Maps of Reading

Maps of Reading

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Insurance Plan of Reading: sheet 2-1

1 : 480 This detailed 1895 plan of Reading is one of a series of thirteen sheets in an atlas originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Chas E Goad Limited Chas E Goad Limited
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Insurance Plan of Reading: sheet 2-3

1 : 480 This detailed 1895 plan of Reading is one of a series of thirteen sheets in an atlas originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Chas E Goad Limited Chas E Goad Limited
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Insurance Plan of Reading: sheet 7-1

1 : 480 This detailed 1895 plan of Reading is one of a series of thirteen sheets in an atlas originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Chas E Goad Limited Chas E Goad Limited
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Insurance Plan of Reading: Key Plan

1 : 4800 This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1895 series of fire insurance maps of Reading that were originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Chas E Goad Limited Chas E Goad Limited
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Berkshire XXXVII.3 (includes: Reading) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Berkshire XXXVII.3 (includes: Reading) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Berkshire XXXVII.3 (includes: Reading) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Berkshire XXXVII.3 (includes: Reading) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Berkshire XXXVII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Berkshire XXXVII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Berkshire XXXVII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Berkshire XXXVII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Berkshire XXXVII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Berkshire XXXVII - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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SU77 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map

1 : 25000 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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The third sheet of an actual survey of Berkshire

1 Blatt : 68 x 52 cm John Rocque
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Reading (Hills) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Reading (Outline) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Reading 19

1 : 31680 This drawing has been shaded to give an indication of relative relief. Against this block shading, the network of roads stands out clearly in white. The Thames and its tributaries are turquoise and the draughtsman has indicated the various islands between its banks. In the bottom right, an ink inscription reads: 'This Plan belon[gs to the] Board of Ord[nance] W [Mudge] Col...' Dawson, Robert
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Estates at Windsor, Berkshire

This is a manuscript map of the area surrounding Windsor in Berkshire. It forms part of an atlas that belonged to William Cecil Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I’s Secretary of State. Burghley used this atlas to illustrate domestic matters. Burghley was in charge of administration for the Royal Estate of Windsor. The Royal Estates were notoriously slackly administered, a flaw that no official involved was keen to remedy as there were considerable personal advantages to be gained from inadequacies in the system. The map is drawn to scale with a scale bar of 5.5 - 6 miles. The many parks are shown by enclosure symbols, an important feature of any landscape for military purposes as it was in parks that troops could rest and horses graze. Communication routes such as roads and pathways are indicated by double or single broken lines and the rivers and the points at which they are bridged are also shown. The waterways were a vital communication route at the time, especially in this area where the Thames provides direct access to the centre of London.
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Oxford and Newbury - OS One-Inch Map

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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The Chilterns - OS One-Inch Map

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Aldershot - OS One-Inch Map

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Map of Forests around Windsor

Map of the forests around Windsor from "A Description of the Honour of Windesor", John Norden's survey of Windsor. The title page states that the survey was "taken and performed by the perambulation view and delineation of John Norden In Anno 1607". The plans are the result of a survey conducted on foot by Norden. The maps in this volume show communication routes, individual buildings, field boundaries and parkland along with details of wildlife and human activity, such as stags in Windsor Park and people boating on the Thames. The scale at which the maps are presented varies throughout the volume, with feet, perches and miles being the units of measurement recorded by a scale bar. John Norden is best known for his work "Speculum Britainiae", literally a "Mirror of Britain", which in its attempt to include the road names and town plans, lacking on many county maps of the period, was a direct ancestor of the modern A-Z. As well as producing several county maps in the 1590s, Norden worked as a land surveyor producing surveys for landowners and was the author of a work which outlines principles of surveying, known as the "Surveyor's Dialogue". Norden, John
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Hamp Shire ; Berk Shire ; Wilt Shire

1 : 330000 Berkshire (Anglie) Moll, Herman
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A map of the county of Berks

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 43 x 66 cm Rocque; Rocque published according to act of parliament by Mary Ann Rocque near old Round Court in the Strand
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An accurate map of Berkshire

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 52 x 68 cm Bowen; Tinney; Bowles; Sayer; Bowles; Bowles sold by I. Bowles and son in Cornhill T. Bowles in St. Pauls church yard I. Tinney at the Golden Lion and R. Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet street
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Bercheria vernacule Bark Shire

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 37 x 48 cm Blaeu Joan Blaeu
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An accurate map of Buckingham Shire

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 69 x 52 cm Bowen; Tinney; Bowles; Sayer; Bowles; Bowles sold by I. Tinney at the golden lion and R. Sayer at the golden buck in Fleet street T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church yard and I. Bowles and son in Cornhill
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