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Series
Ordnance Survey: Directorate of Field Survey: One-Inch Scale Name Books (Seventh...
Catalogue reference: OS 52
What's it about?
OS 52
This series contains files and maps relating to the names of areas, roads, landscape features and objects to be included or removed from Ordnance Survey one inch to a mile (1:63,360) mapping of Great Britain, together with the authority for their...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- OS 52
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ordnance Survey: Directorate of Field Survey: One-Inch Scale Name Books (Seventh Series and Implemenation of Continuous Revision)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1948-1975
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files and maps relating to the names of areas, roads, landscape features and objects to be included or removed from Ordnance Survey one inch to a mile (1:63,360) mapping of Great Britain, together with the authority for their spelling. Does not include an index.
They represent continuous revision carried out to the Seventh Series, and to the one-inch mapping created when revision policy had moved away from a 'map series' approach. The series includes two Tourist Maps (Dartmoor and Exmoor) and relates to the period up to the introduction of metrication.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, Directorate of Field Survey, 1946-1973
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 100 files and flat sheets
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2001 Ordnance Survey
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Travel and tourism
- Maps and plans
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- This series relates to section 2.2.2.1 of the PRO's Aquisition Policy (the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK as documented by the state's dealings with individuals, communities and organisations outside its own formal boundaries).
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Seventh Series - a completely new edition of the one-inch (1:63,360) map of Great Britain - commenced drawing in 1948 and the first sheet was published in 1952. Publication of the series was completed by 1961, but by 1958 a systematic revision had already begun, based on field revision undertaken at 1:10,560 scale. After 1961 revision policy focused on the individual sheet rather than the Series as a whole, with varying cycles of revision being applied to the 189 sheets in the Series according to the degree of urbanisation and the likelihood of change. Tourist Maps were special editions of the one-inch mapping with sheet lines drawn to cover the area of tourist interest.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15756/
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Ordnance Survey: Directorate of Field Survey: One-Inch Scale Name Books (Seventh Series and Implemenation of Continuous Revision)
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