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Richard,
Thankyou for your helpful suggestions. In a way I'm reassured that I wasn't just being dense when I couldn't see a correlation - I have only a minimal time to spend on our map collection, so am no specialist.
I had thought of getting back to the reader for some placenames or landmarks (it's a postal query), but I hadn't considered getting in touch with the public library's local history section.
I'm hoping the problem will be solved when Nick Millea sends what I think is a cross-index that they have acquired as a spin-off from a digitization project at the Bodleian.
Helen
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From: A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Oliver
Sent: 21 May 2007 09:32
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Subject: Re: 1:2500 O.S. map references
I am afraid that there is no compatibility whatever between the National Grid references your enquirer has, and the County Series numbering of the maps that you hold! Perhaps he or she should be asked to name some places!
I seem to recall that Canterbury has a more-than-halfway-decent town library with a helpful local studies section. I should be VERY surprised if they didn't have an index to the County Series 1:2500 mapping of Kent!
Richard Oliver
(Satisfied customer of said library just about three years ago.)
On Thu, 17 May 2007 15:21:56 +0100 Helen Jarvis <[log in to unmask]>
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> I have been asked if we hold OS 1:2500 maps published in the 1950s, and given TR and TQ grid references.
> Although we don't have them, we do have some published in the 1930s which may be of interest, but they have a different numbering system (Roman numerals + NE, SW, etc.). Is there any way of determining the corresponding sheet no. for the earlier series, other than a rough guess?
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> Helen Jarvis, Assistant Librarian (Senior Cataloguer) Collection
> Resources Management, Templeman Library University of Kent, Giles
> Lane, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NU Tel. 01227 764000, ext. 3128
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Richard Oliver, B.A., D.Phil., F.B.Cart.S., Research Fellow in the History of Cartography School of Geography, Archaeology & Earth Resources University of Exeter Exeter, EX4 4RJ