![]() The original maps were published in numbered sheets and of course some locations happen to be in the middle of a sheet whilst others could be right on the edge of a sheet. The New Popular Edition captures all this ‘raw material’ which planners andĭevelopers in subsequent decades were to use, for better or for worse, toįRITH historical Ordnance Survey maps are reproductions of first edition maps prepared by the Ordnance Survey in the late 19th and early 20th Century. Note also the new of symbols describing with the equally recent proliferation Ministry of TransportĬlassifications were now specified for roads, which were now numbered. Road was now the dominant method of transport. These maps, produced just after the Second World War, show that travel by ![]() Network remained intact, but Dr Beeching’s axe was only a decade or so away,Īs was the opening of Britain’s first motorway, the M1. OpenĬountryside was still commonplace across the country as a whole, but wasįast being eaten into by the suburban sprawl of large cities. Many rural areas were almost unchangedĬompared to how they appeared a century or more before, while many urbanĬentres were industrialised, overcrowded and heavily bomb-damaged. They provide a record of the country in the immediateĪftermath of the Second World War and on the threshold of great social,Įconomic and environmental change. Seventh Series of the 1950s and the metric-scale 1:50,000 maps thatįollowed from it. The creation of the series and so is something of a hybrid: cartographicallyĪ stepping stone between the iconic Popular Edition of the 1920s, and the The New Popular Edition was not produced from any one revision designed for Than squared or landscape format, with sheets of 45km x 40km. Were not published), and was the first to be produced in portrait rather Wales using a consistent numbering system (although the Scottish sheets It was also the first series to incorporate Scotland as well as England and (as recommended by the Davidson Committee in 1938) a metric National Grid. Although still produced at the one-inch scale, it included The New Popular Edition was in many ways a departure from previous Ordnance Was eventually superseded by the Seventh Series between 19. The New PopularĮdition was a mixture of Fifth Edition-style material in southern EnglandĪnd ‘old’ Popular Edition material elsewhere, with subsequent revision. (including bomb damage in the capital) between 19. Initial publication was completed in 1947, but sheets covering south-eastĮngland, including London, were republished with road and other revisions Popular Edition, which first went on sale in 1945. Its replacement, devised in 1938, but delayed by the war, was the New With only a small number of sheets having been produced. Ultimately proved unsuccessful and the project was abandoned in 1939 Various experiments of projection, sheet lines and styling which The Fifth Edition of the 1930s was the result of ![]() Survey ever since the completion of the Popular Edition in the lateġ920s, although the cartographic ambitions of these parties did not Landscape – one inhabited by over 50 million people by 1951 – had beenĮxercising the minds of the government, the military and the Ordnance The problem of surveying and recording Britain’s ever-changing
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