Historical Mapping

Landmark's digital archive is the UK's largest comprising over 1 million Ordnance Survey historical maps. The historical maps give a complete step-by-step picture of land use changes that have occurred between the 1840's and the present day and are available individually through Promap or as a complete set through our Envirocheck service. Each map is site-centred for ease of comparison and overlaid with the current National Grid so that historical features can be accurately identified and located on to modern mapping. Historical maps are available at scales of 1:10,560/1:10,000, 1:2,500 and 1:1,250 scales.

What does Landmark's historical map archive contain?

Unique to Landmark, the historical map pack contains the following data sets as standard:

• County Series c.1843 to c.1948; 1:2,500 & 1:10,560
• National Grid Series c.1950 to c.1995; 1:1,250, 1:2,500 & 1:10,000
• SIMs, SUSIs & Large-Scale National Grid Data c.1947 to c.1995; 1:1,250 & 1:2,500
• 10k Colour Raster maps c.1997 to c.2006; 1:10,000
• Historical Town Plans c.1848 to c.1910; 1:500, 1:528, 1:1,056, 1:2,640 and 1:5,280
• Russian Military Mapping c.1950 to c.1997; 1:5,000, 1:10,000 and 1:25,000 More »
• Historical Aerial Photographs c.1944 to c.1951; 1:1,250 and 1:10,560 More »

Historical Town Plans c.1848 to c.1910; approximate scale 1:500

Historical Town Plans are Pre World War II Ordnance Survey County Series maps produced from a survey of towns with a population of over 4,000. These maps are primarily at a scale of 1:500 and provide highly detailed information including features of sanitary interest such as privies, cess pits, cow houses, interior ground floor layout of public buildings and functions of larger industrial premises.
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Historical Building Plans c.1886 to c.1970; approximate scale 1:500

Information rich, detailed, colour plans of 54 UK towns and cities. More »

Case Study - Pell Frischmann

When preparing a recent desk study, Pell Frischmann had initially ordered a Coal Authority report for their site which stated that the site was in a zone of likely influence regarding mineshafts, although none were marked on the accompanying map. An Envirocheck report was ordered and the 1:2,500 Ordnance Survey historical maps brought to their immediate attention the presence of old mining shafts to the south east of the site immediately adjacent. This enabled them to design the site investigation that followed the desk study with the presence of shafts in the area in mind.

The Historical Maps can be accessed online at www.landmarkinfo.co.uk/histmappack when an Envirocheck with Historical Maps is ordered online. Alternatively if you select the email delivery option you will be sent a URL for direct access to your maps.