1:2,500 County Series
The first maps at 1:2,500 (roughly 25 inches to the mile, or roughly one
square inch to one acre) were Published in 1855 with coverage of the
cultivated parts of Great Britain being completed in 1896. By then, a Almost every man-made feature of any significance is displayed on these maps
which thus form a definitive record of the changing landscape of Britain
since the middle of the 19th century. They are of considerable importance to
historians (although this would have been inconceivable to their creators).
The detail zooms in to house-level and offers a wealth of additional
information concerning land usage, communications and boundaries. For
genealogists they are of particular use and interest. Not only do they offer
countless research clues which no other source can match but they also
reveal every nuance of the landscape inhabited by past generations, so
helping to explain many of the preoccupations and limitations that ruled
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