Early Ordance Survey Maps

nollaig · 09-03-2006 12:50pm #1

Does anybody know what the letter h stood for in the earlier maps?

JamesM · 09-03-2006 10:20pm

nollaig wrote:

Does anybody know what the letter h stood for in the earlier maps?

I know nothing about OS maps, but could it be Hydro, Hydrant - Water.

Victor · 18-03-2006 11:12am

Context?

nollaig · 18-03-2006 12:04pm

Context?

I was just reading the map (or trying too!). It was the 1841 OS map. And I saw the letter h, I assumed it was meant house but when there wasnt a load of h's, maye it was something different or maybe it was because this house was more alone than the others.

Are the houses represented in these maps?

Victor · 18-03-2006 12:07pm

What scale map? Can you scan a portion?

nollaig · 18-03-2006 3:51pm

What scale map?

How do you mean? I dont really understand maps that well tbh.

Can you scan a portion?

Wasnt even allowed to photycopy it in the libary so that is not possible

Victor · 18-03-2006 4:57pm

Victor wrote:

What scale map?

It might say "1:63,600" or "one inch to one mile" or some such. Does it cover whole counties or just parts of counties or individual streets?

nollaig · 19-03-2006 12:49am

It might say "1:63,600" or "one inch to one mile" or some such. Does it cover whole counties or just parts of counties or individual streets?

I havent a clue about the numbers part, I didnt really take any notice. It is of whole counties but you dont see the whole county on the one map, you see parts of the county (loosely broken into parishes, I guess)

Victor · 20-03-2006 1:25am

Hmmm, you won't be seeing any hydrants on that then.

JamesM · 20-03-2006 11:49pm

Victor wrote:

Hmmm, you won't be seeing any hydrants on that then.

Yea, in his first post, he didn't say how old the map was.

RobertFoster · 21-03-2006 12:03am

This might help, but like said before, the context could be an indication.

nollaig · 24-03-2006 2:45pm

Yeah, It means house.

I asked the auld lad about it and he says he remebers a bit of a house left in that spot when he was young.

No traces left of it now though.

Riamfada · 28-03-2006 3:29pm

I guessed House by the first post.

What else on a 19th century OS map dotted around a landscape would be titled "H" .

JamesM · 28-03-2006 11:06pm

Grimes wrote:

I guessed House by the first post.

What else on a 19th century OS map dotted around a landscape would be titled "H" .

That's very impressive

You were able to tell from the first post that it was a 19th century map and that he was talking about a country landscape instead of a city or town.

It would have been nice if someone :rolleyes: had told him when he first asked.

Early Ordance Survey Maps

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