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Old ordnance survey maps help
« on: Tuesday 05 August 14 12:15 BST (UK) »
I'm not sure which maps to order for:
1893- South Leith, Edinburgh
1865-Kinghorn, Fife
1923-Douglaswater, Carmichael, Lanark
1893-Stoneyburn,Crawford, Lanarkshire
1893-Motherwell,Dalziel,Lanark
1859-Lettershaws, Crawfordjohn,Lanark
Rigside, Lanark, Scotland

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Re: Old ordnance survey maps help
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 05 August 14 12:19 BST (UK) »
Have you tried looking at these OS maps online at the National Library of Scotland:
http://maps.nls.uk/os/
Crackett, Cracket, Webb, Turner, Henderson, Murray, Carr, Stavers, Thornton, Oliver, Davis, Hall, Anderson, Atknin, Austin, Bainbridge, Beach, Bullman, Charlton, Chator, Corbett, Corsall, Coxon, Davis, Dinnin, Dow, Farside, Fitton, Garden, Geddes, Gowans, Harmsworth, Hedderweek, Heron, Hedley, Hunter, Ironside, Jameson, Johnson, Laidler, Leck, Mason, Miller, Milne, Nesbitt, Newton, Parkinson, Piery, Prudow, Reay, Reed, Read, Reid, Robinson, Ruddiman, Smith, Tait, Thompson, Watson, Wilson, Youn

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Re: Old ordnance survey maps help
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 05 August 14 14:45 BST (UK) »
Hi safw

This is also a great collection of maps for the Edinburgh area www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_MAPS/0_maps_thumbnails.htm

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Re: Old ordnance survey maps help
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 09 August 14 08:44 BST (UK) »
I'm not sure which maps to order

It will depend on what scale you want. There are old OS maps at one inch to the mile, six inches to the mile, and twenty-five inches to the mile.

The best thing to do is to go to the online map collection at the National Library of Scotland and have a really good rake about. You will be able to find out which sheets cover the areas you are interested in at which scale and in which years. http://maps.nls.uk/index.html
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.