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The tor was also one of the few historic features to appear on Benjamin Donn's one-inch-to-the-mile map of Devon in 1765. It lies adjacent to the trans-Dartmoor packhorse track, so it has been a significant landmark for travellers since time immemorial.
One hundred strip road maps are shown, accompanied by a double-sided page of text giving additional advice for the map's use, notes on the towns shown and the alternative pronunciations of their name. [6] Another innovation was Ogilby's scale of one inch to the mile (1:63360). [7]
By 1810, one-inch-to-the-mile maps of most of the south of England were completed, but they were withdrawn from sale between 1811 and 1816 because of security fears. [10] By 1840, the one-inch survey had covered all of Wales and all but the six northernmost counties of England. [11] Surveying was hard work.
1944 one inch to one mile map sheet S44 showing route from Ngahere via Blackball to Roa. Source: Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) and licensed by LINZ for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence.
One hundred strip road maps are shown, accompanied by a double-sided page of text giving additional advice for the map's use, notes on the towns shown, and the pronunciations of their names. [3] The roads were measured using a surveyor's wheel and plotted at one inch to the statute mile (1:63,360), an Ogilby innovation. [4]
[6] [7] This survey at a scale of 1 inch to 1000 yards (1:36,000) [8] was the starting point of the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain (1783–1853), and led to the creation of the Ordnance Survey itself; work was begun in earnest in 1790, when the Board of Ordnance began a national military survey at one-inch-to-the-mile (1:63,360 scale ...
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The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales.