales by 1903. This is of huge value for local and family historians, placename researchers, as well as all those interested in the landscape of 18th century Scotland. It opened in 1878, was closed to passengers in 1933 and finally completely closed in 1950. In the post-pandemic travel boom, many popular destinations are packed to the brim with tourists, which isn't ideal for a quiet, relaxing getaway. Later maps show the creation of crofting lands, the expansion of shooting forests, and the sale of land. Both series also show an underlying basic topography of railway lines, towns, churches, coastlines and civil parish boundaries. The maps are immensely valuable for local and family history, allowing most features in the landscape to be shown. We have scanned a new hand-coloured one-inch series, covering all of Scotland and published on 132 sheets between 1856 and 1891. These boundaries provide many insights into the administration of Edinburgh over time, particularly its local government, public health, and ownership of land, as well as its patterns of development. It was seen as strategically important for any Tudor conquest of Ulster. The Gazetteer can also be downloaded in accessible formats for onward use and research. From 1859, Books of Reference were published for specific parishes, which the Library bound together into 22 volumes, ordered alphabetically by parish. Tranquility, culture, cuisines, all in earshot in your usual favourites. The Geography provides both a description of methods for mapping the known world and an extensive table of known places and their geographical locations based on the Ptolemaic system. These are an earlier set of flat sheets to the initial set we have had online since 2008. The base map content used the Ordnance Survey's one-inch to the mile 3rd edition maps, with topographic detail based on a revision of 1901-1910. The maps also show building heights and construction materials, wall thickness, internal room arrangement and function, types of roof, proximity to fire hydrants and fire-extinguishing appliances, and the locations of doors, windows and skylights. Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of Scotland form the earliest comprehensive topographic mapping of Scotland by Ordnance Survey. We have been pleased to collaborate with the British Library in a recent project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, to scan, georeference and make available more Ordnance Survey mapping for south-west England. LiDAR can help to bring out the effects of glaciation on local topography, or show the effects of geomorphology on soils. This series covering Great Britain in 62 sheets in the 1940s, their first to cover Great Britain at this scale, provides an attractive and useful snapshot of post-War Britain. Toward the end of the Second World War, Ordnance Survey prioritised the mapping of urban areas on new National Grid sheet lines, and at the detailed 1:1,250 scale for urban areas with a population of over 20,000 people. Both Larne Town railway station and Larne Harbour railway station opened on 1 October 1862 and closed for goods traffic on 4 January 1965.[44]. [2] The displays included several aircraft on loan, including de Havilland Dragon Rapide (G-ADAH), BA Swallow (G-AEVZ) and Fairey Delta 2 WG774. The maps cover 15 by 10 kilometres on the ground and are attractively coloured, with water in blue, contours at 5 metre intervals in brown, and the grid overlay figures in red. On Census day (27 March 2011) there were 18,755 people living in Larne, accounting for 1.04% of the NI total. Our new Side by Side Viewer allows an easy way of comparing different layers of historical georeferenced mapping on screen at the same time. You can query and filter the mill records by name, mill type, date, and related features, as well as compare distributions of mills in a split-screen viewer. This incident was raised in Parliament at the time.[20]. We are also pleased to add online over 200 maps of Great Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. We have added an additional 22 maps of counties in northern England. The series is particularly useful in showing an overview of significant landscape features such as towns and villages, roads and railways, as well as woodland and land-use. The transcription workflow also recorded related or nearby names from the Ordnance Survey 1st edition mapping from a century later in order to help searching and provide additional context for the Roy names. Birdseye views of this holiday spot would have you believe it sits comfortably within the shorelines of the Bahamas. New geo-referenced satellite image overlays allow historic town plans for Scotland to be directly compared with modern Google Maps and Virtual Earth satellite and map layers. These maps were made to support estate management by particular landed estates, including those of the Lockharts of Lee (1770s-1950s), primarily in Lanarkshire, and those of the Fletchers of Saltoun (1750s-1870s) in East Lothian. These include 1,481 detailed maps at scales of 1:1,250 and 1:2,500 covering areas in Scotland, and 728 less detailed maps at scales of 1:10,000/1:10,560 covering areas in England, Scotland and Wales. Several hundred detailed maps covering all of Scotland from 1856 to 1936 have been added to our sets of online series mapping, which will particularly benefit anyone doing family or local history research. The website includes several unique manuscript maps, which provide many insights into the development of Stornoway over the last two centuries, including proposals (some not implemented) for its development. Early railway plans often followed similar routes to canals, for transporting goods, but became much more extensive for passengers during the 19th century. A few coastal charts have also been added, including War Office maps proposing coastal harbour defences (1907-9). The maps can be viewed using a clickable map and as an ordered list. These very detailed maps cover the main industrial areas of seven towns and cities in Scotland, and date from the late 19th century through to the mid-20th century. How will Indonesias ban on sex outside marriage impact tourists? These series complement our existing OS Quarter-Inch to the mile maps and Boundaries viewer. Stay on a Boat. We have also added 125 sheets from the 1:25,000 Provisional edition, which have come out of copyright this year too. At the more local level, it is also possible to see new reservoirs, new roads, and significant changes to patterns of arable and pasture land. The acts also include subsequent amendments, which devolved further powers to the administrations: In Northern Ireland, the powers of the Northern Ireland Assembly do not cover reserved matters or excepted matters. Its deepest point is 230 metres (126 fathoms; 755 feet), making it the second deepest loch in Scotland after Loch Morar. Prior to the passage of the Wales Act 2017, issues were only devolved if outlined in the Government of Wales Act 1998 or the Government of Wales Act 2006. We have also tried to improve help and guidance, with a new Guide to this website page, and clearer orange Help buttons to the lower left in all our viewers. The purpose of the text was to provide sufficient information for maps to be constructed by a suitably skilled cartographer. It covered the arable coastal strip from Golspie in the south, through Brora and Dunrobin Castle, to what became Helmsdale fishing village in the north. Other energy operators in Larne include B9 Energy (a renewable energy development company). In other cases, these maps have different annotations, marks or paper tone, which may be preferred as copies. It shows how striking the changes have been in the Scottish landscape during the 20th century, particularly due to widespread afforestation and expanding towns and cities. The gazetteer provides a very comprehensive list of names for rural areas. The project forms part of the Know Your Place West of England Project, and has allowed us to fill gaps in our holdings for Devon with British Library maps, so our online presentation is now more complete. The maps can be viewed using a clickable map, as a georeferenced overlay (allowing comparison to modern Google or Bing layers), and using an ordered list. The Scotland Act contains numerous exceptions to the reserved powers concerning insolvency. The Stevenson family also served as engineers to the Northern Lighthouse Board, and drafted plans and profiles of lighthouses. They were generally published by private companies, including G.W. During the 18th century many Scots-Irish emigrated to America from the port of Larne. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string. The 1:25,000 series provides an excellent regional overview of the 1940s and 1950s landscape, and illustrates features such as woodland, roads, railways, field boundaries, footpaths, settlements and farms. From Lochend to Fort Augustus and back, he covered the 77km (48 miles) in 77 minutes at an average speed of 60km/h (37mph). These include three volumes of estate plans, relating to Caerlaverock in Dumfries-shire (1775-76), Earlstoun in Kirkcudbrightshire and Dumfries-shire (1800-1815), and Dunskey in Wigtownshire (1804). Many of these maps are folded, fragile or from special collections, that have only recently been possible to scan. Loch Ness is best known for claimed sightings of the cryptozoological Loch Ness Monster, also known affectionately as "Nessie" (Scottish Gaelic: Niseag). We have also georeferenced this Hills edition so it can be viewed as a seamless layer on top of Google satellite imagery or other modern mapping. 1900-25, juxtaposed with some building developments and roads which were very recent in 1939. The Atlas Maior was the most expensive book that could be acquired in the mid-17th century - a lavish and splendid item for display by its powerful and wealthy customers. Sheets covering more populated and rapidly changing areas were selectively revised from 1914 to the 1940s. Loch Ness lies along the Great Glen Fault, which forms a line of weakness in the rocks which has been excavated by glacial erosion, forming the Great Glen and the basins of Loch Lochy, Loch Oich and Loch Ness. They are particularly useful for showing the function of each building, and often the names of particular companies or institutions there. View the maps using a clickable map of Scotland, as a seamless layer on a modern satellite or map base, or as a list of sheets. Map all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML This is a list of lighthouses in Ireland.The Commissioners of Irish Lights are responsible for the majority of marine navigation aids around the island though a small number are maintained by local harbour authorities. The main list identifies those lighthouses in a clockwise direction starting with An exception allows the Senedd to create Wales-specific tribunals that are not concerned with reserved matters. The majority of these plans relate to harbour works in coastal towns, but there are significant numbers of maps too relating to bridges, canals, railways, and river engineering. Some of these expand our coverage of the Ordnance Survey's Ten-mile to the Inch (1:625,000) Planning maps series, initiated in the 1940s, and intended to form a survey of national life and resources. We are also grateful to the Dumfries Archival Mapping Project for scanning maps relating to Dalswinton Estate (1768) in Dumfries-shire and Earlstoun Estate (1769-1830) in Kirkcudbrightshire. They are also available as a Google maps overlay, allowing direct comparison to present-day air photography and mapping. Some place names and descriptive topographic terms, titles, compass roses, abbreviations, legends, revision and publication details, and supporting marginal information were all re-written and printed in German. 3. It has the eighth largest Island population in Scotland. The maps are very useful for local history, allowing almost every feature in the landscape to be shown. The special series maps include some of the very attractive Ordnance Survey One-Inch to the mile Tourist Series, special Administrative District Maps of Glasgow, as well as geological and soil maps. 2. 'Nuisance' tourists are no longer welcome in this European city. An island-on-an-island, Gozo is considered by Maltese people to be the isles rural, culturally dense sister destination. Johnston and Edward Stanford. The river's name probably derives from an old Celtic word meaning 'roaring one'. [5] The flag of the new Kingdom was formally chosen on 17 April 1707, two weeks before the Acts of Union of 1707 were to take effect. The 1981 temporary exhibition was The Flight of Rudolf Hess 1941.[4]. The southern end is fed by the River Oich, which runs from Loch Oich. There are boundaries showing landownership (1804-1817), Police Wards (1822-1848), Sanitary Districts (1864-1880), Municipal Wards (1852-1902), and Registration Districts (1865-1902). We have updated our home page, viewers and footers in response to user feedback. First established as an inhabitable space by a group of villagers, life in this seven kilometre stretch of land off the coast of the Riviera didnt come to full fruition until the late 19th century. These powers were not devolved after the Belfast Agreement. Kirk's survey of farms in Golspie and Loth parishes included some of the estate's richest arable land. Hilly ranges bleed into sandy coasts that attract boats of visitors in the summer months. The ancient Greeks also knew of the coast of Antrim and Ptolemy, the 2nd century AD astronomer and geographer, referred to Islandmagee on one of his maps. The initial driver behind the series was a military one, but it was recognised that the scale had a steadily growing public value particularly for cyclists and motorists. See world news photos and videos at ABCNews.com There is an RNLI lifeboat station on the northern shore near Drumnadrochit, which has been operational since 2008 and was the first non-coastal RNLI station. The National Museum of Flight is Scotland's national aviation museum, at East Fortune Airfield, just south of the village of East Fortune, Scotland. But in contrast, it shows relief as brown hachures - lines following the direction of the slope, with their thickness indicating steepness. If funded at 550 million, it would store 5 million cubic meters of water near Dores. If you click/tap on the 'Show Coordinates' tab in the footer, or hold the ALT button down and click/tap, these Trench Map Coordinates appear in a popup box for copying. For the Canadian law, see, Devolution of powers within the United Kingdom, Official guidance (published by the Cabinet Office). The georeferencing is quick and fun, and you can also: Our new historical map application allows anyone to include historical maps of Great Britain in their own websites. It takes its name from the River Ness, which flows from the northern end. The flag's official use came to an end in 1801 with the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. All were commissioned by landowners to plan agricultural improvement, including enclosure, drainage, new roads, and consolidation of farms, as well as mining. Parish and county names have been added to the transcribed names to make the names easier to tell apart and to provide locational context. [25], In July 1966, Brenda Sherratt became the first person to swim the length of the loch. Glamping. Trench maps are a primary source for studying the battlefields of the Western Front, and the location of enemy positions and defences. During the 19th century, this was Ordnance Survey's preferred method of indicating the height of the ground, printing the Hills edition maps from two separate copper plates. After three years' of scanning, and 89,800 sheets later, we have now completed adding this large series online. At 56km2 (22sqmi), it is the second-largest Scottish loch by surface area after Loch Lomond, but due to its great depth it is the largest by volume in the British Isles. The earliest maps in the collection are by Peter May (1724/33-1795), working for the Commissioners for the Forfeited Annexed Estates, and his nephew George Brown, who trained under May. (2001). & W. Emslie (1898-1941), educational maps for school room use, recreational maps for hunting, maps associated with particular meetings, including the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Aberdeen, and a map of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh (1933). that Eilean Muireach may have been a hunting lodge, with Eilean Nan Con the home for the hunting dogs. Admiralty Charts show many coastal features in good detail, and are also useful in predating the work of Ordnance Survey for many northern counties before the 1880s. [6], Loch Ness has one small island, Cherry Island (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Muireach, meaning Murdoch's Island), at the southwestern end of the loch. Other buildings house various exhibits including a Green Goddess, and an AEC Matador used by the RAF in Malta. [42], A number of shops can be found along Larne Main Street, Dunluce Street, Laharna Retail Park, and large supermarkets off the Harbour Highway near the harbour. An emphasis on expanding geographic and topographic knowledge and detail from the 16th to the 18th centuries, was often replaced by a growing interest in the emerging sciences and physical environment in the 19th century. Read further information about the Land Utilisation Survey. There was no revision of topographic detail, but the sheets were metricated, enlarged from 1:126,720 to 1:100,000, with updated German titles, marginalia and legends. Avoiding overtourism may be the driving force in getting us to explore parts of the continent we werent aware existed. You can alter your altitude, tilt and orientation to explore any one of our 600 georeferenced map layers draped over a 3D landscape. This military map series at 1:25,000 was rapidly completed in the early years of the Second World War. The bold style of the maps and their attractive, informative, hand-colouring allow easy interpretation for a wide range of uses. We have also georeferenced a selection of 200 charts, so that they can be viewed as zoomable overlays on a Bing map or satellite layer or in our Side by side viewer. The maps show changes brought in by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1947, the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Acts of 1949 and 1958, as well as some more localised changes. Including the island in your next Highland holiday would be no mistake for the views alone. On the eastern side of the inlet is a peninsula called Islandmagee. View a list of all sheets or search using a graphic index. Only one-third of the entire length is man-made, the rest being formed by Loch Dochfour, Loch Ness, Loch Oich, and Loch Lochy, with the man-made canals running parallel with rivers such as the River Oich.[10]. This includes the main set of maps of Scotland from the NLS Marischal Collection, named after George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal of Scotland (1692/3 - 1778). Mackay claims that while these legends are not the "true" origin of the name, that many places in the district have names associated with "The Tales of the Sons of Uisneach", and that the same tales have Conachar MacNessa's mother as the river goddess Ness. This new resource highlights some of the most useful maps for local history research, with summary information about their content, and links to further information. Most of the revision was of new buildings and roads, with information obtained variously from One-Inch to the mile revision material, recent 25 inch to the mile revision, and some special surveys. In 1971 the museum was given a Supermarine Spitfire XVI by the Ministry of Defence. Depending on the place, subject and time period, different maps may be more useful, and these are explained. Collectively they represent the detail of the colonial landscape of India in the first half of the 20th century. They illustrate a very wide range of natural and man-made features for the first time. [13], Loch Ness takes its name from the River Ness which flows from the loch's northern end. The Ordnance Survey 25 inch to the mile maps are immensely valuable for local history. James Robertson's Maps of Jamaica can be viewed using a clickable map, and a georeferenced overlay, or in a side-by-side viewer (allowing comparison to modern Google or Bing layers), or via individual map sheets. Another early proposal for the Union Jack, consisting of a white St Andrew's saltire with blue fimbriation superimposed over a red St George's cross on a field of white. Here are some of the most exceptional secret islands in Europe: Lastovo lies somewhere between the northern tip of Puglia, and the southern end of Croatias famous island collective, the Dalmatian Coast. This is a specific reservation in Scotland and a general reservation in Wales. This viewer allows a selection of boundaries traced from maps of Edinburgh to be interactively explored. The Parliament of the United Kingdom has granted legislative power to the Scottish Parliament and the Senedd through the Scotland Act 1998 and the Government of Wales Act 2006 respectively. The new viewers are built upon OpenLayers 3 and are compatible with all current release standards-compliant web browsers. In the 13th Century the Scots Bissett family built Olderfleet Castle at Curran Point. Just browse to the map you want to purchase, and select the button. These are the earliest OS maps to comprehensively show house numbers, and they also show parcel numbers (to uniquely reference all land parcels or areas) and their related acreages. This is in addition to walking through the de Havilland Comet and Jetstream 31 fuselage which were already in the museum collections. In the georeferenced maps viewer, you can save a GeoJSON file of drawn features, for easy onward editing in geographic viewers or software. The maps depict all aspects of Highland estate management, including agricultural improvement, enclosure, drainage and embankments, the planning of settlements such as Beauly, the leasing of farms and grazings, the allocation of land for crofts, and land ownership disputes. Certain powers relating to infrastructure planning, the constitutional matters listed in Schedule 5 of the 1998 Act, import and export controls, external trade, Northern Ireland-related legislation of the UK Parliament. We have added a layer of Bartholomew half-inch to the mile mapping for Great Britain (1897-1909). We have added 450 new printed maps of Scotland dating over the last five centuries online, almost doubling the number of maps of the whole of Scotland we now have on our website. We have added 100 more charts of Scottish coasts and waters, doubling the number of sea charts we have online. James Robertson was born on the island of Yell in Shetland, and emigrated to Jamaica where he owned a sugar plantation and worked as a surveyor. The A2 road or 'Antrim coast road' which runs along the Antrim coast, and passes through the scenic Glens of Antrim, also serves the town. The project has included first edition OS 25 inch to the mile maps covering the county, and more detailed OS town plans at 1:500 scale for all the towns in Devon with more than 4,000 people: Barnstaple, Bideford, Brixham, Crediton, Dartmouth, Dawlish, Exeter, Exmouth, Ilfracombe, Newton Abbot, Plymouth, Tavistock, Tiverton, Torquay and Totnes. The construction of new roads, railways, and bridges, and their development over time is also well-represented. The five feet to the mile or 1:1,056 scale covered the capital in 729 sheets, based on a revision and survey of 1891-5. Some of these maps were typically printed within atlases, encyclopaedias, geographical grammars, guide-books, and gazetteers, whilst others were intended as wall maps for educational use or display. This was the first aircraft collected by any museum in the United Kingdom. [10] The Flag of Somerset County, Maryland, briefly used from 1694, was revived after being rediscovered in 1958. To commemorate the International Year of Soils 2015, we are delighted to have collaborated with the James Hutton Institute to present online a set of detailed soil maps covering cultivated parts of Scotland. 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