Cartographic
John Chapman’s map of Nottinghamshire (1774) is the earliest printed map at a sufficiently useful scale (1 statute mile to one inch) to provide basic information on town and village layout and the existence of landscape features such as roads, parkland and mills. A facsimile version was published by Nottinghamshire County Council in 2003.
George Sanderson’s map, Twenty miles around Mansfield, originally published in 1835, covers most of Nottinghamshire at a useful scale of 2¼ inches to 1 mile (showing fields, individual buildings, roads, industrial sites, parish and township boundaries, etc) and a reproduction has been published by Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Library Services.
Ordnance Survey
Extract from Ordnance Survey 25" to 1 mile map of 1901 showing the area around the parish church.
Large scale Ordnance Survey maps from the late 19th and early 20th centuries show Beeston in great detail:
- 1:2500 (25” to the mile) and 1:10560 (6” to the mile) published in 1884 (1st revision in 1898; 2nd revision in 1915)
These maps can be consulted at Nottinghamshire Archives or the local studies sections at Nottingham Central Library or Beeston Library.
Manuscript
Archives and Special Collections, University of Nottingham
Several maps of property in Beeston are listed on the Archives and Special Collections Online Catalogue.