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Knowing we all like to add the finishing touches to our research thought some of you may be interested in the following excellent site for old maps of Lancashire which include the following resources: Lancashire - Full County Maps - These are NOT the names of places but the names of the people who drew up the map – have to be seen to be believed!!! • Gough, c.1360 Extract covering Lancashire from the earliest surviving map of Britain • Speed, 1610 More pictorial than accurate but has earliest map of Lancaster. • Yates, 1786 • Greenwood, 1818- Colour map and probably our best! • Hennet, 1829 • OS Index of early edition 6-inch and 25-inch Maps Key map with Parishes • Lancashire Hundreds The 6 hundreds are believed to originate before the Domesday Book and the formation of Lancashire itself! Other maps • Preston 1715- complete with battle lines • Chorley 1769 - note the open streams across the main street! • Caton Tithe Map 1843 • Ogilby's Road Map 1675 Garstang to Carlisle http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/oldmap/index.asp Lots of other maps also included dated 1845, 1890 and 1950.

Snowdrop I've seen the 1360 one, many moons ago and was utterly rivetted! Three generations of my Holdens were kinsmen of the Lord of the Manor of Holden and went about drawing maps of the manor, in the late 1500s/early 1600s. One small piece of one survives...and there was the field named in a dispute some 300 years later! OC

Hi OC They're certainly impressive aren't they? You could sit for hours just looking at one of them never mine all that's on offer on that site. Even if it's only of use to one person it will be worthwhile someone finding this thread.

Snowdrop My biggest problem is knowing that I cannot possibly live long enough to see everything there is about the Holdens! OC

You've got years yet!

Some of these maps and mapmakers featured in Richard Crane's series - guess what - Mapman. It gets repeated on UK History every so often. J