Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Fantastic maps of local area found here

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/

If you click the link above, and put Stansted into the search area (at top left) and press return, you are presented with a list of maps on the right hand side (may work differently on mobile devices). Click each map and then click 'View Map'. The maps are scaleable, and full of amazing detail. I could spend hours looking at them! Below is a screenshot from one map. It shows Fairseat Lane marked as Horns Lodge Road, which is a much more apt name considering that the house at the end called Horns Lodge is one of the oldest in the area. You can see the full map here.


2 comments:

  1. This is brilliant Kate. You can see so much detail on the large scale maps eg the location of the Pavilion when cricket was still played in the field behind Stone rocks. Thank you.

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  2. Also the 1907 map clearly shows The Old Malthouse as 6 or 7 cottages as you mentioned in a previous post. Dick

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