Project Purley

The Local History Society for Purley on Thames

Catalogue of Ordnance Survey Maps including Purley

This lists the Ordnance Survey Maps which cover Purley they are arranged in scale/date order and, where possible, gives the project Purley archive reference which can either be for the complete map (N) or an image of the Purley section (M) for large scale maps only.

Scale 1:250000 (quarter inch)

1967 - sheet 17 5th series revision B (M001808, N801010)

1970 - sheet 17 revision C (N801010)

1971 - sheet 17 (M001806, N801020)

1976 - sheet 16 (M000909, M001800, M001807, N801030, N801180)

1976 - sheet 17 (N801030)

Scale 1:100000

2003 - Oxon and Berks sheet 9 (N801250)

Scale 1:63360 (One inch)

1845 - One inch (N801270)

1854 - One inch (N801280)

1885 - One inch Mid Berkshire (N801240)

1891 - one inch

1947 - new popular edition 158 (M001802, N801200)

1952 - new popular edition 159 (M001801, N801190)

1964 - seventh series 159 (M001803, M000905, N801210)

1967 - One inch 158 (M000906, N801220)

Scale 1:50000 (Landranger)

1874 - Reading and Windsor - rescaled map published 2005 by Timeline Maps based on the OS one inch maps published between 1791 and 1874 (M000904, N801050)

1898 - sheet 254 Cassini past and present (M001819, N801080)

1920 - Reading and Windsor - rescaled map based on original sheets 105, 106, 113 and 114 published by Cassini 2007 (N801100, N801090, M001818 M001811)

1973 - Reading and Windsor - first series (N801120,M001814)

1974 - Sheet 175 edition A (N801300)

1982 - Reading and Windsor sheet 175 (N801130, M000903, M001812)

Scale 1:25000 (Pathfinder)

1879 sheet XXVIII Berks and Oxon (N810310)

1974 sheet SU67 (N000069)

1980 sheet SU67/77 (M001812, N801160)

map 1172 - SU67/77

Scale 1:10560 (six inch)

1880 - map 10510 six inch first edition (N000067)

1912

extract 1 NW shows Pangbourne and Whitchurch including Marsh Farm detail

extract 2 SW shows Marsh Farm and Sulham Lane

extract 3 SE shows Home Farm Sulham, Purley Hall and west end of Beech Road

extract 4 NE scale 1:10560 shows Saltney Mead and Scraces Farm (National archives IR126/70/129 XC13656)

N810010 - SU67NE - 1960 (M000950) covers Westbury Farm to The Warren and Goring Heath to Carlisle Rd

N810030 - SU67NW - 1960 - covers Lower Basildon to Purley Hall and Goring Heath to Pangbourne Nautical College

N810041 - SU67NW - 1970 - as above but showing lands to be transferred between parishes (M000951)

Scale 1:10000

These maps are the metric version of the six inch maps. They are arranged in order of their reference in the Project Purley Archive. Some of them do not bear a date. Their coverage is indicated by west to east and then north to south objects covered.

N810020 - SU67NE - 1970 - covers Westbury Farm to The Warren and Goring Heath to Overdown Rd

N810021 - SU67NE - 1970 - as above but marked with land to be transferred between parishes

N810051 - SU67SE - 1976 - covers Little Heath to Battle Hospital and Arthur Newbery Park to Kennet and Avon canal

Scale 1:2500

These are arranged in order of their reference in the Project Purley Archive. None of them bear a date. Theu are however dateable to around 1985. Their coverage is indicated by west to east and then north to south objects covered.

N810310 - Berkshitre sheet XXVIII.12-1879 - covers Pangbourne Station to Scraces Farm andWhitchurch to Mosshall Wood

N810320 - SU6476 & SU6576 - covers Sulham Lane to Long Lane and Recreation ground to Denefield School

N810330 - SU6477 & SU6577 - covers Whitchurch School to Hardwick House and Hardwick Stud Farm to Saltney Mead

N810340 - SU6677 & SU6777 - Covers Riverview Drive to Lilley Farm and Bottom Wood to Riverview Dr

N810350 - SU6476 & SU6576 - covers Wilder Ave to Bowling Green and Westbury Farm to Recreation ground

N810351 - SU6476 & SU6576 - as above but now roundabout at Nursey Gardens

N810360 - SU6676 & SU6776 - covers Purley Lane to Mapledurham House and Mapledurham Lock to St Mary's Church

N810370 - SU6675 & SU6775 - covers Orchard Close to Tilehurst Station and Purley Park Mansion to Overdown Road

N810371 - SU6675 & SU6775 - as above but no Simons Close

N810380 - SU6674 & SU6774 - covers Old Farm Crescent to Thirlemere Ave and Clanfield Gardens to Westwood Glen

N810390 - SU6473 & SU6573 - covers Moor Copse to St Catherines Church and Sulham Wood to Little Heath School

N810400 - SU6673 & SU6773 - coversThe Roal Oak to Clan Close and The Royal Oak to The Meadway

Scale 1:1250 (twenty five inch)

These are arranged in order of their reference in the Project Purley Archive. Some of them do not bear a date. Their coverage is indicated by west to east and then north to south objects covered.

N000061 - 1899 - map 25"

N5020 11/8/2017

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