This new set of pages provide easy, step-by-step instructions for how to bring our georeferenced maps into QGIS and ArcGIS, as well as into geojson.io and OpenStreetMap. The maps were attractively coloured with first-class roads in brown, water in blue, and woodland in green, creating a pleasing, clear and legible map. 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. It is also possible to fade the transparency and view different base maps. The 2011 United Kingdom census recorded Berwick's population as 12,043.. The earliest of these maps are nearly always the most detailed depictions of towns before the Ordnance Survey mapping from the 1840s. [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. Highland, Scotland . This includes two new 'hills' editions at one-inch to the mile scale, with relief shown by hachures (horizontal lines following the direction of the slope). 'Nuisance' tourists are no longer welcome in this European city. We have also changed the footer to mirror the main Library website, grouping the most useful information pages into clearer lists. For many of us, going on holiday is about switching off and escaping the hustle and bustle of everyday life. 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. It was built between 1807 and 1810 by Robert Stevenson on the Bell Rock (also known as Inchcape) in the North Sea, 11 miles (18 km) east of the Firth of Tay.Standing 35 metres (115 ft) tall, its light is visible from 35 statute miles (56 km) inland. The collections date back to 1909 when the Royal Scottish Museum acquired Percy Pilcher's Hawk glider. We are deeply grateful to Lovat Highland Estates, based in Beauly, and the North of Scotland Archaeological Society, for scanning and authorising the online display of a uniquely important set of over 400 estate maps. The bounding boxes of returned maps are shown when you hover over the map thumbnail in the Results panel on the right. They are particularly useful for showing the function of each building, and often the names of particular companies or institutions there. The maps show these boundaries are a clear, coloured overlay. You can zoom into the detail of the OS 25 inch maps using an interactive index map, and search by county, parish and a gazetteer of place names. It is a major passenger and freight roll-on roll-off port. [12] The town sprang up where the River Inver flows into Larne Lough. 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. 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. It complements our main Explore Georeferenced Maps application, where you can view the resulting georeferenced maps. 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 maps generally provide the most detailed coverage of these whole counties, prior to Ordnance Survey mapping from the later 19th century. The rural landscape of fields, woodland, lochs, rivers and streams is clearly depicted too. Earlier editions of the Times Atlas had been published from 1895, but this was the first Times world atlas with maps prepared by the Edinburgh Geographical Institute of John Bartholomew & Son Ltd. [citation needed]. 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. There were four main numbered editions, with various military and civilian forms, and with different ways of showing relief using hachures as well as hypsometric tints or layer colours. The series is made up of 7,486 map sheets. The parish/county information appears to the lower right of the screen (as illustrated). 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. Bacon & Co., John Bartholomew & Son, J. We have scanned a new hand-coloured one-inch series, covering all of Scotland and published on 132 sheets between 1856 and 1891. 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. This incident was raised in Parliament at the time.[20]. In the map images viewer we also have a new 'Print PDF' option which creates a default A4 landscape PDF file of your current map view. All towns, villages and cultivated rural areas were mapped, comprising over a third of the total land area of Scotland. Its correct proportions are 3:5. The civil parish is in the historic barony of Glenarm Upper.[7]. Larne takes its name from Latharna, a Gaelic territory or tath that was part of the Ulaid minor-kingdom of Dl nAraidi. 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 View a list of all sheets or search using a graphic index. Special Offers. Many of these world maps are from larger atlases by C. Ptolemy, H. Moll, W. & A.K. We have focused on Edinburgh initially as part of our collaborative work with the MESH Edinburgh Atlas project, and we plan to extend coverage geographically in the future. We have scanned all our sheets of this series, which were received by the Library in a folded form. The Parliament of Northern Ireland was abolished outright by the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973;[13] legislative competence was conferred instead on the Northern Ireland Assembly. Both series also show an underlying basic topography of railway lines, towns, churches, coastlines and civil parish boundaries. Bartholomew. Aircraft on display include many with Scottish connections, such as the Twin Pioneer built by Scottish Aviation at Prestwick, a Britten-Norman Islander in the colours of the Scottish Air Ambulance Service and a Druine Turbulent built in a house in Airdrie. This series was produced as an Outline (ie. Maps provide a wealth of information about woodland history, as well as on woodland archaeology, industry, management, and military use. The Stevenson family also served as engineers to the Northern Lighthouse Board, and drafted plans and profiles of lighthouses. These show the rural landscape in great detail - including farms, buildings, fields, woodland, roads, and rivers - dating from the 1750s to the 1840s. We have added new tools to allow easy drawing / tracing of features on our maps. 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. Together with parts of the neighbouring districts of Antrim and Newtownabbey and Causeway Coast and Glens, it forms the East Antrim constituency for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly. This could not be displayed in Edinburgh and was stored in a hangar at East Fortune. We are very grateful to David Rumsey for supporting the scanning and wider dissemination of this atlas. We have added details of the parish and county under the map cursor, when looking at maps of England, Scotland or Wales at zoom level 13 or higher in our Explore Georeferenced Maps viewer. The new viewer is accompanied by detailed information on the history of these administrative units, significant legislation that has affected them, and cartographic information sources which show the development of these units over time. In some cases these new sheets are useful for showing the variant states of these maps, including those which show railway additions, updates to towns, county boundary sheet changes, security deletions, administrative boundary changes, as well as related variant information in the map margins. Formal theory. Its light can be seen from 23 nmi (43 km) away. For example, in Scotland, the funding of Scottish Gaelic television is controlled by the Scottish Government, but broadcasting is a reserved matter, and while energy is a reserved matter, planning permission for power stations is devolved. [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 new web resource shows the locations and details of over 9,000 mills in Scotland in the 19th century. Also included are some early proposed plans for bridges, and tunnels. A post shared by Ian Cylkowski (@iancylkowskiphotography). This small set of 220 maps of Scotland, also includes maps of Scottish towns, counties and regions, and some coastal charts. 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. The flag consists of the red cross of Saint George, patron saint of England, superimposed on the Saltire of Saint Andrew, patron saint of Scotland. Don't get it confused with Oronsay which another island situated just west of Jura. This also includes estate maps scanned by the Dumfries Archival Mapping Project, who we are very pleased to be collaborating with. The Scotland Act contains numerous exceptions to the reserved powers concerning insolvency. 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. 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. 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 Results panel also has a clearer header, with details of the scales of returned maps and the date filter range. All towns, villages and cultivated rural areas were mapped, comprising over a third of the total land area of Scotland. 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. Loch Ness (/lx ns/; Scottish Gaelic: Loch Nis [lx ni]) is a large freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands extending for approximately 37 kilometres (23 miles) southwest of Inverness. 6 February 1975: Colette Brown, a Catholic, was found by the side of the Killyglen Road after being shot by Loyalists. We have put together a new guide on Maps for Researching House and Building History which highlights some of the most relevant maps to use as documentary sources. In the United Kingdom, devolved matters are the areas of public policy where the Parliament of the United Kingdom has devolved its legislative power to the national assemblies of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, while reserved matters and excepted matters are the areas where the Parliament retains exclusive power to legislate.. There is no law-making body for any regionally devolved area. Lighthouses Windmills. Read further information about Claudius Ptolemy and the Geography. It recorded many newly discovered Roman remains for the first time. In the 1930s and 1940s, the original Ordnance Survey's One-Inch to the Mile Popular edition mapping of 1921-30 was re-issued with selective updates from revisions made primarily in the 1930s. [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. Trench maps are a primary source for studying the battlefields of the Western Front, and the location of enemy positions and defences. The 25 inch to the mile series (1855-1882), is the earliest detailed OS mapping for all the inhabited regions of Scotland. Gozo is also a popular find with divers who relish traversing its many caves. The Isle of Mull (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Eilean Muileach [ telan mulx]) or just Mull (English and Scots: ; Scottish Gaelic: Muile ()) is the second-largest island of the Inner Hebrides (after Skye) and lies off the west coast of Scotland in the council area of Argyll and Bute.. The Larne UDA blamed the IRA for the attack. The museum expanded significantly in 1981 as a result of the sale by auction of much of the Strathallan Collection of aircraft. 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. The recording of land use was carried out by volunteers, particularly schoolchildren and students, using Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile field sheets. [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. The inhabitants cried out "Tha loch 'nis ann, tha loch 'nis ann!" We are pleased to make available the earliest editions of Ordnance Survey National Grid maps covering the Edinburgh environs. Military and related sites were added in black, but some of these were subsequently erased from the final printed maps. We have added 10,519 sheets online showing Victorian town plans in England and Wales (1840s-1890s). Maps provide many insights into historic landscapes and environments, showing different ways of generating power, less polluting lifestyles and means of travel, subjects like fossil fuel extraction and consumption, as well as coastal erosion and sea-level rise. Its white sandy beaches and amber sunsets make it the perfect place to escape the madness of the party island. The Gazetteer can also be downloaded in accessible formats for onward use and research. It was Ordnance Survey's earliest attempt to produce a one-inch to the mile map with coloured topographic detail: water in blue, woodland in green, the first and second class roads in burnt sienna, hachures in brown, and contours in red. Additional permanent exhibitions were opened in recent years in other wartime buildings on the site, with a hands-on interactive gallery about flight called "Fantastic Flight" and another dealing with the history of the site called "Fortunes of War". 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. A number of others such as perch and roach have been introduced in the Loch or Caledonian Canal with various levels of success. This is the latest out-of-copyright mapping covering most of mainland Britain. 3906. 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. This page was last edited on 21 August 2022, at 21:55. Volume VI of the work was devoted to maps of Scotland and Ireland, bringing forward the original mapping of Scotland from the work of Timothy Pont, first published in Blaeus Atlas novus of 1654, into their final published form. We have also added a number of variant states of these OS one-inch maps, including those with railway additions, minor corrections, different printings, and different colour. They cover 20% of the British landscape at 1:10,560 scale (showing useful information about fields, farms, roads, railways and woodland), and 16 towns/cities in England and Wales at 1:1,250 scale (with excellent detail of urban topography including buildings and industrial premises). p33-34 London: Merlin. All the more intriguing for tourists keen to catch a glimpse of Europes starriest skies (scientifically-confirmed, no less), and get in on some real sun. The Great Reform Act Plans and Reports provide detailed maps and related information for 75 towns in Scotland. 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. Boston's long standing Scots-Irish roots can be traced to Larne. "), and so it was named "Loch Nis". 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). It opened in 1878, was closed to passengers in 1933 and finally completely closed in 1950. The devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales The maps can be viewed using a clickable map, as georeferenced overlays and using an ordered list. In the United Kingdom, devolved matters are the areas of public policy where the Parliament of the United Kingdom has devolved its legislative power to the national assemblies of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, while reserved matters and excepted matters are the areas where the Parliament retains exclusive power to legislate. In other cases, these maps have different annotations, marks or paper tone, which may be preferred as copies. 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. From the United States and Canada to Norway and Iceland, these are the 12 best places to see the northern lights around the world. In practice, the difference is minor as Parliament is responsible for all the powers on both lists and must give its consent to devolve them. The aerial photography was flown by the Royal Air Force, primarily in Spitfire and Mosquito fighter aeroplanes, but it was intended for post-war reconstruction and planning. In memory of a battle in the town of Musa Qala in Afghanistan in 2006, involving the Royal Irish Regiment, a new regimental march, composed by Chris Attrill and commissioned by Larne Borough Council, was gifted to the regiment on Saturday 1 November 2008 in Larne, during an event in which the regiment was presented with "the Freedom of the Borough". Records for over 2000 plans relating to historical engineering in Scotland from the Stevenson archive can now be searched online using our new map-based viewer. We have georeferenced a selection of these maps, to allow them to be easily compared with other maps and the present day. The museum is significant in that it is the only UK national museum still collecting the history of commercial aviation. 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. The area around County Antrim itself, however, was not part of the official 17th century Plantation; instead many Scottish settlers arrived in the area through private settlement in the 17th century (as they had also been doing for centuries before). All were commissioned by landowners to plan agricultural improvement, including enclosure, drainage, new roads, and consolidation of farms, as well as mining. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string. 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. [6], The principal alternative for consideration was a version of the flag with the saltire of Saint Andrew lying on top of that of Saint George, called the "Scots union flag as said to be used by the Scots", but this was rejected. These charts were drafted to support expanding merchant shipping and fisheries, for ferries and steamer travel, as well as intermittent naval concerns. An initiative developed by the Northern Lighthouse Board to promote and drive tourism to Scotlands coastal communities and increase awareness of the role and history of NLBs unique heritage. Search using a graphic index, or view a list of all sheets. 2) and "minimum" reserved matters (sch. In the 13th Century the Scots Bissett family built Olderfleet Castle at Curran Point. These maps are the most detailed topographic mapping covering England and Wales from the 1840s to the 1950s. Tourists can expect to taste some of the best Mediterranean food of their lifetimes through the islands assortment of local eateries. 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. Huts & Cabins. 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. 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. Its deepest point is 230 metres (126 fathoms; 755 feet),[3][4] making it the second deepest loch in Scotland after Loch Morar. 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. The Times Survey Atlas of the World (1920) was a landmark folio world atlas, defining the world and its countries in detail for the period after the First World War. Sunrise over Loch Ness, taken at Urquhart Castle. The quarter-inch to the mile series provides an overview of significant landscape features, including larger settlements, railways, and roads. There are also a set of Horizontal and Vertical Sections. [51], Larne F.C., a professional association football club, plays in the NIFL Premiership. We would be happy to receive feedback to maps@nls.uk. The Historic Maps Subscription API conforms with international web-mapping standards, and so the layers are simple to incorporate inside your own web mapping applications with demonstration viewers and code. There is also supporting information about mills in Scotland, the project workflow to create the mills data, and how to download the mills data. This addition of 5,921 Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 "double-sheets" (ie. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is an airborne mapping technique, which uses a scanning laser to allow highly detailed representations of relief or terrain models to be generated. According to the Norse historian Snorri Sturluson, Connor, King of Ireland, defeated Orkney Vikings at Ulfreksfjord in 1018. The new search interface integrates our previous five separate search applications into a faster and clearer interface. GSGS 3906, 1940-43 home page, OS National Grid maps of Scotland home page, Strike For Freedom: Slavery, Civil War and the Frederick Douglass Family in the Walter O Evans Collection, Frederic Douglass in Edinburgh map viewer, Black Abolitionists in Edinburgh map viewer, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Books of Reference listed by county and parish, Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile, 1888-1913, series covering Great Britain in 62 sheets, Bartholomew's Revised Half-Inch Maps of Great Britain, 1940-47, Georeferenced 25 inch first edition layer, 1873-1888, OS Town Plans of England and Wales, 1840s-1890s, Georeferenced Town Plan layer, SW England, 1880s, topographic mapping covering England and Wales from the 1840s to the 1950s, Maxwells of Monreith Estate Maps and Plans, 1777-1778, 2015 Historic Land-use Assessment (HLA Map) layer, further information about the Soil Survey, zoomable overlay on a Bing map or satellite layer, seamless layer on a modern satellite or map base, 950 charts covering Scottish coastal waters, zoomable overlays on a Bing map or satellite layer, Ordnance Survey National Grid maps at 1:1,250 scale covering central London, Ordnance Survey National Grid maps covering the Edinburgh environs, trench maps of the Western Front (307 maps), topographic mapping covering all of England and Wales from the 1840s to the 1950s, newly added one-inch 2nd edition (Hills), 1885-1903 series, 25 inch 2nd and later edition maps of Scotland, Six-inch 2nd and later edition maps of Scotland, OS National Grid 1944-1991 records for Scotland, geo-referenced bathymetrical charts of Scottish lochs, Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of Scotland, Kirk's survey of farms in Golspie and Loth parishes, Military Antiquities of the Romans in North Britain, Ordnance Survey one-inch to the mile maps, Ordnance Survey quarter-inch to the mile maps, Bartholomew half-inch to the mile mapping, Family Portrait: Scots-Italians map viewer, Search and view trench map coordinates in our, Compare OS six-inch (1888-1913) maps with the new LiDAR DTM layer in our. 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 area was known in Irish as Inbhear an Latharna ("rivermouth/estuary of Latharna")[13] and was later anglicised as Inver Larne or simply Inver. A geolocation option has been added, so you can choose to display your current device location, and a wider range of current and historical base map layers can be selected. The Land Utilisation Survey was the first systematic and comprehensive depiction of land cover and use in Scotland (1931-1935), under the superintendence of L. Dudley Stamp. Port-Cros National Park is the main draw for tranquil nature lovers, encompassing most of the island's mainland and preserved by the government down to every detail. 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. These estate maps date from the 1750s to the 1840s and show the rural landscape of farms, buildings, fields, woodland, roads, and rivers in great detail. [21][22], Locks on Caledonian Canal in Fort Augustus, Loch Ness in the background. 24 August 1980: Rodney McCormick a Catholic, was shot dead by the, 11 July 2000: Andrew Cairns a UVF member, was killed by members of the UDA. The town is within the small parish of the same name. Search all the Stevenson plans (records and images): View a set of thumbnail images of these maps with a, View the Ordnance Survey Half-Inch to the mile, Scotland - 1908-1918 - with, Browse the Post Office Directory maps within our, compare our historic maps directly with present day satellite images, share, use and georeference the maps in more detail, view the maps alongside other georeferenced historical maps of the same area, help improve search methods to find them in future, Used as a backdrop for your own markers or geographic data. It is an artificial island, known as a crannog, and was likely constructed during the Iron Age. It includes lighthouses which are no longer in use as a light but are still standing. We have added a further 224 estate maps online, excellent for showing detail of the rural landscape. These collectively cover 22 towns, and allow change over time in urban areas to now be seen more clearly. 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