Maps on Flash Drive

Cheshire Local History Association has produced Flash Drives of historical maps.

The Flash Drive costs £15.

They can be purchased from Cheshire Archives & Local Studies .

Each Flash Drive has two connectors - USB-A and USB-C

Samples

1598 Smith

1598 William Smith (heraldic title – Rouge Dragon)
This manuscript map shows the names of major landowners in red script.

1675 Ogilby road map
- Ludlow to Chester
(8 Ogilby maps on flash drive)

1675 John Ogilby - 8 maps -

- Lichfield to Chester
- Chester to Holyhead
- Ludlow to Chester
- Chester to Llanbedr (Merioneth)
- Warrington to Chester
- Shrewsbury to Holywell
- York to Warrington
- Darlaston (Staffordshire) to Garstang (Lancashire)

The first road map of England and Wales, ’Britannia’ consisted of 100 maps, each approximately 45 x 35 cms in size. Working from bottom left to top right, the route is ‘projected on imaginary scrolls’ and, significantly, Ogilby uses the statute mile of 1760 yards, marked out in furlongs. Detail shown includes bridges, hills, towns, villages, churches, country seats, and compass roses to show changes in direction. The maps were an immediate success and Ogilby’s roads were soon appearing in the work of other mapmakers.

1831 Bryant - 4 sheets
(NW sheet shown)

1831 A Bryant
William Andrewes Bryant was the son of a lawyer from Reigate in Surrey. He produced maps of 12 English counties and the East Riding of Yorkshire maps between 1822 and 1835. They were the peak of achievement for the private surveyor, soon to be eclipsed by the Ordnance Survey venturing further into commercial map production. At 1¼“ to 1 mile, a slightly larger scale than Greenwood’s map, Bryant’s map is very similar in content but provides substantially more detail.