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Posted by Alan <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Alan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 26/3/2025, 17:55:12

Hi Ronnie, Margie has a favour to ask. She is doing a favour for someone and is researching the Holmes family, who lived in and around Litherland.
Margie found a map that was surveyed from 1845 to 1848 and published in 1850 (map ref Lancashire sheet XCIX). Available online from the National Library of Scotland.
Would you know please if this is the earliest dated map available for the Litherland area?

Thanks for any help Margie

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Posted by Ronnie <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Ronnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 27/3/2025, 10:48:42, in reply to "Fao: Ronnie/Others"
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Hi Alan,

The OS maps of the UK from the early 1840s are the first detailed maps, there were maps before but no where near as detailed.

I've attached some examples of our area from maps I've posted previously on the board.

Cheers,
Ronnie.

1610

1682

1839

1844

1845

Re: Fao: Ronnie/Others

Posted by PeteH2 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=PeteH2' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 29/3/2025, 9:31:18, in reply to "Re: Fao: Ronnie/Others"

I wish I could go back and see this area in the 1800s, it all looks so fabulously rural.

Cracking set of maps Ronnie.

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Posted by Norma <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Norma' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 29/3/2025, 14:52:09, in reply to "Re: Fao: Ronnie/Others"

What was the age most people died them,Hard working people ,not the upper class,My grandmother worked as a ladies maid,bet her life was easyer then,than after she married,dont know how she managed with 8 children ,

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Posted by Ronnie <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Ronnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 29/3/2025, 11:09:31, in reply to "Re: Fao: Ronnie/Others"
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Thanks, Peter

1828

Posted by Ronnie <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=Ronnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 27/3/2025, 14:55:28, in reply to "Re: Fao: Ronnie/Others"
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Re: Fao: Ronnie/Others

Posted by PeteH2 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/litherland-ford/info/user=PeteH2' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 26/3/2025, 22:39:45, in reply to "Fao: Ronnie/Others"

Hi

It may well be the first that shows clear detail. However, I would have a look on this website and maybe contact Martin Greaney, the author who is incredibly knowledgeable about local maps and a very helpful bloke.

Link: https://https://historic-liverpool.co.uk/old-maps-of-liverpool/#comment-312688

Re: Fao: Ronnie/Others

That link doesn’t seem to work.

Maybe this will.

https://historic-liverpool.co.uk/old-maps-of-liverpool/#comment-312688

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This one is 1828. Good detail if you zoom in.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/220113211

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