The maps are very detailed, marking roads, tracks, and telegraph lines, and locating vineyards, monasteries, ruins, sheepfolds, springs, wells and aqueducts. You can download any of the boundaries as shapefiles or KML files for onward re-use, and read about the boundaries. Modern features like quarries, embankments or railway cuttings, as well as historic features like limekilns or canals can be seen more clearly. Our holdings are complete, with 34 sheets covering all of Scotland. The Roy Military Survey of Scotland, known to its contemporaries as the 'Great Map', is a uniquely important historical cartographic document. 2) and "minimum" reserved matters (sch. The mosaics were produced as an interim measure by Ordnance Survey as a quick and cheap expedient before proper paper mapping could be surveyed, to assist with post-War planning and reconstruction. The maps show farms and settlements, roads and railways, rivers and watercourses, administrative and field boundaries, woodland and land use, as well as contour lines; buildings are generalised in urban areas but many street names are also shown. Tranquility, culture, cuisines, all in earshot in your usual favourites. The Blaeu Atlas Maior or Cosmographia Blaviana is one of the largest and most splendid of the multi-volume Dutch world atlases. Larne is twinned with Clover, South Carolina, which has named one of its schools, Larne Elementary School,[54] after Larne. [47] Northern Regional College (formerly Larne Technical College) is a college of further education.[48]. They are particularly useful for showing the function of each building, and often the names of particular companies or institutions there. It opened in 1878, was closed to passengers in 1933 and finally completely closed in 1950. The coastal area around Larne has been inhabited for millennia, and is thought to have been one of the earliest inhabited areas of Ireland, with these early human populations believed to have arrived from Scotland via the North Channel. This attractively-coloured series covered most of Scotland in the early 20th century. The new Scottish data is from the latest Phase V of the Scottish Government's LiDAR datasets, flown in 2021, and includes new coverage of Glasgow and Edinburgh with a 50 cm resolution Digital Terrain Model (DTM). In 1914, Loyalists opposed to the Home Rule Act 1914 prepared for armed resistance. Our new additions include the Maxwells of Monreith Estate Maps and Plans, 1777-1778, a set of estate maps and accompanying schedules surveyed by John Gillone (1767-1809) in 1777-78, relating to Monreith estate in Wigtownshire. The BelfastLarne railway line connects to Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station and Belfast Central, via Whitehead, Carrickfergus and Jordanstown, also connects Larne to the Northern Ireland Railways network. The project forms part of the Know Your Place West of England Project, and has allowed us to fill gaps in our holdings for Devon with British Library maps, so our online presentation is now more complete. The gazetteer provides a very comprehensive list of names for rural areas. These are the most detailed, basic scales of Ordnance Survey maps for these areas. The earliest maps in the collection are by Peter May (1724/33-1795), working for the Commissioners for the Forfeited Annexed Estates, and his nephew George Brown, who trained under May. This small set of 220 maps of Scotland, also includes maps of Scottish towns, counties and regions, and some coastal charts. Only one-third of the entire length is man-made, the rest being formed by Loch Dochfour, Loch Ness, Loch Oich, and Loch Lochy, with the man-made canals running parallel with rivers such as the River Oich.[10]. The devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have been granted power by the Parliament under their respective legislators in all areas except those which are reserved (or excepted in the case of Northern Ireland). These charts were drafted to support expanding merchant shipping and fisheries, for ferries and steamer travel, as well as intermittent naval concerns. The Ordnance Survey Books of Reference (or Area Books) record acreages of each land parcel on the OS 25 inch to the mile maps, and usually its land use, except in settlements and for counties surveyed after 1879. The maps can be viewed using a clickable map and as an ordered list. We have added 348 new Ordnance Survey One-Inch to the mile (1:63,360) engraved maps online. Bespoke orders or other queries for copies of items not on our website can still be sent to maps@nls.uk. "The Founding of the Museum of Flight", in Bunyan, IT, Storer, JD and Thompson, CL (1983). It contains a single, artificial island named Cherry Island (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Muireach) at the southwestern end. This series at half-inch to the mile scale (1:126,720) was published during the Second World War as an Outline (uncoloured) series, with topography in black, and inland water features printed in blue. A few coastal charts have also been added, including War Office maps proposing coastal harbour defences (1907-9). "), and so it was named "Loch Nis". We have also georeferenced these two editions (Outline, Hills) so they can be compared to present day and other mapping. These are records for the most detailed OS map series covering both rural and urban areas: the OS 25 inch (1:2,500) and OS six-inch to the mile (1:10,560) series. Loch Ness forms part of the Caledonian Canal, which comprises 60 miles (100 kilometres) of waterways connecting the east coast of Scotland at Inverness with the west coast at Corpachthe near Fort William. Volume VI of the work was devoted to maps of Scotland and Ireland, bringing forward the original mapping of Scotland from the work of Timothy Pont, first published in Blaeus Atlas novus of 1654, into their final published form. [9] Dochgarroch weir at the downstream end of Loch Dochfour delineates the start of the River Ness, which connects to the nearby and ultimately leads through Inverness to the North Sea via the Moray Firth. We have put together a new guide on Maps for researching Scottish Woodland History. Here are some of the most exceptional secret islands in Europe: Lastovo lies somewhere between the northern tip of Puglia, and the southern end of Croatias famous island collective, the Dalmatian Coast. Larne (from Irish: Latharna, IPA:[lahn], the name of a Gaelic territory)[1][2][3] is a town on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, with a population of 18,755 at the 2011 Census. We have just upgraded our collaborative online Georeferencer application with several new features. They provide good detail of all buildings, streets, railways, industrial premises, parkland, farms, woodland, and rivers. 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We have made available these geo search application options: Our new e-payments system lets you purchase printouts and images of any of our online maps. We have scanned all our sheets of this series, which were received by the Library in a folded form. The maps are immensely valuable for local and family history, allowing most features in the landscape to be shown. They were generally published by private companies, including G.W. Town (and civil parish) in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. We have also changed the footer to mirror the main Library website, grouping the most useful information pages into clearer lists. The initial predominance of Dutch and French charts in the 16th and early 17th centuries, gave way to charts by British and later Scottish surveyors, including John Adair, Thomas Winter, John Ainslie and Murdoch Mackenzie. This layer currently just covers counties in south-east England, but will expand geographically as scanning continues. The Fatal Accidents and Sudden Death Inquiry (Scotland) Act, 1976 repealed and replaced both these earlier acts and introduced four major changes: it dispensed with the need for a jury; gave wide powers to the Lord Advocate in relation to such inquiries; brought deaths in prisons and of persons in legal custody into the normal FAI system The hangars, control tower and stores were designated as Category B listed buildings by Historic Scotland, but this designation was removed in 2013 as they were already covered by the stricter scheduling. Maps can reveal detailed information about local areas over time, including buildings, gardens, industries, railways, roads, woodland and agricultural land. Both Larne Town railway station and Larne Harbour railway station opened on 1 October 1862 and closed for goods traffic on 4 January 1965.[44]. It uses the 1930s Land Utilisation Survey maps for Scotland that we made available online last year, and compares them to the 2015 Historic Land-use Assessment (HLA Map) layer from Historic Environment Scotland. Our Historic Maps Subscription API service allows you to incorporate five detailed historic georeferenced map layers in your own website. There was no revision of topographic detail, but the sheets were metricated, enlarged from 1:126,720 to 1:100,000, with updated German titles, marginalia and legends. There is a display of air-to-air weapons, including an M1918 Savage-Lewis machine gun, a Browning 0.303 inch machine gun, a Hispano-Suiza 20mm cannon, an AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile, and air-to-ground weapons including a flechette, a Target indicator and a Fritz X guided bomb. The easiest way of searching for information is by county and parish. Before 2017, a list of matters was explicitly devolved to the then known National Assembly for Wales and any matter not listed in the Act was implicitly reserved to Westminster. The underlying topographic detail was photographically reduced from the latest available Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile maps, and then usually overprinted with contour lines, enlarged from the latest Ordnance Survey one-inch to the mile maps. This has involved the conservation and digitisation of historic maps to allow their wider availability online. The names have been gathered through the GB1900 transcription project, which ran from September 2016 to January 2018, transcribing all text content from these maps. These series complement our existing OS Quarter-Inch to the mile maps and Boundaries viewer. The Outline series was quickly appreciated by planners and local government officials for administrative purposes, and it was also popular with market researchers. An emphasis on expanding geographic and topographic knowledge and detail from the 16th to the 18th centuries, was often replaced by a growing interest in the emerging sciences and physical environment in the 19th century. Latharna was only applied exclusively to the town in recent centuries. This resource was created as part of a work placement at the Library undertaken by Matthew Lee, a PhD student working on a collaborative project between the University of Aberdeen and the National Library of Scotland. We have scanned a new hand-coloured one-inch series, covering all of Scotland and published on 132 sheets between 1856 and 1891. New geo-referenced satellite image overlays allow historic town plans for Scotland to be directly compared with modern Google Maps and Virtual Earth satellite and map layers. This series is the most detailed mapping of London by Ordnance Survey just over a century ago. [39], Larne is also home to the headquarters of Caterpillar (NI) Limited (part of the Caterpillar group which manufactures diesel and gas generators),[40] InspecVision (industrial inspection equipment),[citation needed] TerumoBCT (a Japanese manufacturer of intravenous drip solutions and blood products),[41] and the LEDCOM (Larne Enterprise Development Company) business park. Two of these series were officially published by the War Office (Geographical Section, General Staff) and carry their series designation numbers. We also include information on recent buildings and map copyright, as well as further relevant resources, both online and in print. [2] The displays included several aircraft on loan, including de Havilland Dragon Rapide (G-ADAH), BA Swallow (G-AEVZ) and Fairey Delta 2 WG774. During the First World War, trench map coordinates were used extensively for giving precise locations on the Western Front. The two main search methods, Find by Place and Browse by Category, are now available on all pages, and our georeferenced applications are now fully integrated with all online maps content, using a consistent navigational header. Very often, these new coloured sheets were earliest states which were later re-issued, sometimes with updated information relating to railways, docks, or parish boundaries. Passenger services are operated by P&O Irish Sea which describes the crossings from Larne to Scotland as "the shortest, fastest crossings" due to the close proximity that Larne has to Scotland. We are very grateful to the Dumfries Archival Mapping Project for scanning this set of 120 estate plans, held in private hands and archives. Towns with more than 4,000 people were initially surveyed at 1:1,056 scale from the 1840s, and the 1:500 scale was only authorised from 1855, so this set of 1:1,056 town plans usually date from the 1840s-1850s. Other objects on display include one of the Daimler-Benz DB 601 engines from the Messerschmitt Bf 110 flown to Scotland by Rudolf Hess, a Bristol Pegasus engine displayed alongside a Harrier jump jet, a Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet displayed next to a Lightning. Loch Ness is best known for claimed sightings of the cryptozoological Loch Ness Monster, also known affectionately as "Nessie" (Scottish Gaelic: Niseag). This mapping covers an area of about 20 square miles, made up of 4,292 sheets, each covering 500 x 500 metres on the ground. It is also possible to fade the transparency and view different base maps. These powers were not devolved after the Belfast Agreement. You can also explore these maps through two related applications on our Bartholomew Archive website: the Great Britain time traveller and the Cairngorms layer colour explorer. A market is also held every Wednesday at the Larne Market Yard.[43]. The new viewers are built upon OpenLayers 3 and are compatible with all current release standards-compliant web browsers. In the georeferenced maps viewer, you can save a GeoJSON file of drawn features, for easy onward editing in geographic viewers or software. It is one of the museums within National Museums Scotland. [20], This article is about devolution in the United Kingdom. The earliest of these maps are nearly always the most detailed depictions of towns before the Ordnance Survey mapping from the 1840s. An initiative developed by the Northern Lighthouse Board to promote and drive tourism to Scotlands coastal communities and increase awareness of the role and history of NLBs unique heritage. There are also two Ordnance Survey One-Inch to the mile series of Scotland, the 2nd edition with coloured parishes and a third outline edition (1903-1912). Scotland is home to over 790 islands, coming in second to the thousands of Nordic and Scandi clusters across the continent. The Tower of Hercules in Spain is the oldest operating lighthouse in the world. The maps consisted of an outline edition of Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 sheets, overprinted in red with administrative information. A cottage for 6 alongside Strathy Point Lighthouse on the dramatic northern tip of Scotland. They added categories of roads, including drove roads, steamer routes, and rights of way that were often not shown on Ordnance Survey maps. [11] The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts officially adopted a reconstruction of an American Revolutionary banner at the bicentennial of its 1774 introduction;[12] similarly, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in 1973 adopted the 1775 flag of John Proctor's Independent Battalion of Westmoreland County Provincials. The term Larnian has even been coined by archaeologists to describe such flintworks and similar artefacts of the Mesolithic era (and one time to describe Mesolithic culture in Ireland as a whole). In the first, a spring in a valley had been enchanted by Daly the Druid for purity, with the admonition that the well opening must be covered by a stone whenever not in use, or else "desolation will overtake the land". This series covering Great Britain in 62 sheets in the 1940s, their first to cover Great Britain at this scale, provides an attractive and useful snapshot of post-War Britain. 24 August 1980: Rodney McCormick a Catholic, was shot dead by the, 11 July 2000: Andrew Cairns a UVF member, was killed by members of the UDA. We have added details of the parish and county under the map cursor, when looking at maps of England, Scotland or Wales at zoom level 13 or higher in our Explore Georeferenced Maps viewer. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. This also includes a set of Outline (uncoloured) sheets, as well as the Seventh Series Indexes, showing sheet lines of the 1:2500 County Series related to the National Grid. The museum is housed in the original wartime buildings of RAF East Fortune which is a well preserved World War II airfield. We are pleased to make available all our holdings of trench maps of the Western Front (307 maps). Depending on the place, subject and time period, different maps may be more useful, and these are explained. We have updated our Map Finder- with Marker application, allowing all our online maps to be searched with a marker pin. The Parliament of the United Kingdom has granted legislative power to the Scottish Parliament and the Senedd through the Scotland Act 1998 and the Government of Wales Act 2006 respectively. The maps were surveyed primarily to support agricultural improvement and estate management, as well as for the sale of landed estates, and show excellent detail of the rural landscape. We have been pleased to collaborate with the British Library in a recent project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, to scan, georeference and make available more Ordnance Survey mapping for south-west England. The Georeferencer application includes 1,000 early maps of Scotland, including town plans, county maps, coastal charts, and maps of the whole of Scotland. For parishes in Scotland, there is also a link to view the specific parish in the centre of the screen, highlighted in our Boundaries Viewer. We have added 82 new military maps of Scotland online. The rest of the collections, only some of which are on display, include: Aircraft on display include the Spitfire, Bolingbroke, Meteor, Tornado and Jaguar, as well as the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet flown by Captain Eric Brown. [2] A smaller (5MW) power station nearby used to provide power for an aluminium smelting plant, but now electricity is generated and supplied to the National Grid. There was no revision of topographic detail, but the sheets were metricated, enlarged from 1:63,360 to 1:50,000, with updated German titles, marginalia and legends. They illustrate a very wide range of natural and man-made features and are excellent for local and family history. The Administrative Area Series at 1:25,000 scale was established after the Second World War as a national cartographic record of administrative boundaries. [24] Nearby, there is a memorial to him erected by the people of Glenurquhart. Our previous coverage of this series just included one edition for each sheet map, but we have now put online all our out-of-copyright editions. Storer, JD (1983). [25], In July 1966, Brenda Sherratt became the first person to swim the length of the loch. 3). As well as naming all streets, the Post Office Directory maps show good detail of all the built-up areas, clearly highlighting public buildings, churches and chapels, schools, railways, tramways, docks, harbours, public gardens and parks, and many other urban features. Nope, these stunning destinations are all in the UK, Train travel: France and Germany plan discounted ticket for young people, Croatia: What to eat, drink and do in 'the land of a thousand islands', Unexplored Spain: Beat the crowds in this lesser known city, Mighty mountains and azure seas: 6 of France's best train journeys, Schengen: Croatia joining the zone from the start of 2023, Pre-marital sex ban sends shockwaves among Bali digital nomads, Christmas travel chaos likely after UK Border Force vote to strike. The guide also includes links to downloadable datasets, details of resources that are not online, as well as references for further reading. The flag of Great Britain, commonly known as King's Colours, the first Union Flag, the Union Jack, or the British flag, was used at sea from 1606 and more generally from 1707 to 1801.It was the first flag of Great Britain. Roy was a keen antiquarian and man of science, and this splendid volume is a lasting monument to these interests. Over 380 towns (all those with more than 4,000 people) were mapped at a scale of 1:500 - the most detailed maps that Ordnance Survey ever surveyed of these towns. These are often very detailed maps of rural areas which quantify land and resources. We've just launched a new 3D viewer which allows our georeferenced maps to be explored from a birds eye perspective. Our new Sherwood Forest coverage is the highest resolution LiDAR ever flown of this area at 16 cm resolution, and includes both Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and Digital Surface Model (DSM) coverage. The Government of Wales Act 1998 lists the following fields to be transferred to the National Assembly for Wales:[8], The Government of Wales Act 2006 updated the list of fields, as follows:[9], Schedule 5 to the 2006 Act may be amended to add specific matters to the broad subject fields, thereby extending the legislative competence of the Assembly. Although based on the same survey, there are subtle differences of symbols, styles and the depiction of features between these two states of First Edition mapping. The recording of land use was carried out by volunteers, particularly schoolchildren and students, using Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile field sheets. In theory, reserved matters could be devolved at a later date, but excepted matters were not supposed to be considered for further devolution. From Lochend to Fort Augustus and back, he covered the 77km (48 miles) in 77 minutes at an average speed of 60km/h (37mph). A geolocation option has been added, so you can choose to display your current device location, and a wider range of current and historical base map layers can be selected. We have added 10,519 sheets online showing Victorian town plans in England and Wales (1840s-1890s). In this case, were talking about Europes thousands (yes, thousands) of secret islands. These powers are reserved in Scotland, but the Scotland Act contains a complex list of exceptions that allow the Scottish Parliament to legislate on various benefits and other social security matters. The National Museum of Flight is Scotland's national aviation museum, at East Fortune Airfield, just south of the village of East Fortune, Scotland. [4][5] It is a major passenger and freight roll-on roll-off port. These range from tiny patches of uninhabitable land to vast expanses like the Celtic wonderland of Skye. [citation needed], "Scots union flag as said to be used by the Scots.". These include 1,592 detailed maps at scales of 1:1,250 and 1:2,500 covering areas in Scotland, and 513 less detailed maps at scales of 1:10,560 covering areas in England, Scotland and Wales. A. T. Q. Stewart: "The Ulster Crisis", London, Faber and Faber Ltd., 1967 SBN 571 08066 9, Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station, List of localities in Northern Ireland by population, "Census 2011 Population Statistics for Larne Settlement", Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, "Census 2011 Population Statistics for Larne Local Government District", "Larne Borough council Local History and Heritage", "Answers The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions", "Fejl: Siden blev ikke fundet / adgang er ikke tilladt", "Terrorist Incident (Larne) (Hansard, 6 May 1980)", "BBC News NORTHERN IRELAND Fresh appeal after bonfire murder", "LEDCOM -Expert business advice and resources in Larne and Co. 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