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The original draftsman's drawings for the area around St Columb Major in Cornwall, made in 1810. Detail from 1901 Ordnance Survey map of the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda (showing St. George's Town and St. George's Garrison), compiled from surveys carried out between 1897 and 1899 by Lieutenant Arthur Johnson Savage, Royal Engineers.
Sven Berlin described the Ordnance Survey maps of the 1920s and 1930s as "old friends who guided you to unknown places" and John Paddy Brown wrote that "after the Second World War, the covers "were bereft of the innovation and imaginative flair which characterised the inter-War years."
The Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series maps were produced from the 1840s to the 1890s by the Ordnance Survey, with revisions published until the 1940s.The series mapped the counties of Great Britain at both a six inch and twenty-five inch scale with accompanying acreage and land use information.
English: Ordnance Survey London 6 inches to 1 mile, 1920, Ellis Martin details from Browne, John Paddy (1991). Map Cover Art: A pictorial history of Ordnance Survey cover illustrations. Ordnance Survey. ISBN 978-0319--00234-6.
In 1920, Crawford was employed by the Ordnance Survey, touring Britain to plot the location of archaeological sites, and in the process identified several that were previously unknown. Increasingly interested in aerial archaeology, he used Royal Air Force photographs to identify the extent of the Stonehenge Avenue , excavating it in 1923.
Media in category "Old Ordnance Survey map images" The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. 06-english map of 1915-detail- nla.obj-234275744.jpg 1,459 × 1,641; 669 KB
Media in category "Maps from Ordnance Survey" This category contains only the following file. I. File:ITM example 2007-06-05.jpg
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