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Just posted on another post (interpret mining plans) some details of the online archive OS map resource available from the National Library of Scotland. I am not sure if this has been posted here before, apologies if so, but it will do no harm to bring it to the attention again of Secret Leeds users.

This is from a project run by National Library of Scotland's. They have already digitised a full suite of Scottish OS (and other) maps. They have a complete selection of 6" to a mile maps of England, see here for the Leeds area

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=12&la ... &point=0,0

Click on the area of interest, then select the map from the RHS pop-up (for the same are there are maps published in 1894, 1909, 1933 and 1944, though be careful with the dates as the surveys were often completed some years before)

They are progressively working there way from the SE corner of England north and west with the 25" to a mile maps (which have fantastic detail)

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=6&lat ... &point=0,0

As an example this is the River Thames from the Houses of Parliament downstream to the Hungerford Bridge and including the area I guess we would know as Waterloo (the waterfront business so close to the heart of the city are an age away from the modern city of London)

http://maps.nls.uk/view/103313045

Gateway to their resource is here:

http://maps.nls.uk/

Enjoy and consider it Scotland's gift to Secret Leeds

Hi grumpytramp .

I agree, the NLS website is an excellent one and one that I use a lot.

The 'A Vision of Britain through Time' website is also a good one, though it can be a bit difficult to negotiate the way through. This is the link to the Leeds section in that website:- http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/620 which has interesting data to be found though that.

And if you use this link you can overlay a modern map, slide the "blue dot to the left.

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17 ... 1&layers=6

Been using it for a while, during some research into the old route of the 'Great North Road', as it passes through the old West Riding

There's a few forgotten sections still in existence, not just downgraded, but actual old tarmac
Ie;
1. At 'Red House Junction', where Wakefield Road (A638) intersects, there's the old road swinging off alongside the southbound (modern) carriageway)

2. Opposite the 'Brotherton'Fox' is the original stone kerbing a few feet back from the present road, where the 'GNR' swept round into the village



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Yes, the NLS site is great. Can't wait till the 25" maps reach Leeds.

If only those fire insurance maps on the British Library site were as easy to access. Great resource, but very fiddly by comparison.