Cornwall Maps: Difference between revisions

The most useful printed maps are the OS maps and a good street atlas. The latter, such as Philip's Street Atlas of Cornwall, is more useful for finding streets in the larger towns.  The best resource for locating the more rural properties, hamlets, and farms, is the OS (Ordinance Survey) map series.  The most detailed is the Explorer Series, which is on a scale of 1:25000 and provides extremely useful detail of property boundaries, roads, paths, trails, water and woods features, as well as topographical information.  Cornwall is covered by 11 of these maps, numbers 102-109, 111-112, and a small part on 126.  Some historical OS maps can be found from sources that deal in used books and maps.  More information on the OS maps is found on their website [http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/ http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/]  

It is important to understand that a modern map, such as an OS map, will show the current civil parish, and that the boundaries are often different from those of an ecclesiastical parish.