Maps

Mo-anne · Post by **Mo-anne** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:02 am

Is there anywhere i can find a map showing the location of different parishes - currently looking at the period 1800 onwards.
Thanks

Post by **AndrewP** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:14 am

Hi Mo-anne,

Welcome to TalkingScot.

The National Library of Scotland has a lot of maps online at

http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/counties.html

The ones I find most useful are:

http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/os_scotlan ... _list.html
1890s Ordnance Survey maps with parishes coloured. Good maps, but large parts of northern Scotland is excluded from this series of maps.

http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/os_scotlan ... index.html
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1850s. Less detailed than the maps in the 1890s series.

There are differences in some of the parish and county boundaries between these two series of maps, mostly as the result of changes made in 1891 when a Boundary Commission had the job of sorting out parishes which had detached parts, or were split across county boundaries. Their task involved adusting parish or county boundaries to make parishes lie completely in one county and to re-assign detached parts to other parishes - essentially tidying the maps up.

All the best,

AndrewP