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Saffron Walden
Essex CB10 1ES
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Maps of Uttlesford area at 1:2,500 – 1876-1897
Listed below are the large scale maps that cover various villages and other areas in Uttlesford, mainly in and around Saffron Walden; even larger scale OS maps are included on the Saffron Walden page. The Library also has a later set (1921) of 1:2,500 maps.
All the maps listed in the table below are at 1:2,500, ie one inch represents 208 feet (c69 yards), or one centimetre represents 25 metres. They are all contained in the folder labelled “Maps of the Saffron Walden area, 18th & 19th Cent – 2”, which is on the floor, to the right of the Reading Room window.
Maps
- Sundry small scale Ordnance Survey maps
- Central Saffron Walden area – 1:500 and 1:2,500
- Uttlesford area at 1:2,500 – 1876-1897
- Uttlesford area at 1:2,500 – 1921
- Modern maps listing – 1:10,000 – of 1955 to 2000
- Modern maps listing – 1:2,500 – of the 1960s to 1980s
- Modern maps listing – 1:2,500 – of the 1990s
- Modern maps listing – 1:25,000 – of 1949 to 1961
Maps of Saffron Walden area
All the maps below (except Nockold’s Wendens Ambo map) are held in the Reading Room, in a set of large map folders located on the floor at the right hand end of the windows.
| Sheet | Date | Area included |
| I.12 | 1877 | Heydon Grange (Chishill) |
| II.8 | 1877 | Stump Cross (Gt Chesterford) |
| II.12 | 1877 | Great Chesterford & Little Chesterford |
| II.14 | 1877 | Crawley End (Elmdon) 2 copies |
| III.6 | 1877 | Hadstock |
| III.7 | 1877 | Bartlow Station |
| III.11 | 1897 | Ashdon |
| III.12 | 1877 | Stevington End (Ashdon) |
| III.15 | 1877 | Church End (Ashdon) |
| VIII.1 | 1877 | Great Chishall, Chrishall |
| VIII.3 | 1877 | Littlebury Green, Strethall, Catmere End |
| VIII.8 | 1877 | Quendon, Ricklong |
| VIII.11 | 1877 | Newland End (Arkesdon) |
| VIII.12 | 1877 | Wendons Ambo |
| IX.3 | 1877 | St Aylotts, Rothend (Radwinter) |
| IX.4 | 1877 | Bendysh Hall (Radwinter) |
| IX.8 | 1877 | Radwinter |
| IX.9 | 1877 | Shortgrove |
| IX.13 | 1877 | East Newport |
| X.2 | 1877 | Blagden Fram, Hempstead Hall (Helions Bumpstead) |
| X.5 | 1877 | Hempstead |
| X.10 | 1877 | Little Sampford |
| X.14(b) | 1877 | West of Gt Sampford (half sheet) |
| XIII.1 | 1876 | Ford End |
| XIII.2 | 1876 | Ford End, Clavering |
| XIII.3 | 1897 | Clavering |
| XIII.4 | 1897 | Wicken Bonhunt, Quendon Park |
| XIII.6 | 1876 | Starling’s Green |
| XIII.7 | 1877 | South east of Clavering |
| XIII.7 | 1897 | South east of Clavering |
| XIII.8 | 1897 | Quendon |
| XIII.12 | 1877 | Rickling Green, Ugley |
| XIII.15 | 1897 | Maggots End (Manuden) |
| XIV.2 | 1877 | Debden |
| XIV.7 | 1877 | Debden Cross, Cutler’s Green |
| XIV.12 | 1897 | South of Thaxted |