A History of the Ordnance Survey

Front Cover
W. A. Seymour
Dawson, 1980 - Cartography - 394 pages

Contents

The Origins of the Ordnance Survey
1
The Resumption of the Trigonometrical Survey
31
The Geodesy of Roy Mudge and Kater 17841823
35
The Birth of the Topographical Survey
44
The Beginnings of Reform 181620
53
The Ordnance Survey becomes a MapPublisher 18011820
69
The Survey of Ireland to 1847
81
The Completion of the Primary Triangulation of Scotland
107
Ireland The Land Question and After 18711918
209
The Ordnance Survey 19141918
220
Reconstruction after The First World War 19191922
230
Archaeology The Crawford Period
237
MacLeod and the Davidson Committee 19351939
257
The Retriangulation 19351939
268
The Second World War 19391945
274
The Restoration of the Survey Expansion 19451950
286

The Superintendency of Lewis Alexander Hall
119
Halls Successor
127
The Scales Dispute Henry James 18541863
133
Clarke and the Principal Triangulation
139
The Initial Levelling of Great Britain
145
The Surveys of Jerusalem and Sinai
154
The Last Years of Jamess Superintendency and the Transfer to Civil Control 18641880
161
The Mature Topographical Survey
168
The Expansion 18801891
179
The Dorington Committee
185
A Period of Consolidation 18941913
205
The Restoration of the Survey Consolidation and Recession 19501960
298
The PostWar Trigonometrical Survey and the Third Geodetic Levelling 19451960
307
The Restoration of the Survey The Reappraisal 19611968
318
The Topographical Survey After The Second World War
332
Geodetic Developments 19601974
344
The Restoration of the Survey A New Home and New Aims 19681978
350
Roys General Instructions for the Officers of Engineers employed in Surveying with
363
Ordnance Survey Contours 184790
373
OneInch Map The OneInch Map in Colour More New Maps
385
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