Old Maps Of Leicester

Old maps near leicester you may be interested in these old maps of the area nearby. You can purchase a good copy or 'print screen' to get a rubbish free copy. Also here is a good link to some leicestershire maps on rootsweb:

Your local county record office is likely to hold many of the historic maps that survive for any town or village; Click on the map for other historical maps of this place in 1887, john bartholomew's gazetteer of the british isles described leicester like this: On verso is the start of a description of leicestershire in english.

1814 john cary in cary's traveller's companion the old map shop.

The most comprehensive, topographic mapping covering all of england and wales from the 1840s to the 1950s. The first very large scale os map of part of the town of loughborough (at 1:500, or 126 inches to the mile) was published in 1884, plans of parts of leicester and melton mowbray at that scale followed in 1885 and part of hinckley in 1887. Leicestershire county council was formed in 1889. Old maps can provide topographical and other information about places that is not readily available from other sources.