CD-ROM
The Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Explorer CD-ROMS available for use in this exhibition, can be purchased from: Ash House, Prickwillow Road, Queen Adelaide, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4TZ. For more details see: both CD-ROMs can be purchased for £32. Otherwise, they cost £20 each. Also available in: Heffers (Trinity Street, Cambridge); Cambridgeshire Collection (for address see below) and other locations.
Addresses and Libraries
British Library Map Library, Map Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB
Tel: 020 412 7702; Fax: 020 412 7780; email: ;
The largest publicly accessible map collection in Britain. The British Library bookshop sells an excellent range of books on cartography and also a number of facsimile maps.
Cambridge University Library Map Department, West Road, Cambridge,
CB3 9DR. Tel: 01223 333041; Fax: 01223 333160; email: ;
Well over 1 million maps of all parts of the world. Legal Deposit Library so receives a copy of each map published in Great Britain. Admission ticket required (contact the Admissions Office 01223-333084 for details).
Cambridgeshire Collection, Cambridge Central Library
7 Lion Yard, Cambridge, CB2 3QD. Tel: 01223 712000, Fax: 01223 712018,
email:
Comprehensive collection of maps, views, directories, books, etc. concerning Cambridgeshire past and present. Also sells some facsimiles (see above) and provides access to Ordnance Survey digital data of the County (see above).
County Record Office, Shire Hall, Castle Hill, Cambridge,CB3 0AP
Tel: 01223 717281; Fax: 01223 717201; email:
Large collection of official mapping for the Cambridgeshire area, as well as a good range of OS maps and plans plus manuscript items from the 17th to 20th century. Also sells facsimiles (see above).
Anne Taylor, Head of the Map Department, Cambridge University Library (contact details as above)
24 July 2003 & 11 November 2003 notices.guides.4 exhibition guide.doc
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Cambridge University Library Map Department
Information Sheet – 4
Produced to accompany an exhibition held in the Library in 2003
Unfolding Landscapes:
Maps of Cambridgeshire from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II
Finding out More
Facsimile Maps
Facsimiles of old maps of Cambridgeshire can be acquired from the following sources:
Cambridgeshire Collection, Cambridge Central Library (see below for address)
Has a number of facsimile maps on sale. Of the maps on display in this exhibition, they have available: a slightly later edition of Bowen’s map of Cambridgeshire (1753); a map by J Blaeu which is very similar to the Hondius map of the Fens (1632).
County Record Office(see below for address)
Also sells a number of facsimiles - maps of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, and views. Of the maps on display in this exhibition they have available copies of: Saxton’s map (1576); Kip’s 1607 map; Ogilby’s strip map (1675).
Also available are:
Cambridge 1574-1904. A portfolio of 12 facsimile maps illustrating the changing plan of Cambridgeshire from the 16th to the early 20th century. Published by the Cambridgeshire Records Society. Includes copies of the Lyne (1574) and the Loggan (1688) maps. Copies available from the Cambridgeshire Collection (address below).
Baker’s map of the University and town of Cambridge (1830). Published by the Cambridgeshire Records Society. Copies available from the Cambridgeshire Collection (address below).
Alan Godfrey Maps, publish reducedreproductions of Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 County Series maps with additional text describing local history, etc; and reproductions of Ordnance Survey one-inch maps. Available in some local bookshops or contact: Prospect Business Park, Leadgate, Consett, DH8 7PW.Tel: 01207 583388; Fax: 01207 583399; email:
Note: The libraries listed below will also be able to provide reproductions of many of the items in their collections.
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Societies
Charles Close Society – CCS
The objective of the Charles Close Society is to ‘bring together all those with any interest in the maps, plans, related materials and other activities of the Ordnance Surveys of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Ireland, and to promote the exchange of information, and encourage and co-ordinate research’. Substantial newsletter (Sheetlines) and active publication and meeting programmes.
Membership Secretary: Rodney Leary, 18 Downton View, Ludlow, Shropshire,
SY8 1JF
The International Map Collectors' Society – IMCoS
‘Members include collectors, dealers, librarians, academics and just plain dabblers’. Publishes a quarterly journal. Regular meetings in Great Britain and abroad.
Membership Secretary: Patrick Whitten, Parsonage House, Woodbury, Nr Exeter, Devon, EX5 1EG. email:
Publications
Discovering antique maps / Alan G. Hodgkiss. 5th ed., rev. and expanded. Princes Risborough: Shire, 1996. ISBN: 0747803072. Series: Discovering series; 98.
A useful introduction to the history of cartography.
English maps: a history / Catherine Delano-Smith and Roger J. P. Kain. London: British Library, 1999. ISBN: 0712346090; 0712346600 (pbk). Series: British Library studies in map history; v.2.
A scholarly and readable volume.
Maps, land and society: a history, with a carto-bibliography of Cambridgeshire estate maps, c.1600-1836 / A. Sarah Bendall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN: 052141055x
Ordnance Survey maps: a concise guide for historians / by Richard Oliver. London: Charles Close Society, 1993 (1994 [reprint with minor corrections]) ISBN: 187059813x
Essential reading for anyone interested in Ordnance Survey maps.
An atlas of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire history / edited by Tony Kirby and Susan Oosthuizen. Cambridge: Centre for Regional Studies, Anglia Polytechnic University, 2000. ISBN: 0907262198
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Buying Modern Maps
Most of the bookshops in Cambridge (as in other towns) stock a variety of maps including Ordnance Survey small scale maps (1:25,000 and 1:50,000 and less detailed scales) as well as maps from other publishers.
Detailed Ordnance Survey maps (at scales of 1:10,000, 1:2,500 and 1:1,250, etc.) can only be bought from appointed Ordnance Survey Agents. A full list of these is available on the Ordnance Survey web site In Cambridge you need to contact:
Blackwell’s Map Centre, Unit 3, The Enterprise Centre, 61 Ditton Walk, Cambridge CB5 8QD
Tel: 01223 568417; Fax: 01223 568416; email: .
Can also supply reproductions of old Ordnance Survey maps.
For Cambridgeshire, the Public Library is able to supply A4 printed maps from the Ordnance Survey digital data of the County. Contact:
Cambridgeshire Collection, Cambridge Central Library (see below for address)
If you have access to Cambridge University Library, you can also buy (for non-commercial uses only) A4 printouts from the Ordnance Survey digital data. This is available for the whole country. You must visit the Map Department to take advantage of this service.
Cambridge University Library Map Department (see below for address)
Staff and students of Cambridge University can register to use Digimap, a web-based service providing access to current Ordnance Survey data at various scales. See for more details. Contact Cambridge University Library Map Department for registration information.
Web Sites
Odden’s Bookmarks
Over 20,000 cartographic links
Map History / History of Cartography, THE Gateway to the Subject
Packed with information!
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