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Gazetteer for Scotland

The Gazetteer for Scotland is a vast geographical encyclopaedia, featuring details of towns, villages, bens and glens from the Scottish Borders to the Northern Isles. The first comprehensive gazetteer produced for Scotland since 1885, it includes tourist attractions, industries and historical sites, together with histories of family names and clans, biographies of famous Scots and descriptions of historical events associated with Scotland. The network of connections between all of these entries make this gazetteer unique. We have included the text of Groome's 19th Century Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland to provide a historical perspective on many of the places we describe.

Gazetteer of British Place Names

Contains the ancient or geographical County of over 50,000 place names in Britain along with modern administrative areas information.

GENUKI: Administrative Regions of the British Isles, UK and Ireland

GENUKI: Counties of England, Wales and Scotland prior to the 1974 Boundary Changes, UK and Ireland

GENUKI: Country and County Codes - British Isles, UK and Ireland

These codes, a superset of the the ISO 3166-2:GB and BS 6879 codes, were created by Dr Colin Chapman. A more complete list of Chapman codes, also covering the 1975-1996 counties (not used in GENUKI) is to be found in Wikipedia.

Get Mapping

UK aerial photography.

Highlights of the Map Collection

From National Library of Scotland.

Historical and Genealogical Maps of the World, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales

Decorative hand-coloured historical and genealogical maps of England and the English counties, an Irish family name map, a Scottish clan map, a historical map of Wales.

HLAmap

A Scotland-wide view of land use in modern and past times. Part of Historic Environment Scotland.

National Library of Scotland - Map images

National Library of Scotland Maps Collection

Online images of dozens of historical Scottish maps.

National Records of Scotland - Research Guides - Maps and Plans

Old Maps

Maps of towns in England, Scotland and Wales as they were in the 1950s.

Old Maps of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, California, Scotland, Wales, England

Old Maps of Scotland 1859. Handsome reproductions. Also, Ireland, England, Wales.

Old Ordnance Survey Maps for Scotland

Commonly called the Godfrey maps, these maps are invaluable for historians and genealogists. More than a thousand titles have been issued in this major series of reprints of Old Ordnance Survey Maps of towns throughout Britain and Ireland. The Maps are highly detailed, taken from the 1/2500 plans and reprinted at about 14 inches to the mile. They cover towns in great detail, showing individual houses, railway tracks, factories, churches, mills, canals, tramways and even minutiae such as dockside cranes, fountains, signal posts, pathways, sheds, wells, etc. Each map includes historical notes on the area concerned. Many also include extracts from contemporary directories. The maps are neatly folded, often with an early photograph on the cover. The maps are ideal for local historians, transport historians, and family historians, or simply those with an interest in the town they live in or have visited.

Old-Maps - The Online Repository of Historic Maps

One Place Studies

A one-place-study (OPS) considers your ancestors in their physical and social context. By learning about your ancestors' neighbours and studying the historical environment and events, big and small, that took place within a village, you can gain a greater understanding of your own genealogy.

Ordnance Survey - Historical map and survey archives

Here you can find out how to buy our historical maps of Great Britain and where to find our archived maps, aerial photography and survey records of overseas British colonies.

Ordnance Survey Large Scale Scottish Town Plans 1847-1895

Over 1,900 sheets covering 62 towns - the most detailed maps ever surveyed by Ordnance Survey.

Ordnance Survey Town Plans, 1847-1895

Over 1,900 sheets covering 62 towns in Scotland with the most detailed maps ever surveyed by Ordnance Survey.