Some links for web-sites about Maps .
These LINKS-Topics have been been compiled from the links submitted by RootsChatters.
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed. 
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www.yourmapsonline.org.uk
Over 150+ free downloadable old maps for the UK are available here.
FREE resource for researchers.
Every map is a fascimile scan of maps owned by me or by people like you and are freely available to aid your research.
All these maps and more are available on the YourMapsOnline CD-Rom - order via the website.
If you have any maps you would like to see on the site for sharing freely with others please feel free to contact me via the email links.
Baedeker's Old Guide Books
http://contueor.com/baedeker/great_britain/index2.htm
by Alan Gresley
Maps from across the Country Indexed by County all from 1910.
MAPCO : Map And Plan Collection Online
http://archivemaps.com/mapco/index.htm
MAPCO's aim is to provide genealogists, students and historians with free access to high quality scans of rare and beautiful antique maps and views.
The site displays a variety of highly collectable 18th and 19th century maps and plans of London and the British Isles, and also 19th century maps and engravings relating to Australia.
The MAPCO website is updated regularly, with new maps being displayed every month. Check back regularly to see what has been added.
The British Cartographic Society
A Directory of UK Map Collections
http://www.cartography.org.uk/Pages/Publicat/Ukdir/
The Directory has circa 400 entries which include:
National Libraries (British, Scottish & Welsh);
University Map Collections, and;
Local Authority Libraries with a map collection.
Scottish Maps
http://www.nls.uk/maps/index.html
http://www.ukvillages.co.uk/
This is a useful site for those, like myself, who are living outside the UK.
I have used it many times for maps and information on an area I am researching.
Kent maps
http://www.kent-opc.org/maps.html
Just got some really good maps of the Kent Registration Districts colour coded and showing the individual Parishes.
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/
It is a large scale Ordnance Survey Map for the whole of the UK from 1870, often showing individual houses and farms. It ties in well to the 1871 and 1881 census. Provides access to Britain's most extensive digital historical map archive. Find out where your ancestors used to live or check out what your neighbourhood looked like over a hundred years ago.
To locate a map, enter a place name, address or coordinate (OS Grid Reference) then click the Search button. Alternatively go to the County Gazetteer to select a place name.
http://www.magic.gov.uk/default.htm
I have found this useful for places in the UK, although it is far more detailed for environmetal reasons, I found it helpful because it details parishes & small villages.
http://www.abcounties.co.uk/
gives details of old and new county boundaries
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/
This site is useful if you would like a modern map of a street and location. Only for UK but it's nice to see how the area looks now, also useful if you are wanting to visit the area or street as gives local transport links.
http://www.multimap.com
http://www.reisenett.no/ekstern.html?url=http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/map1859.html
John Snow's Map of London 1859.
Hipkiss' scanned old maps
http://www.hipkiss.org/cgi-bin/maps.pl
Maps - Ryhiner Collection
http://www.stub.unibe.ch/maps/ryhiner/collection/index.php?group=volume
The University of Bern has put the Ryhiner Collection of
over 16000 high resolution images on-line: maps, town plans and topographical views from the 16th to the early 19th century online.
You can view the maps here (with zooming) or order your own copy.
The Gough Map of the UK - 1360
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/users/nnj/goughmap.htm
UK Genealogy Archives
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk
While looking for a county map I found this site - great old maps - click on map to zoom in for more detail.
Old London Maps
and views of the city from the sixtenneth to the nineteenth centuries.
http://www.oldlondonmaps.com/index.html
Committed to granting free access to scores of rare maps and images of London from the medieval period to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (Link contributed by Springbok)
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