Sunday 27 April 2014

maps

It can be fun to pour over maps.
Jay Doubleyou: Schools are taking this seriously

For example, a Medieval manor:
17_medimanor.jpg (488×709)

And these can be supplemented by aerial photography - with some more Medieval stuff:
Jay Doubleyou: Tintagel

This can provoke a few questions - such as 'What exactly are we looking at?'
Jay Doubleyou: A field trip

Here we are in Roman Devon:
Jay Doubleyou: Something from the air…

And Roman Exeter (pages 43 and 59):
rammuseum.org.uk/web/data/page_data/Romans-in-Devon-and-Iron-Age-Background-Notes.pdf

Here are some great maps showing how the Industrial Revolution affected the British landscape - right out in the middle of the countryside:
Power in the Landscape - Home
Power in the Landscape - Water powered mills in the Upper Calder Valley

... especially Hebden Bridge, 1907 Ordnance Survey Map:
Design ideas final - chopup

Looking at any map of a town or city today, what can you say about:
> the history of the streets (their names, their shape),
> the layout of the districts (which were built first and what were they for?),
> the bits of natural geography (underground streams, old trees)?

And for the countryside, here is a useful list -  but only if you're in Britain!

The scope of landscape history ranges from specific individual features to areas covering hundreds of square miles.[6] Topics studied by landscape historians include:

Landscape history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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