Catalogue description Ordnance Survey: 1:1,250 Southampton Survey Maps
Reference: | OS 44 |
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Title: | Ordnance Survey: 1:1,250 Southampton Survey Maps |
Description: |
These bromide copies of master survey documents form the basis of the boundary entries for the 1:1,250 scale resurvey of Southampton in 1947. They include features which do not appear on the published large-scale plans of the town in the post-World War II period, particularly military transit and prisoner-of-war camps. |
Date: | 1947 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Physical description: | 6 flat sheet(s) |
Administrative / biographical background: |
Southampton was an important embarkation port for troops engaged in the Normandy landings of 1944, and a receiving port for German prisoners-of-war. |
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