Northumberland Ordnance Survey Name Book Project
Allendale Parish
An experimental map showing the place-names from Allendale Parish (old boundaries) with links to entries in the Ordnance Survey Northumberland Name Book Project whose web-site was officially launched at the end of October 2020. I realise the map is a bit small but has to fit the (rather old) style of my Weebly web-site.
The location data used on this map is based on the GB1900 (abridged) data-set:
GB1900 GAZETTEER (ABRIDGED) RELEASED UNDER CC-BY-SA LICENCE
Details of that project can be read here. The full distribution map of UK place-names can be found here.
Note that you can pan and zoom the map and use the menu (upper right) to change the displayed background map.
The locations shown are those recorded in the Name Book for Elsdon Parish (ref. 364 and 365). These Name Books were used by the surveyors to record names for the 1st edition in the 1860s. In Northumberland this was completed at a scale of 6" to 1 mile.
I have roughly classified the place-names into nine colour-coded categories shown in the menu on the right. Whole categories can be toggled on/off and expanded to allow a manual search. The classification is not straight-forward and you will find anomalies. I tried to pick colours for the categories that would be easy to remember (e.g. blue for water, green for vegetation, red for settlement).
The name of the marker should be revealed as you hover over it or when the place is selected from the right-hand folder. Click on the marker itself, or the name in the folder to show or zoom to the marker pop-up. This provides the following information.
The main name is the one used on that map, with an alternative name below (if used on the 2nd edition map). The OS grid reference is given below the name(s). Below that, there is a link to the 1st edition map sheet at National Library of Scotland (NLS), although these maps are not yet georeferenced so no exact location can be provided. (you need to find it yourself). A link is also provided to the 2nd edition OS 6" map at NLS. This is part of their wonderful georeferenced map layer so the exact location of the place-name is pin-pointed exactly - the blue marker should align with the left-hand letter of the place-name. The NLS provides a range of different background maps (including satellite layers and even LIDAR), along with several alternative ways of viewing them. The Side by Side view is particularly useful.
Two other links are currently provided from the pop-ups: a link to nearby photos in the Geograph Project so you can see what it is like there now, and the location on modern OS maps (1:50,000 and 1:25,000) from Streetmap.
The most important last link is direct to the relevant page on the Northumberland OS Name Books web-site for the place-name selected. Here you will find a transcription of the surveyor's entry which often provides interesting information about the feature and those who authorised the names. An image of the Name Book page itself will also be accessible there.
The location data used on this map is based on the GB1900 (abridged) data-set:
GB1900 GAZETTEER (ABRIDGED) RELEASED UNDER CC-BY-SA LICENCE
Details of that project can be read here. The full distribution map of UK place-names can be found here.
Note that you can pan and zoom the map and use the menu (upper right) to change the displayed background map.
The locations shown are those recorded in the Name Book for Elsdon Parish (ref. 364 and 365). These Name Books were used by the surveyors to record names for the 1st edition in the 1860s. In Northumberland this was completed at a scale of 6" to 1 mile.
I have roughly classified the place-names into nine colour-coded categories shown in the menu on the right. Whole categories can be toggled on/off and expanded to allow a manual search. The classification is not straight-forward and you will find anomalies. I tried to pick colours for the categories that would be easy to remember (e.g. blue for water, green for vegetation, red for settlement).
The name of the marker should be revealed as you hover over it or when the place is selected from the right-hand folder. Click on the marker itself, or the name in the folder to show or zoom to the marker pop-up. This provides the following information.
The main name is the one used on that map, with an alternative name below (if used on the 2nd edition map). The OS grid reference is given below the name(s). Below that, there is a link to the 1st edition map sheet at National Library of Scotland (NLS), although these maps are not yet georeferenced so no exact location can be provided. (you need to find it yourself). A link is also provided to the 2nd edition OS 6" map at NLS. This is part of their wonderful georeferenced map layer so the exact location of the place-name is pin-pointed exactly - the blue marker should align with the left-hand letter of the place-name. The NLS provides a range of different background maps (including satellite layers and even LIDAR), along with several alternative ways of viewing them. The Side by Side view is particularly useful.
Two other links are currently provided from the pop-ups: a link to nearby photos in the Geograph Project so you can see what it is like there now, and the location on modern OS maps (1:50,000 and 1:25,000) from Streetmap.
The most important last link is direct to the relevant page on the Northumberland OS Name Books web-site for the place-name selected. Here you will find a transcription of the surveyor's entry which often provides interesting information about the feature and those who authorised the names. An image of the Name Book page itself will also be accessible there.
This map was created using GPS Visualizer's do-it-yourself geographic utilities.
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Download larger map below. Save file to your computer, unzip and double-click the html file to open in your default internet browser. The full-screen interactive map also includes a search function.
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