Data: Age and History - Colouring Loughborough historical maps

[MKIM1008]

@Polly64 @matkoniecz @mdsimpson42 @fallipalaiologou @MKIM1008 @taimaz22

A Loughborough University librarian / Loughborough library volunteer have shared these materials for the project. It also includes the sources from Polly. I will continuously update this board if I find something helpful about the old maps (including buildings, roads, etc.)

**Mainly, older maps (pre industrial period- e.g. from 1600s / 1700s) are welcome.

• listed in chronological order from the past.

1632

1695

1708

ARCHI historical maps - (1805-1845), looks like a 1724 map, https://www.archiuk.com/gallery/maps/herman_moll/leicestershire-old-map-1724-herman-moll.jpg

1735

1741

Fragment of maps by Emmanuel Bowen - 1756, https://leicestershirehistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/bowen-78.jpg

1769

John Prior map 1779, https://www.quornmuseum.com/display.php?id=1361

1792

University of Leicester - Leicestershire and Rutlandshire c. 1800-1809, https://cdm16445.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15407coll6/id/18375/rec/9

ARCHI historical maps - (1805-1845), https://www.archiuk.com/cgi-bin/get_victorian_old_maps_of_the_british_isles_ordnance_survey_1inch_1mile.pl?map_location=&ngr=&search_location=LE11%203BT,%20LE113BT%20in%20Loughborough,%20Charnwood,%20Leicestershire,%20England&os_series=0&is_sub=&pwd=&latitude=52.768682&longitude=-1.221586&placename=Loughborough&TownName=&county=Leicestershire&postcode=LE11%203BT

University of Portsmouth – 1805 to 1869, https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/maps/series?xCenter=3270156.91827&yCenter=2940056.56819&scale=63360&viewScale=22677.1776&mapLayer=nineteenth&subLayer=first_edition&title=Ordnance%20Survey%20and%20Ordnance%20Survey%20of%20Scotland%20First%20Series&download=false

Catalogue of British Town Maps - Loughborough-1837, https://townmaps.history.ac.uk/leicestershire-loughborough-1837

1837

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Digimap – historic – http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/ ordnance survey maps from 1846 to 1996.

National Library of Scotland - Loughborough -1883, https://maps.nls.uk/os/townplans-england/loughborough.html

Oldemaps - insights in Bartholomew's Half-Inch Map, from 1921 until 1974, https://www.oldemaps.co.uk/map-loughborough.jpg

• Local history books that may help with background information

Bygone Loughborough : chapters of local history from the earliest days to the incorporation of the borough / by Herbert W. Cook. Shelved at 942.547/COO on level 2, https://vufind.lboro.ac.uk/Record/318486

A history of Loughborough between c.1810 and c.1870: a study of urban changes in a period of demographic growth and stagnation by W. Humphrey, https://hdl.handle.net/2134/7484

• Old map websites

British Library Old Maps, https://britishlibrary.oldmapsonline.org/start

American Library,

[polly64]

@MKIM1008 great to talk. Well done. I will review these this morning and recommend which to georeference. Then just need to chat to map librarian again who may be able to tell you quite quickly. We could use anything from 1800 of before so exclude others. 1837 one only if we're desperate as really too late as railway line shown

[MKIM1008]

@MKIM1008 great to talk. Well done. I will review these this morning and recommend which to georeference. Then just need to chat to map librarian again who may be able to tell you quite quickly. We could use anything from 1800 of before so exclude others. 1837 one only if we're desperate as really too late as railway line shown

@polly64 Thank you for your reply. I also will visit Loughborough local library as the uni librarian recommended and see if they have maps before 1800.

[MKIM1008]

1880s map from Edina @taimaz22

(Zoom in) Loughborough 1 in 1880s map - near old buildings

(Zoom in) Loughborough 2 in 1880s map - near old buildings

Available area in 1890s map - the bottom right corner of Loughborough @polly64

[polly64]

@MKIM1008 could you zoom in on a few areas on the 1890s? we can ask Chris Fleet at NLS for the 1890 for Loughborough as open release