SOURCES & REFS
Principal Sources & References
References in the text to specific maps are to those in the author's collection.
Publishers’ indexes, advertisements and notes in various contemporary guidebooks in author's collection. Although the indexes were not specifically dated, publication can be determined from other dated advertisements, which can be a few years after the displayed publication date of the book itself
National Library for Scotland website, https://maps.nls.uk. Highly recommended. As well as information, this site includes accessible seamless mapping for various editions of Bartholomew half-inch maps, O.S. 6”, 1”, ½” and ¼” to the mile and miscellaneous other maps for the whole of Great Britain. Other maps and map series are viewable as individual sheets. 1940s Bartholomew quarter-inch and OS one-inch and quarter-inch mapping of Ireland is also available on this site (select Geo-referenced Maps; UK; Ireland is listed in the drop-down menu). Gall & Inglis productions will be found under their name, but also under Inglis, Stephen & Pollock, A. Ronald Easton and S. Campbell. Under Macpherson are maps by Bartholomew and G. W. Bacon.
A Description of the Ordnance Survey small-scale maps. 5th edition 1925, 6th edition 1927, 8th edition, 1935, 1947 edition. Published by Director General, Ordnance Survey.
The Historian's Guide to Ordnance Survey Maps. Based on articles in The Amateur Historian and published by the National Council of Social Service 1964
Map Cover Art. J. P. Browne 1980.
A Brief Guide to dating Bartholomew Maps by Ken Winch, former Bartholomew’s Librarian and Map Curator. The reference to CTC information should refer to 1901 not 1911.
Ordnance Survey: Mapmakers to Britain since 1791, Tim Owen & Elaine Pilbeam, HMSO 1992. $ Concentrates on the O.S. as an organisation more than its actual products. Insights into its relationships with commercial map producers
https://www.victorian-maps-of-devon.eu/index.php. A website of Victorian maps of Devon compiled by Kit Batten and Francis Bennet.
The Map of England. Col. Sir Charles Close (former Director-General of the Ordnance Survey), 1932.
Examples of early (19th c.) half-inch OS mapping can be found on the www.visionofbritain.org.uk website, under the Boundaries section, giving county boundaries as at 1900. In some cases the base map is that forming the later (first public) series issued from 1902, but lacking some detail such as heights. The earlier maps have ‘Scale of this Index Two Miles to One Inch’, the latter ‘Scale - Two Miles to One Inch’.
Bartholomew: A Scottish family heritage. The Bartholomew family archive. http://www.johnbartholomew.com. The full company archive is housed in the Map Library of the National Library of Scotland (see above)
Michelin Guide1913. See also http://archives.michelin.co.uk/in-depth/maps-and-guides
http://www.oldessexmaps.co.uk. Although covering maps of Essex only, much useful dating information on a number of publishers.
The Wheelman’s Year Book with Diary and Almanac for 1881, W. T. Welford & H. T. Round, Newcastle on Tyne, 1880
Biography of Cycling compiled by H. Blackwell, appearing in ‘Icycles’, Christmas Annual of Wheel World magazine, 1880.
Advert for Bartholomew's Irish quarter-inch series in Survey Gazetteer of Great Britain, 1904, p927
Catalogue in Philips’ Handy Atlas of England, c. 1880.
Adverts in various Black’s, Stanford’s and Murray’s Guides in author's collection or browsable on the internet. Dates taken from those in accompanying advertisements, e.g. railways, which may be a few years after quoted publication date on book frontispiece.
Cyclist’s Road Book, Charles Spencer, revised edition, 1899. National Cycling Collection, Llandrindod. Also readable copy on Hathi Trust Digital Library - https://babel.hathitrust.org
Cyclist’s & Motorist’s Road Book by Charles Spencer, revised by Reginald Wellbye, c. 1925 National Cycling Collection, Llandrindod.
Victorian Maps of the British Isles, David Smith 1985. Good on the development of map printing techniques and catalogues the various editions of the more popular atlases and maps. Covers the broad range of purposes for which maps were produced, but excludes the numerous new map series from the 1890s reduced from the revised Ordnance Survey which are of most relevance to cycling.
Badminton Library: volume on Cycling, p196, 1887
One Hundred Years of Map Making, W. & A. K. Johnston, 1923
CTC Monthly Gazette, various years (National Cycle Collection, Llandrindod Wells)
Letter to Cycling magazine, May 7 1947, by Frank Marriott. Digitalised copy in Members’ Library of the Veteran Cycle Club
Cycle Touring. A. W. Rumney, 1898. Digitalised copy in Members’ Library of the Veteran Cycle Club
Advert in Roads of England & Wales, 5th edition, 1889
The rivals: notes on some intermediate-scale commercial topographic map series of Britain & Ireland since 1868. Richard Oliver, Sheetlines 47, 1996 (Journal of the Charles Close Society)
The Lightning Cities and Road Map Company Ltd. Roger Hellyer, Sheetlines 105, 2006 (Journal of the Charles Close Society)
Wheels on the Road: Road Maps of Britain 1870 – 1940. T. R. Nicholson, Geo Books, Norwich. Also includes information on smaller-scale (e.g. national) cycling maps. Good on promotional road maps.
Old Series to Explorer: a Field Guide to the Ordnance Map. Chris Higley, Charles Close Society 2011. A user-friendly catalogue of the Ordnance Survey’s small and medium scale output, with example illustrations
Mapping the Roads: the building of modern Britain. Mike Parker, AA publishing, 2013
Contour Road Books, various editions
Dalesman Magazine, January 1963
The website of SABRE - The Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts. The ‘Network changes’ section lists numerous road openings, though rather patchy. The 1935 numbering changes can be found at
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=1935_Road_numbering_revision
Publishers’ Circular, 1880 – 1890, available at The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) at https://ncse.ac.uk/periodicals
A Catalogue of Works of Natural History, Science Art etc by Hardwicke & Bogue, London 1877.
Geographic Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society), various years. It included a monthly summary of new OS editions (generally just England & Wales), plus such maps as had been submitted for notice by commercial publishers. These would normally be those just published, though in some cases these could be revised editions (e.g. receipt of the first six of Bartholomew’s Scottish half-inch series)