Middlesex Old Maps Index for family history

If you are looking for old Maps of Middx, for your family or local history project then this is a great starting point, on the basis of no point reinventing the wheel, here are the best resources we have found for online locating maps for family history research in the Middlesex Area. London’s overlap with Middx as a county means its also worth a look at the Roots London Maps index as well

You might also like to take a look in British History Online with the references to the Middlesex sections of the 1840 earliest comprehensive OS (Ordnance Survey) map collections,well worth a look.

 

The Vision of Britain project also has a collection of old maps you can browse and zoom in on the old areas you were interested in Middx. You can select and browse as you choose. County boundaries you can view here for 1870/1880’s

 

Our aim is to find and catalogue the best sources of old maps and look to work with the GeoNames project to add old names of places so they can be found on contemporary online maps. The reason being this will create a shared and open repository for historic place names that is accessible from a wide range of maps but more of that later….if you have ideas for the Middlesex area, a group or local history team who would like to get involved with this initiative, then contact us here 

 

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