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Explore other online digitised historical maps

EXPLORE LARGE-SCALE ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS OF OUR AREA dating from the 1860s to the1940s at the National Library of Scotland website. A range of viewing options is available, including Side by Side - a scrollable and zoomable display of the 1890s-1920s series alongside modern satellite images or road maps.

OTHER HISTORIC MAPS THAT INCLUDE OUR AREA HAVE BEEN DIGITISED

John Rocque's 1740s A Map of London and the adjacent Country 10 Miles Round is accessible at here from Wikipedia commons, though, being near the bottom border, it becomes distorted around Morden.

More reliable is his 1768 Map of Surrey, which can be found at: https://d29jwmc6w46mhx.cloudfront.net/images/2411_1H_v1.jpg?mtime=20210422152813&focal=none

William Faden's 1820 Map of 25 miles around London can be found at http://chartae-antiquae.cz/en/maps/31780

Other historic maps of Surrey can be accessed (though not all links seem to be working) at: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~genmaps/genealogy/genfiles/COU_Pages/ENG_pages/sry.htm

A GEOLOGICAL MAP

can be explored on the British Geological Survey website http://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/geologyofbritain/home.html

Click on the Go to Location button in the top right of the screen and type in the location of interest to you.