Cartographic
Extract from John Chapman's map of Nottinghamshire published in 1776.John Chapman’s map of Nottinghamshire (surveyed in 1774 and published in 1776) is the earliest printed map at a sufficiently useful scale of 1 statute mile to one inch to provide basic information on town and village layout and the existence of landscape features such as roads, waterways, parkland and mills. A facsimile version was published by Nottinghamshire County Council in 2003.
George Sanderson’s map of the county 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, waterways parish and township boundaries, etc). A facsimile version has been produced by Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Library Services:
- George Sanderson, Twenty miles around Mansfield, 1835 (Reprinted by Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire County Councils, 2001)
The centre of Radcliffe-on-Trent as depicted on a 25" to the mile Ordnance Survey map published in 1914.Large scale Ordnance Survey maps from the late 19th and early 20th centuries show Radcliffe on Trent and its features in great detail:
- 1:2500 (25” to the mile) published in 1884; second edition published in 1900; third edition published in 1914; later editions published in 1952, 1958, 1967 and 1977
- 1:10,560 (6” to the mile) published in 1883; second edition in 1901; third edition in 1915; later editions (at 1:10,000) in 1956, 1967, 1976 and 1990
Most of these maps are available online:
- National Library of Scotland: Ordnance Survey maps
- Nottinghamshire Insight Mapping
(Select ‘Historical’ from the pull-down menu at the top of the screen)
Manuscripts
University of Nottingham, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections
- ‘A map of an estate belonging to Gervace Rozell Esq. lying at Ratcliffe … Surveyed by Thomas Hand in the year of our Lord 1710 [Ma 2 P115]
- ‘A map of the parish of Ratcliffe by W. Attenburrow and son in 1787 [Ma 2P 116 (photocopy)]
- ‘A map of the parish of Ratcliffe upon Trent … by W. Attenburow, Surveyor (1790) [Map Cabinet (EA)]
- ‘A plan of such part of the Grantham Canal as is intended to pass through the Liberties of Holm Pierrepont, Ratcliffe and Stragglethorep, made in October 1791’ [Ma 2P 364 (iii)]
- ‘A plan of such part of the Grantham Canal as is intended to pass through the Liberty of Lamcote in the parish of Holmpierrepont 1792 [W. Calvert] [Ma 2P 365]
- ‘Map of lands at Ratcliffe upon Trent … belonging to the Right Honble Lord Viscount Newark, from a survey taken in 1801 by Wm. Attenburrow [Ma 2P 117]
Further information on the maps is available on the Manuscripts and Special Collections Online Catalogue.