Weymouth & Portland Then Meets Now - Hardcover

Attwooll, Maureen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1871164869 ISBN 13: 9781871164862

Publisher: Dorset Books, 2011

Synopsis

WEYMOUTH & PORTLAND:Then meets Now looks
at the borough's history through maps which date
from the Tudor period up to the twentieth
century.
Early county maps were often decorative and
colourful, but although they showed the locations
of towns and villages, and indicated features such
as hills, woods and rivers, few provided the
traveller with any information about routes which
would enable him to travel from place to place.
It was the Ordnance Survey, set up in the late
eighteenth century as the Board of Ordnance to
survey and map Great Britain for military purposes,
which provided the first of the detailed and
accurate standardised maps that we rely on today.
It is fitting that this book, which contains extracts
of many O/S maps from the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, is published 200 years after
the first Ordnance Survey map of Dorset was
produced in 1811.
The majority of the maps included are of
Weymouth and Portland and the surrounding
villages which now lie within the borough boundary.
Also featured are sections of some of the
early county maps - these often provide interesting
and lesser-known aspects of the area, such as
lost place-names and shipwreck sites.
Accompanying each map are pictures old and
new to illustrate some of the changes each area
has undergone since the map's publication.
Together they show just what has altered and
what - remarkably - has stayed the same.
Presentation and layout is refreshingly different
The past is revisited with renewed vigour.
WEYMOUTH & PORTLAND:Then Meets Now will
be a must for locals and visitors alike.

About this title

Product Description:

John Speed's 1601 map of Dorsetshire contains place names and an indication of topography but it is the Ordnance Survey of 1811 that first presents a precise arrangement of the geography to compare with later developments. Reviewing a selection of over 70 historic maps from a Tudor town plan to the 1957 Ordnance Survey, this book studies the changes in Weymouth and Portland over the centuries, supported by historic illustrations and archive and modern photographs.

About the Author:

Maureen Attwooll is co-author of
several books on Weymouth's history
including Weymouth: An Illustrated History,
Seaside Weymouth and Weymouth and
Portland at War: Countdown to D-Day,
and more recently the popular books
Weymouth - The Golden Years,Weymouth
- More Golden Years,Weymouth Century,
Weymouth Revisited, The Bumper Book of
Weymouth and The Second Bumper Book
ofWeymouth.
She has also written Shipwrecks in the
Discover Dorset series, as well as
contributing articles on various aspects

About this edition

• Publisher: Dorset Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1871164869
• ISBN 13: 9781871164862
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144