(85) Sheet 85 - Hawick & Eskdale
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| Ordnance Survey One-Inch Popular edition of Scotland - 1921-1930 > (85) Sheet 85 - Hawick & Eskdale |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549910 |
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| Description | Sheet 85 of the Ordnance Survey One-inch Popular Edition of Scotland. It was issued in 1926 at a scale of 1 inch to 1 mile (1: 63,360) from a survey done in 1922. The first Ordnance Survey of this area was done between 1849 and 1859. On the right side, the sheet stretches from Whiteriggs and the Dean Burn, just east of Hawick, in the north, to Glendhu Hill (1684 feet) and Kershope Head (1121 feet), just east of Newcastleton, in Liddesdale, in the south. On the left side, the sheet stretches from Din Law (2182 feet), Gameshope Loch and Great Hill (2540 feet), in the north, to Chipknowe and Greenburn, above Dryfesdale, in the south. There is one set of References, the scale statement ‘One Inch to One Statute Mile - 1/63360’, with accompanying scale bar, and one other scale bar of 1 centimetre to 1 kilometre. Contours and fathoms are shown, with accompanying information about measurement |
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| Description | A series of 92 sheets mapping all of Scotland. Ordnance Survey aimed to produce an attractive contoured road map that would be popular with the 'man in the street'. The ‘Popular’ edition was particularly intended for the inter-war generation's leisure hours – cycling, touring or walking through the countryside. |
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