Catalogue description Ordnance Survey: Boundaries Branch: Boundary Sketch Maps

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Details of OS 27
Reference: OS 27
Title: Ordnance Survey: Boundaries Branch: Boundary Sketch Maps
Description:

This series consists of skeleton maps drawn in manuscript and showing boundaries (mostly parish) and related ground features as originally recorded in the boundary remark books. The area covered was usually a parish or several adjoining parishes. The maps relate to English, Welsh and Scottish boundaries. There are many gaps in the maps relating to Kent and Northumberland, very few maps relating to Lancashire and no maps relating to Yorkshire. It is believed that these maps never in fact existed.
Date: 1843-1895
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 7289 flat sheet(s)
Access conditions: Open
Administrative / biographical background:

The boundary sketch maps, together with the boundary remark books (OS 26), were exhibited to the public in order that interested parties could comment on local boundaries. These comments were entered in the journals of inspection (OS 29).

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