Ordnance Survey and its History

Sheetlines articles available as PDF downloads:

J.H. Andrews, ‘A record copy of the one-inch Irish hill map’, Sheetlines 30 (1991)
David Archer, ‘No more OS maps as we know them?’, Sheetlines 89 (2010)
Brian Baily, ‘Ordnance Survey data collection and the mapping of tidal features’, Sheetlines 90 (2011)
Steve Burry & Matt Maiden, ‘Ordnance Survey maps now printed by Butler, Tanner & Dennis’, Sheetlines 92 (2011)
Steve Chilton, ‘Ordnance Survey and OpenStreetMap’, Sheetlines 91 (2011)
John Cole, ‘Some aspects of survey for the 1:10,000 map’, Sheetlines 55 (1999)
John Cruickshank and David Archer, ‘OS covers – a glossary of terms’, Sheetlines 18 (1987)
John Cruickshank, ‘The Maps of the Ordnance Survey – As They Are And As They Ought To Be’, Sheetlines 50 (1997)
John Cruickshank, ‘Surveying the administrative boundaries of Lancashire and Yorkshire after the 1841 Ordnance Survey Act’, Sheetlines 92 (2011)
John Cruickshank, ‘Kieran Wade, the man who shows the Russians the way!’, Sheetlines 92 (2011)
Richard Harper, ‘Bringing the past into the digital age’, Sheetlines 90 (2011)
Roger Hellyer, ‘One inch engraved maps with hills: some notes on double printing’, Sheetlines 44 (1995)
Alexander Kent, Ordnance Suvey and cartographic style' (part 1), Sheetlines 87 (2010)
Alexander Kent, Ordnance Suvey and cartographic style' (part 2), Sheetlines 88 (2010)
Ann Marshall, ‘Brain Friel's Translations and the Ordnance Survey of Ireland 1824-1846’, Sheetlines 92 (2011)
Guy Messenger, ‘What happened at Hendon Central in 1941?’, Sheetlines 32 (1992)
Mike Nolan, ‘The haven of rest and the Imperial Geographical Service' Sheetlines 91 (2011)
Richard Oliver, ‘Twenty years of the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 map (1974-1994)’, Sheetlines 39 (1994)
Richard Oliver, ‘A survey party pose(r)’, Sheetlines 75 (2006) and Richard T Porter, ‘A survey party pose(r)' Sheetlines 78 (2007)
Richard Oliver, ‘Unfinished business: the lost Ordnance Survey two-inch mapping of Scotland 1819-1828 and 1852', Sheetlines 78 (2007) and Sheetlines 79 (2007)
Richard Oliver, ‘Why the Ordnance Survey needs its history’, Sheetlines 80 (2007)
Richard Oliver, ‘Accountancy and opacity: another Select Committee and the Ordnance Survey’, Sheetlines 81 (2008)
Richard Oliver, ‘The consumption of Ordnance Survey maps by Government departments in 1884’, Sheetlines 82 (2008)
Richard Oliver, ‘The ‘shading’ of buildings on the 1:2500/1893-1912: its ‘meaning’’, Sheetlines 83 (2008)
Richard Oliver, ‘Lord Salisbury and disagreeable countries’, Sheetlines 83 (2008)
Richard Oliver, ‘Edition codes on Ordnance Survey maps’, Sheetlines 83 (2009)
Richard Oliver, ‘The consultation of the future of Ordnance Survey' Sheetlines 87 (2010)
Richard Oliver, D F Watt, Anthony Cartmell, ‘The consultation of the future of Ordnance Survey' Sheetlines 88 (2010)
Richard Oliver, ‘Photo-zincography and helio-zincography' Sheetlines 90 (2011)
Richard Oliver, ‘Ordnance Survey Act, tidelines and the growth of a myth' Sheetlines 91 (2011)
Mike Parker, ‘The hills are stuffed with OS lawyers’, Sheetlines 89 (2010)
Richard T Porter, ‘Poetic licence' Sheetlines 72 (2005)
Richard T Porter, ‘Theodolite diaphragms' Sheetlines 80 (2007)
Richard T Porter, ‘A rubber stamp in the Ordnance Survey,1877' Sheetlines 84 (2009)
Richard T Porter, ‘An Ordnance Survey art society and its members' Sheetlines 85 (2009)
Richard T Porter, ‘An Ordnance Survey staff association' Sheetlines 85 (2009)
Richard T Porter, ‘Surveyor’s name on an OS map' Sheetlines 88 (2010)
Bob Shannon, ‘My great great grandfather was a leveller and contourer' Sheetlines 88 (2010)
Iain Thornber and Richard Oliver, ‘Colby's camps’, Sheetlines 90 (2011)
R.C. Wheeler, ‘Postscript to Aberystwyth’, Sheetlines 69 (2004)
R.C. Wheeler, ‘Buying an Ordnance Map, 1825’, Sheetlines 69 (2004)
R.C. Wheeler, ‘Difficulties with Landline data’, Sheetlines 69 (2004)
R.C. Wheeler, ‘The use of one-inch maps by a railway promoter’, Sheetlines 70 (2004)
R.C. Wheeler, ‘Popular revision: lessons from Leicester’, Sheetlines 71 (2004)
R.C. Wheeler, ‘The treatment of works projected or in progress’, Sheetlines 72 (2005)
R.C. Wheeler, ‘What is a place?’, Sheetlines 74 (2005)
R.C. Wheeler, ‘The transformation of the Ordnance Survey under Colby’, Sheetlines 76(2006)
R.C. Wheeler, ‘Is Folkestone on the road to Killarney?’, Sheetlines 79 (2007)
R.C. Wheeler, ‘ Plagiarism with large-scale maps’, Sheetlines 81 (2008)
R.C. Wheeler, ‘The shadow of the land surveyor’, Sheetlines 81 (2008)