Originally Posted by
Marco
I'm glad you liked the link, Graham. I don't know why, but the National Library of Scotland has an excellent collection of English maps, so if you want to see how your town/city/village looked x number of years ago it's a great place to look.
You can go back a long time too. I saw some maps of my area where the railways were labelled LNWR (Graham will know what that stands for), so we're talking pre-1923. The website isn't the easiest one to grapple with, but if you give it some time you will find what you want.