When you want a map from the past ……………..

Now of all the historical resources I trawl over in a day, the maps offered up by Digital Archive Association are both a pleasure to use and extremely useful.*

Canals around Manchester, 1830

Over the years I have bought into a wide range of the maps, which come on a CD and are supported by detailed explanatory notes.

Given that much of what I do centres on Manchester and Salford, I fell on the series of maps  of the twin cities, and Lancashire, and include both OS maps, Goads Fire Insurance maps of Manchester and Adshead’s fine coloured map of Manchester in 1851.

But there are also maps of Cheshire, London, Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Bradford’s 1830  Inland Navigation of England and Wales, showing the canals of the country and supporting information.

Mortgramit Square, Woolwich, 1872

The earliest maps date from the 1500s and run up to the beginning of the last century.

They cost from £20 and can be delivered within a few days.

So that it is, I just now await the two I have offered of Liverpool in the 1840s and 1890s, and the one of North Yorkshire.

Less an advert .... more a fine historical resource.

Picture; detail from Bradford’s The Inland Navigation of England and Wales, 1830, and detail of  Mortgramit Square and Hare Street from the OS map of London, 1862-72, courtesy of Digital Archives Association http://www.digitalarchives.co.uk/

* Digital Archives Association, http://www.digitalarchives.co.uk/