Libraries and leisure

Using maps

These can provide information on the situation and shape of the building and may provide a clue to its date of erection.

a) Ordnance Survey
1-inch scale 1805 onwards
6-inch scale various editions 1879 - 1937 and 1960
25-inch scale Various editions 1879 - 1939
Town plans - 10 feet to 1 mile:
Berkhamsted 1877
Bishops Stortford 1877 - 1879
Hemel Hempstead 1878 (part only)
Hitchin surveyed 1851 and published June 1852
St Albans 1879 - 1880
Tring 1878 - 1879
Ware 1851 and 1880
Watford 1871 - 1873
b) Enclosure and tithe maps
These are available for most individual parishes in Hertfordshire and yield valuable information concerning size of site and the names of owners and occupiers at the time of the survey (c1840s).
c) Other printed and manuscript maps
These are usually or an earlier date than a)and b)and can give comparable details of the site and situation etc.
d) Printed maps covering the whole of the county
Bryant, 1820
Dury and Andrews, 1766 (inlcudes town plans of Hertford and St Albans). Both available in the reading rooms. See the map catalogues for more details.