Alvington etc, "Vison of Britain" Old Maps site (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, December 12, 2013, 18:03 (3790 days ago) @ Jefff

Oops, sorry, the link was right area but wrong map. In case (unlikely!) anyone's unsure just use the dropdown menu to select "C19th". Now zoom in and the map changes style/vintage as you zoom, the older ones being B&W, below the map it tells you which Series (aka issue) map is being displayed. This site's more user-friendly than the Old-Maps site insofar as you can easily move around areas onto adjoining maps just by dragging the mouse pointer.

From the site's homepage you can search placenames, here's a typical "homepage" for each town, in this case Alvington, it carries lots of interesting info as well as the maps.
eg
"In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Alvington like this:
ALVINGTON, a parish in the district of Chepstow and county of Gloucester; on the estuary of the Severn, and the South Wales railway, near Wollaston r. station, 2 miles SW of Lydney. Post Town, Lydney. Acres, 2,553; of which 500 are water. Real property, £2,709. Pop. 369. Houses, 79. The manor belongs to the family of Noel. The living is a p. curacy annexed to the rectory of Wollaston, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The ancient church was a cell to Llantony Abbey."
URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10320
Date accessed: 12th December 2013

Sorry for delay posting this correction, had to make an exciting trip to the local tip !