I cannot find "Oatlands" in census reports, although there was an ecclesiastical parish called Oatlands, founded in 1869:
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10078933
To find that, I had to use the expert search option for administrative units. Searching on the VoB home page for "Oaklands Park" led me only to two entries in descriptive gazetteers. The Imperial Gazetteer has a surprisingly long entry for what it calls a chapelry (although Youngs does not list it as such):
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=973970
The quickest way to see it on maps is to type "Weybridge" or "Walton on Thames" into the VoB home page, then click on the map on the "place page" that comes up. That takes you into our map library, already zoomed into the area you are interested in.
Once into the map library, click on "bigger map" at the top right of the map (to get a bigger map!), then start zooming in. You can then see the Oaklands Park area at three different dates: mid-19th century, when it was clearly a big landscaped park; the 1920s (using the base map in the Land Utilisation Survey mapping); and the 1940s in the New Popular maps.
I also tried searching the travel writing collection, but the only match for "oaklands" was George Borrow writing about a wood in north Wales.
Humphrey Southall
>>> GATLEY David A <[log in to unmask]> 08/12/2009 14:57 >>>
You could try Humphrey Southall at Portsmouth.
Look at his Vision of Britain web site if you've not done so.
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Subject: [LOCAL-HISTORY] Charting the growth of a village from 1850?
Hi
I'm new to local history and am trying to determine the growth of
Oatlands Park, a village between Walton on Thames and Weybridge in
Surrey that, basically, didn't exist before the former Duke of York's
estate was sold by auction in 1849, being broken up into building plots.
Was building 'controlled' by local councils at this time? i.e. is it
possible to see the order of building from council records if they still
exist?
Does anybody know where I can obtain full-sheets of the OS-maps? The
sheets being Surrey S.X1.12 for the 1:2500 published in 1883 and 1890.
Ideally I'd like to get these and any later ones in sorme sort of
digital form so that I can 'overlay' them. They exist in the local
library but the A4 copies of parts are very awkward and messy to tape
together and they seem to be distorted so that I cannot 'scan and join'
them.
Being new (though I've been doing genealogy/family history for about 30
years) and advice would be very welcomed.
Thanks
Duncan Amos
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