Cairt, the ever-useful news sheet from the Map Room of the National Library of Scotland has arrived. It carries the announcment that the OS Books of Reference for the 25 inch OS maps of the 19th century are now available online.
You can seach for any parish and I just looked up Stirling; You need to use this information in conjunction with the ,maps themselves but those, too, are available online via the NLS itself.
Each plot of land, house, garden and so on, is summarily described - even saying that some land is arable, other pasture and so on.
Perhaps even more useful, the Ordnance Survey Name Books are going on line. They are not yet complete but Stirlingshire is there! These are uniquely useful for a thousand things and, whilst they have been available in specialist libraries and archives in the past, this is a great deal more convenient.
You can seach for any parish and I just looked up Stirling; You need to use this information in conjunction with the ,maps themselves but those, too, are available online via the NLS itself.
Each plot of land, house, garden and so on, is summarily described - even saying that some land is arable, other pasture and so on.
Perhaps even more useful, the Ordnance Survey Name Books are going on line. They are not yet complete but Stirlingshire is there! These are uniquely useful for a thousand things and, whilst they have been available in specialist libraries and archives in the past, this is a great deal more convenient.
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