Green and Pleasant Land

The latest addition to the National Library of Scotland’s online maps collection is Historic parks in England map viewer, 1890s-1900s.

This viewer allows you to explore the evolving boundaries of England’s ancient parks and designed landscapes.

What green space was near an ancestral home?

The OS Historic Parks Layer draws on analysis of over 10,000 maps and 1,701 map tiles from the OS 6-Inch 2nd Edition England Maps (1888-1915). Machine learning and deep learning technologies were used to identify and classify the historic symbology used for parks, gardens, and designed landscapes.

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