NLS places OS Scottish One-Inch 'Hills' maps editions online

The maps department of the Natinal Library of Scotland (https://maps.nls.uk) has recently added the following Scottish Ordnance Survey maps:

OS Scottish One-Inch 'Hills' editions and additional states (1840s-1900s)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch to the Mile, Hills editions and additional states graphic

We have added 348 new Ordnance Survey One-Inch to the mile (1:63,360) engraved maps online. This includes two new 'hills' editions at one-inch to the mile scale, with relief shown by hachures (horizontal lines following the direction of the slope). We have also added a number of variant states of these OS one-inch maps, including those with railway additions, minor corrections, different printings, and different colour. We now have a comprehensive set of all our OS one-inch to the mile single-sheet maps of Scotland online.

    View these maps with a graphic index of Scotland.
    1st edition - 1856-1891 - 539 sheets
    2nd edition - 1885-1900 - 548 sheets
    3rd edition - 1903-1912 - 642 sheets
    4th edition - 1910 - 2 sheets 

Further details at https://maps.nls.uk/additions/ and https://maps.nls.uk/os/introduction.html.

Chris

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