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  2. Ordnance Survey - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Ordnance Survey National Grid - Wikipedia

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    The Ordnance Survey National Grid reference system (OSGB), also known as British National Grid (BNG), [1][2] is a system of geographic grid references, distinct from latitude and longitude, whereby any location in Great Britain can be described in terms of its distance from the origin (0, 0), which lies to the west of the Isles of Scilly. [3]

  4. Tithe map - Wikipedia

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    Tithe map. The term tithe map is usually applied to a map of an English or Welsh parish or township, prepared following the Tithe Commutation Act 1836. This act allowed tithes to be paid in cash rather than goods. The map and its accompanying schedule gave the names of all owners and occupiers of land in the parish.

  5. Boundaries in landscape history - Wikipedia

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    Boundaries - a real or imagined line that marks the limit of something. Many field boundaries in the central region of England originated with the enclosure of the previous open fields in the 18th or 19th century. In a few instances, current field boundaries (particularly in the West Country) have been shown to have originated in the Bronze Age ...

  6. OS MasterMap - Wikipedia

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    The OS MasterMap is the premier digital product of the Ordnance Survey. It was launched in November 2001. It is a database that records every fixed feature of Great Britain larger than a few meters in one continuous digital map. Every feature is given a unique TOID (TO pographical ID entifier), a simple identifier that includes no semantic ...

  7. Retriangulation of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    The spheroid is the nearest mathematical model, but as no one spheroid fits worldwide, a number have to be used. The Airy spheroid provides a good fit in the region of the British Isles, and the Transverse Mercator Projection of this spheroid was therefore adopted by the Ordnance Survey as the basis of the national co-ordinate system. [7]

  8. Ordnance datum - Wikipedia

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    View from Newlyn harbour showing the lighthouse and Newlyn Tidal Observatory to its right, both painted red and white. An ordnance datum (OD) is a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps. A spot height may be expressed as above ordnance datum (AOD). Usually mean sea level (MSL) at a particular place ...

  9. Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series - Wikipedia

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    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.