Map Department Information Sheet 2B Map Collections Outside Cambridge

Map Department

Information Sheet 2B

Map Collections Outside Cambridge

See Information Sheet 2A for details of map collections in Cambridge.

MAJOR BRITISH AND IRISH MAP COLLECTIONS

Bodleian Library Map Room Tel: 01865 287300 Legal Deposit Library with large Weston Library maps@bodleian.ox.ac.uk collection of modern and Broad Street www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/h antiquarian material. Full set of OXFORD ome Ordnance Survey 25” County OX1 3BG Series maps (1st eds. are bound in volumes). ➢ Online catalogue on their website and via Library Hub Discover https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/

British Geological BGS Library Tel: 0115 936 3205 The Survey's library includes Survey Nicker Hill [email protected] geological mapping from all over Keyworth www.bgs.ac.uk/services/library/ the World. NOTTINGHAM home.html NG12 5GG ➢ Their online catalogue is called ENVIROLIB, see links at http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/library/home.html

British Library 96 Euston Road Tel: 020 7412 7702 The largest publicly accessible Map Library LONDON [email protected] map collection in Britain. Legal NW1 2DB www.bl.uk/visit/reading- Deposit Library. Extensive rooms/maps-reading-room and antiquarian holdings. www.bl.uk/subjects/map s

➢ Includes the map collection of the India Office Records, documentary archives of the administration in London of the pre-1947 government of India www.bl.uk/subjects/south-asia which include mapping of Indian sub- continent and the Far East. ➢ Comprehensive Online Catalogue for the map collection is available through the BL’s website http://explore.bl.uk and via Library Hub Discover https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/. The India Office Records can be searched at http://searcharchives.bl.uk/ ➢ See also images in the Online Gallery www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/viewall/index.html

Geological Society Burlington House Tel: 020 7434 9944 (option Extensive collection of geological Piccadilly 3) maps and related documents. LONDON [email protected] Non-members are charged for W1J 0BG www.geolsoc.org.uk/library access (see www.geolsoc.org.uk/Library-and- Information-Services/Visiting-the- Library ➢ Part of the collection can be identified via their online catalogue at www.geolsoc.org.uk/librarycatalogue

Historic England The Engine House Tel: 01793 414600 The public archive of Historic Archive Fire Fly Avenue [email protected] England (new name from 1 April SWINDON https://historicengland.org.uk/ 2015 for English Heritage) SN2 2GZ providing information on the archaeology and architecture of England. Includes maps, plans, drawings, aerial photographs. ➢ Online catalogue https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/

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London 40 Northampton Road Tel: 020 7332 3820 London maps and related Metropolitan Clerkenwell [email protected] documents, including prints and Archives (LMA) LONDON https://search.lma.gov.uk/ drawings. Emphasis is on City of [incorporating the EC1R 0HB London but also have items more Guildhall Library’s general in scope. print and map collection]

•➢ Maps and prints are included on the library's image database, Collage, at https://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/

National 16 Bernard Terrace Tel: 0131 651 6821 One of the largest collections of Collection of EDINBURGH [email protected] aerial imagery in the world, Aerial EH8 9NX https://ncap.org.uk/ containing tens of millions of Photography images featuring historic events (NCAP) and places around the world.

➢ For aerial photographs also try: Britain from Above www.britainfromabove.org.uk/ (website is run jointly by Historic Environment Scotland (HES), Historic England (HE) and The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW)) ; Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography (CUCAP) www.cambridgeairphotos.com/ (some of whose images can be viewed on CUDL at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/landscapehistories/1 ; Ordnance Survey Air Photo Mosaics of Scotland, 1944-1950 https://maps.nls.uk/os/air-photos/

National Library of Map Collections Tel: 0131 623 4660 Legal Deposit Library with large Scotland Causewayside Building [email protected] collection of modern and 33 Salisbury Place www.nls.uk/collections/maps/in antiquarian material. Particularly EDINBURGH dex.html strong in mapping of Scotland. EH9 1PH Check opening times before Useful website for all things visiting! www.nls.uk/using-the- Scottish including excellent library/opening-hours images of maps.

➢ Online catalogue for part of map collection available on their website and via Library Hub Discover https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/

National Library of Map Collection Tel: 01970 632 800 Legal Deposit Library with large Wales National Library of Wales [email protected] collection of modern and ABERYSTWYTH www.library.wales/collections/le antiquarian material. Particularly Ceredigion SY23 3BU arn-more/maps/ strong in the mapping of Wales. ➢ Online catalogue for part of map collection is available on their website https://discover.library.wales and via Library Hub Discover https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/

National Maritime Caird Archive & Library Tel: 020 8312 6516 Extensive collection of Museum National Maritime Museum [email protected] manuscript and printed Greenwich [email protected] hydrographic charts and related LONDON www.rmg.co.uk/research- materials. SE10 9NF collections/caird-library ➢ Catalogue and map and chart images are available via their Collections pages at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/

Natural History Cromwell Road Tel: 020 7942 5460 Extensive collection of geological Museum LONDON www.nhm.ac.uk/research- maps and related documents. SW7 5BD curation/library/ World-wide coverage. ➢ Online catalogue for much of collection is available on their web-site and on COPAC at http://copac.ac.uk/

Royal Foyle Reading Room Tel: 020 7591 3000 Excellent collection of modern Geographical 1 Kensington Gore [email protected] and antiquarian mapping. Society (with the LONDON www.rgs.org/about/our- Unpublished expedition reports Institute of British SW7 2AR collections/ of RGS sponsored expeditions. Geographers) Note: Entry to the Reading Room is free to education users and Society members but others are charged. ➢ Online catalogue for much of collection is available on their web-site at www.rgs.org/about/our- collections/search-our-collections/ (Records are NOT available on Library Hub Discover)

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The National Ruskin Avenue Tel: 020 8876 3444 Numerous maps accrued in Archives Kew [email protected] government departments can be RICHMOND www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/m found throughout the records in Surrey TW9 4DU aps TNA but many are not catalogued. ➢ Part of the collection can be identified via their online catalogue http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Trinity College Glucksman Map Library Tel: 00 3531 8962087 or Legal Deposit Library. Mapping Library College Street 8961544 of Ireland a speciality. DUBLIN 2 [email protected] Republic of Ireland www.tcd.ie/Library/map-library/ ➢ Online catalogue for part of map collection is available on their website and via Library Hub Discover https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/

UK Hydrographic UKHO Archive Tel: 01823 483341 / 483409 Supports the day-to-day Office Admiralty Way [email protected] operations of the UKHO and is TAUNTON https://www.gov.uk/the-ukho- also a place of deposit under the Somerset archive Public Records Act. It contains TA1 2DN hundreds of thousands of hydrographic records in varying formats and in different languages ➢ No Online catalogue but have catalogued thousands of documents which have been transferred to The National Archives; see https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help- with-your-research/research-guides/admiralty-charts-maps/

OTHER MAP COLLECTIONS IN BRITAIN

It is not possible to list here all of the many institutions and organisations that have map collections. A list of Map Collections throughout Britain and Northern Ireland can be found in:

A directory of U.K. map collections. (3rd ed.) Compiled by Joan Chibnall. Map Curators’ Group Publications no. 4. 1995. ISBN 0904482111 [CUL Classmark: S696.c.042.4]

This directory is also available online at: www.cartography.org.uk/map-collections/