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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Essex => Topic started by: Siouxzie on Wednesday 19 April 06 19:51 BST (UK)
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Hi,
Been googling without success. Has anyone found a good Map containing the parishes in Essex around the 1800's?
I need to know where Theydon Bois is, in relation to say Terling, or Thaxted or White Notley and I know Essex not one jot.
Thanks
Siouxzie
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Theydon Bois still exists
http://www.theydon.org.uk/index.htm
got lots of info and a location map.
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Thanks for that w105uk
I was after something rather bigger and including all the Essex parishes. There is a William Bearman in 1851 living there who has an outside possibility of being mine. Is Theydon Bois anywhere near Barking, do you know?
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its not that close to barking :(
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=544976&y=199458&z=5&sv=544976,199458&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&dn=798&ax=544976&ay=199458 (ftp://http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=544976&y=199458&z=5&sv=544976,199458&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&dn=798&ax=544976&ay=199458)
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its fairly close, Barking is nearer to London,
there is a web-site
www.old-maps.co.uk
but it is closed for maintenance at the moment :(
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Thanks both
Pinkcrush can't get your link to work, but then nothing is working smoothly for me today, must be the school holidays genealogical traffic jam :P
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try this link to multi map
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=500000.136142269&Y=200000.087835654&width=500&height=300&gride=544927.136142269&gridn=199157.087835654&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=freegaz&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&keepicon=true&zm=0&scale=500000&right.x=1&right.y=94
its got Barking on and shows the position of Theydon Bois
if he moved for work chances are he would have moved nearer to London
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For old maps, you could try:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.asp?sheetid=3286&mapx=575&mapy=1129&mapzm=2 (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.asp?sheetid=3286&mapx=575&mapy=1129&mapzm=2)
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15527 (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15527) (click on the map halfway down the page)
For modern maps,
http://maps.google.co.uk (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Theydon+Bois&spn=0.093652,0.326157&iwloc=A&hl=en)
www.streetmap.co.uk (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=544976&y=199458&z=5&sv=544976,199458&st=4&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&ax=544976&ay=199458)
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that's a good site Douglas
now on my list of favs
:) :)
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Glad it helped. I found a couple of the links from this site (which is mainly about Kelvedon Hatch):
http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/essext07.html
Another site which mentions Theydon Bois is:
http://essexpub.net/TheydonBois/theydonbois.htm
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Thanks Douglas
Loved the British History Online link
Siouxzie
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just put in a search on 'old maps essex' and you should get some good hits, I have done it with Hants. By the way Epping is no where near the other places you mention. I am an Essex Boy and used to cycle to Epping Forest as a kid, Epping Forest Old Oak PH is the birthplace of speedway in UK and the orginal track can still be made out. It also has a metal tank out side the entrance with a notice say please do not tease the otters, when you pull on the chain two otters appear (an otter is an essex word for a jug), useless info by interesting
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I have an image of an Essex map 1787. It has all the old spellings of town and village names. It is a fairly good resolution and has a file size about 1.4MB.
I can't recall where I got it from but I guess there could be some sort of copyright issue if I post it here.
I don't mind sending it by email to anyone that wants it......just ask.
Al.
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I Know that a map is nice to see the places but have you thought about a program called "parish locator". I don't know where I got it from, but it's freeware. You just punch in the name of a parish and then set a circumference in miles etc and it puts them all into perspective IE X is 9 Miles West of Y. what I have found handy is it gets away from being countycentric (a word I just made up :) ) and can lead you into unexplored avenues.
Not as pretty, but very handy as you can centre it on your known reference point then using it spread out to surrounding parishes.
As I say I don't know where I got it from, but D M Bennet who wrote it should be well and truly congratulated for creating such a usefull tool for research.
Got luck in in all your endeavors