Geography
Bishops Waltham Origin Maps Names History
Bishops Waltham: a small market town has a rich story to tell from pre-Doomsday to Cromwell, Trafalger and much more, what intriguing connections might thishave for you and your project?
Read MoreEast Meon Place name origins…
Some easy steps to checking out the origins of placenames and how we plan to map them on existing online and modern maps… from the Doomsday book onwards….start your own etymological study related to your family history map and family names….
Read MoreDippenhall Placename and Family Name Origins
Have some fun with Place names and family names and map making to reveal insights into your own intriguing connections
Read MoreCrondall Gazetteer and Historic placename mapping
Use the Old Hants Gazetter and learn about our old place name and maps ideas….this snippet is for Crondall
Read MoreHampshire Map 1673
1673 map of Hampshire UK, part of the Edwin Bolles Collection, Tufts University
Read MoreSanborn Fire Insurance Maps New Hampshire
A super mapping resource from Dartmouth Library is the digital map project of the Sanborn fire insurance maps for many towns in New Hampshire. If you have any family history connections to New Hampshire then these maps are a real treat To explore other intriguing snippets and see how they can be used to explore…
Read MoreQuebec Canada Maps early 1900’s
Early Quebec maps in the British Library
Read MoreMapping demo
This is just a taster of some further projects and initiatives we have in hand so that you can get the best from old maps overlayed and related to modern online maps, watch for a series of posts on this
Read MoreEndeavour reaches Tahiti with James Cook in Command 1769
Cook reaches Tahiti, the new world is just around the corner…
Read MoreHMS endeavour Bark Sailed from Plymouth with James Cook in Command in 1768
Cook set sail from Plymouth on his voyage to discover the new world…
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