Ordnance Survey maps

Maps published by Ordnance Survey and related bodies, including the War Office (ca. 1840s-1960s). The maps are ordered below by country, from larger scales (most detailed maps) to smaller scales (less detailed maps), followed by indexes and characteristics sheets (symbols and legends).

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Map Series - Scotland

Ordered from larger scales (most detailed maps) to smaller scales (less detailed maps):

• 360 inch to the mile / 30 feet to one-inch (1:360):
  • Scottish military maps, 20th century - 57 sheets
• 50 inch / 120 inch to the mile (1:500, 1:528, 1:1056):
  • Ordnance Survey large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - 62 towns; 1,872 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, 1:1,250 National Grid maps, 1944-1973 - 109,252 sheets
• 25 inch to the mile (1:2,500):
  • Ordnance Survey, 25 inch to the mile, 1st edition - 1855-1882 - 14,735 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, 25 inch to the mile, 2nd and later editions - 1892-1949 - 17,466 map sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, 25 inch to the mile, "blue-and-black" drawings - 694 map sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, 1:2,500 National Grid maps, 1944-1973 - 116,111 sheets
• Six-inch to the mile (1:10,560):
  • Ordnance Survey, Six-inch to the mile, 1st edition - 1843-1882 - 3,864 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Six-inch to the mile, 2nd and later editions - 1892-1960 - 7,486 map sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, 1:10,560 National Grid maps, 1944-1973 - 25,335 sheets
• 1:20,000 / 1:25,000:
  • War Office, Great Britain 1:20,000, GSGS 2748 - 1923-1929 - 21 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, 1:25,000 maps of Great Britain - 1945-1973 (Provisional - Coloured) - 5,102 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, 1:25,000 maps of Great Britain - 1945-1973 (Provisional - Outline) - 4,139 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, 1:25,000 maps of Great Britain - 1964-1973 (Second Series) - 188 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey / War Office, Great Britain and Ireland 1:25,000. GSGS 3906, 1940-43 - 840 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, 1:25,000 Administrative Area Series of Great Britain, 1945-1968 - 1,130 sheets
• One-inch to the mile (1:63,360):
  • Ordnance Survey, One-inch to the mile, 1st edition - 1856-1891 - 539 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-inch to the mile, 2nd edition - 1885-1900 - 444 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch with coloured parishes - Indexes to the Six-inch and 25 Inch Maps, 1894-1904 - 104 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-inch to the mile, 3rd edition - 1903-1912 - 642 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-inch to the mile, 4th edition - 1910 - 2 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-inch "popular" edition, Scotland, 1921-1930 - 125 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-inch "popular" edition, Scotland, 1921-1930 (Outline) - 91 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-inch "popular" Scotland, ca. 1930s (Water and Contour Pulls) - 71 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey / War Office, One-Inch Popular. GSGS 3908 - 1933-43 - 260 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-inch "popular", 1941-42 (Outline edition, water in blue) - 79 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey / German Army, Karte von Schottland 1:50,000, 1941 - 70 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-inch "popular" with National Grid, Scotland, 1945-1947 - 102 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-inch "popular" with National Grid, Scotland, 1945-1947 (Outline) - 89 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey / War Office, Scotland One-Inch Popular GSGS 4639, 1947-50 - 64 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch, Glasgow District - Administrative Areas, 1950-52 - 3 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch, Glasgow District - Administrative Areas, 1955-66 - 3 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch Seventh Series, Great Britain, 1952-1973 (Regular) - 857 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch Seventh Series, Great Britain, 1952-1973 (Outline) - 187 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch Seventh Series, Great Britain, 1954-1965 (Indexes) - 14 sheets
• Half-inch to the mile (1:126,720):
  • Ordnance Survey, Half-Inch to the mile, Scotland, 1908-1918 (hill-shaded) - 53 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Half-Inch to the mile, Scotland, 1908-1918 (layer-coloured) - 48 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Half-inch Ministry of Transport road maps, Scotland, 1923 - 37 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey / German Army, Karte von Schottland 1:100,000, 1939-40 - 34 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Half-Inch to the mile, Scotland, 1942 (Outline, Water in Blue) - 34 sheets
• Quarter-inch to the mile (1:253,440):
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 1st ed., 1901-1914 - 25 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 1st ed., 1900-1906 (Coloured with Hills) - 16 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 1st ed., 1900-1906 (Outline) - 20 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 2nd ed., 1909-1914 - 2 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 3rd ed., 1921-1923 - 27 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 3rd ed., 1921-1924 (Outline) - 11 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 3rd ed., 1929-1930 (Civil Air) - 16 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 3rd ed., 1940-1941. (RAF Edition (War)) - 1 sheet
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 3rd ed., 1940-1941. RAF (War) 2nd Edition - 16 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 4th ed., 1935-37 (Colour) - 8 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Administrative Areas, 1938-49 - 16 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey / German Army, Fliegerausgabe Grossbritannien 1:250 000 : Schottland, 1939-40 - 6 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 4th ed., 1941 (Outline) - 5 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 4th ed., 1939-41 (Military Edition, GSGS 3958) - 7 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 4th ed., 1939-41 (War Revision, 1940, GSGS 3958) - 17 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 4th ed., 1943-44 (War Revision (Army/Air), 1940, GSGS 3958) - 10 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 4th ed., (with National Grid), 1946 (Coloured) - 17 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 4th ed., (with National Grid), 1946 (Outline) - 7 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 4th ed., (with National Grid) (War Office Edition, GSGS 4650) - 22 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 4th ed., (with National Grid) (RAF Topographical Map, GSGS 4864) - 1 sheet
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Administrative Areas, 1950-52 (with Glasgow District 1:63,360) - 19 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Administrative Areas, 1955-66 (with Glasgow District 1:63,360) - 39 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, Administrative Areas, 1966-73 - 17 sheets
• Ordnance Survey, Air Photo Mosaics of Scotland, 1944-1950 - 221 sheets
• Ordnance Survey, "ten mile" Planning Maps of the United Kingdom, 1940s-1970s - 183 sheets
• Ordnance Survey, small-scale maps of Great Britain, 19th to 20th centuries - 35 sheets

Map Series - England, Wales and Great Britain

Ordered from larger scales (most detailed maps) to smaller scales (less detailed maps):

• 50 inch / 120 inch to the mile (1:500, 1:528, 1:1056):
  • Ordnance Survey Town Plans of England and Wales, 1840s-1890s - 12,115 sheets / 440 towns
  • Ordnance Survey, 1:1,250/1:2,500 National Grid maps, 1944-1972 - 109,252 sheets
• 25 inch to the mile (1:2,500):
  • Ordnance Survey, 25 inch, England and Wales - 1841-1952 - 89,540 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, 1:2,500 National Grid maps, 1944-1973 - 116,111 sheets
• 12 inches to the mile (1:5,280):
  • Ordnance Survey, Air - map of Salisbury - 1919 - 1 sheet
• Six-inch to the mile (1:10,560):
  • Ordnance Survey, Six-Inch, England and Wales - 1842-1952 - 37,397 sheets
    • OS Six-Inch, Special Emergency Edition - 1938-39 - 73 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, 1:10,560 National Grid maps, 1944-1973 - 25,335 sheets
• 1:12,500:
  • London (G.S.G.S. 4157), Reduced from 6 inch maps, with A.R.P. revision, 1940s - 17 sheets
• 1:20,000 / 1:25,000:
  • Ordnance Survey, 1:25,000 maps of Great Britain - 1945-1973 (Provisional - Coloured) - 5,102 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, 1:25,000 maps of Great Britain - 1945-1973 (Provisional - Outline) - 4,139 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, 1:25,000 maps of Great Britain - 1964-1973 (Second Series) - 188 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, 1:25,000 Administrative Area Series of Great Britain, 1945-1968 - 1,130 sheets
• Two-Inch to the mile (1:31,680):
  • London, Ministry of Transport Road Map, 1923 - 6 sheets
  • London (Showing London Passenger Transport Boundaries), 1935 - 12 sheets
• One-inch to the mile (1:63,360):
  • New (Dec 2024) Ordnance Survey, One-Inch Maps, England and Wales, 'Old Series', 1801-1869 - 746 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch Maps, England and Wales, 1872-1914 - 2,574 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch with coloured parishes - Indexes to the Six-inch and 25 Inch Maps, 1894-1904 - 235 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch 3rd Edition (Black Outline Edition), 1906-1917 - 54 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch 'Popular' edition, England and Wales, 1919-1926 (Regular) - 144 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch 'Popular' edition, England and Wales, 1919-1926 (Outline) - 144 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch 'Popular' edition, England and Wales, 1919-1934 (District/Special/Tourist, etc.) - 49 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch 'Popular' edition, England and Wales, 1934 (London Passenger Transport Map) - 24 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch 5th edition, England and Wales, 1931-1937 (Regular) - 59 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch 5th edition, England and Wales, 1931-1937 (Black Outline) - 50 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch 5th edition, England and Wales, 1931-1937 (Physical Features) - 22 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch 5th edition, England and Wales, 1931-1937 (Special District and Tourist Maps) - 5 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey / War Office, One-Inch Popular, England and Wales. GSGS 3907 - 1933-43 - 290 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch New Popular edition, England and Wales, 1945-1947 (Regular) - 114 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch New Popular, edition, England and Wales, 1945-1947 (Outline) - 104 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch New Popular, edition, England and Wales, GSGS (Misc) 1560. Exercise Surprise Packet, 1951 - 13 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch New Popular, edition, England and Wales, GSGS: 4692, 1951 - 1 sheet
  • Ordnance Survey / War Office, One-Inch New Popular, England and Wales. GSGS 4620 - 1948-52 - 3 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch Seventh Series, Great Britain, 1952-1973 (Regular) - 857 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch Seventh Series, Great Britain, 1952-1973 (Outline) - 187 sheets
• Half-inch to the mile (1:126,720):
  • Ordnance Survey, Half-Inch, England and Wales, Administrative Boundaries, 1899-1972 - 1,371 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Half-Inch, England and Wales (layer-coloured), 1906-1918 - 67 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Half-Inch, England and Wales, 1903-1912 (hill-shaded) - 132 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Half-inch Ministry of Transport road maps, England and Wales, 1923 - 41 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Half-Inch, England and Wales, 1930-42 (Outline) - 42 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Half-Inch, England and Wales, 1956 Provisional - 1 sheet
  • Ordnance Survey, Half-Inch, England and Wales, 1958-66 Second series - 9 sheets
• Quarter-inch to the mile (1:253,440):
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 1st ed., 1902-1903 - 19 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 1st ed., 1899-1901 (Outline) - 20 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 2nd ed., 1908-1913 - 16 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 2nd ed., 1912-1915 (Large sheet - Black Outline) - 10 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 3rd ed., 1919-1921 - 12 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 3rd ed. [New Series], 1926-1930 - 6 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 3rd ed., 1923 (Outline, with water in blue) - 10 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 3rd ed., 1926-1930 (Outline) [New Series] - 5 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 3rd ed., 1929-1934 (Civil Air) - 36 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 4th ed., 1934-39 (Colour) - 16 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 4th ed., 1935-36 (Black (Outline)) - 8 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 4th ed., 1941-44 (Outline with water in blue) - 4 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 4th ed., 1939-41 (Military Edition, GSGS 3957) - 6 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 4th ed., 1940-43 (War Revision, 1940, GSGS 3957) - 12 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 4th ed., 1943 (2nd War Revision, 1943 (Graticule Edition), GSGS 3957) - 10 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 4th ed., 1943 (GSGS:3957 (Air)) - 6 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, Defences of Britain (including "Overlord") 1945 - 6 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 4th ed., (with National Grid), 1946 (Coloured) - 20 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 4th ed., (with National Grid), 1945 (Outline) - 1 sheet
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, 4th ed., (with National Grid) (GSGS 4628) - 11 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-inch to the mile, England and Wales, Fifth series - 6 sheets
• Ordnance Survey, "ten mile" Planning Maps of the United Kingdom, 1940s-1970s - 183 sheets
• Ordnance Survey, small-scale maps of Great Britain, 19th to 20th centuries - 35 sheets
• Ordnance Survey, Air Photo Mosaics of England and Wales, 1944-1950 - 6,173 sheets

Map Series - Ireland and Northern Ireland

Ordered from larger scales (most detailed maps) to smaller scales (less detailed maps):

• Six-inch to the mile (1:10,560/ 1:10,000):
  • Ordnance Survey, Six-Inch, Ireland and Northern Ireland - 1829-1969 - 4,705 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland, Irish Grid Series, 1:10,560/1:10,000, 1962-1973 - 111 sheets
• One-inch to the mile (1:63,360):
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch, Ireland - 1859-1917 - 1,069 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch, Ireland, 2nd ed., Administrative - 1898-1902 - 202 sheets
  • War Office, One-Inch, Ireland, (Large sheet series) G.S.G.S. 4136 - 1940-1942 - 124 sheets
• 1:25,000:
  • Ordnance Survey / War Office, Great Britain and Ireland 1:25,000. GSGS 3906, 1943-55 - 10 sheets

Map Series - Channel Islands

• Ordnance Survey / War Office / Ministry of Defence, Maps of the Channel Islands, 1900-1970 - 72 sheets

Map Series - Belgium / France

• Ordnance Survey / War Office, British First World War Trench Maps, 1915-1918 - 307 sheets

Map Series of Hong Kong

• Collinson's Maps of Hong Kong, 1846 - 4 sheets

Indexes of larger scale maps (at 25-inch and six-inch to the mile)

• Scotland:
  • Ordnance Survey, Indexes to the County Series maps, Scotland, 1854-1886 - 32 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-Inch to the mile, Indexes to County Series - 1890s-1960s - 109 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Half-Inch to the mile, Indexes to County Series and National Grid - ca. 1966 - 35 sheets
• England and Wales:
  • Ordnance Survey, Indexes to the County Series maps, England and Wales, 1887-1897 - 36 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-Inch to the mile, County Diagrams. Showing Civil Parishes with tables of their areas - 1897-1913 - 54 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-Inch to the mile, Combined Index maps - 1879-1965 - 408 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Quarter-Inch to the mile, Couny Series Index maps - 1921-1924 - 175 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, Half-Inch to the mile, County Diagrams. Indexes to County Series, 1932-1946 - 172 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, 1:100,000, Indexes to County Series and National Grid sheets, 1966-1972 - 53 sheets
• England, Scotland, and Wales:
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch with coloured parishes - Indexes to the Six-Inch and 25 Inch Maps, 1894-1904 - 339 sheets
  • Ordnance Survey, One-Inch Seventh Series, 1954-1965 (Indexes) - 14 sheets
  • Zoomable graphic indexes showing records for large-scale Ordnance Survey mapping of Great Britain (1841-1991)

Characteristics Sheets

• Ordnance Survey Characteristics Sheet collection - symbols, features, styles for lettering, and stamps, ca. 1840s-1920s

Early Digital Cartography

• Ordnance Survey, Early Digital Cartography, 1970-1972 - examples of Ordnance Survey's initial work in automated / digital mapping

Missing maps

• Ordnance Survey, Missing maps - Large-scale maps of Great Britain not held by the National Library of Scotland