Map of a Nation (88 page)

Sage, Mrs,
1

St Ann’s Hill, Chertsey,
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,
2

St George’s Channel,
1

St James’s Chronicle
,
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,
2
,
3

St Paul’s Cathedral,
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,
2
,
3

Salisbury, Lord,
1

Salisbury Plain,
1

Sampson, James,
1

Sinai Peninsula, maps and surveys of,
1
,
2

Sandby, Paul,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
;

Party of Six Surveyors, Highlands in Distance,
1
;

View Near Loch Rannoch
,
1

satnav systems,
1
,
2

Satterthwaite, James,
1

Saxton, Christopher,
1
,
2

Scafell,
1

scales,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
6

Scales Dispute,
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,
2

Scar House Reservoir,
1

Schiehallion,
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,
2
,
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,
4

Scilly Isles,
1

Scotland, Colby’s experience of mapping,
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;

Lowland gentry and aristocracy,
1
;
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;

Highlanders,
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,
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,
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,
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;

landscape,
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,
2
;

language,
1
;

midges,
1
;

outlaws,
1
;

place-names,
1
;

poor state of maps of Highlands before and during Jacobite rebellion,
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,
2
;

surveyors’ experiences of Lowlands,
1
;

see also
annexed estates;

Highland reform; Military Survey of Scotland; specific locations are listed by place-name

Scott, Frederick,
1

Scott, Walter,
1
,
2
;

Old Mortality
,
1

Scurry, James,
1

secondary triangulation
see
triangulation

Sedgwick, Adam,
1

Seven Years War,
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,
2
,
3

Severndroog Castle,
1
,
2
,
3

Sgurr Dearg,
1

Shelburne,
1
nd Earl of,
2

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
1

Shetland Islands meridian arc extension,
1

Shooter’s Hill,
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,
2
,
3

Short, James,
1
,
2

Shrapnel, Henry,
1
,
2

Simcoe, General John Graves,
1
,
2

Sinai Peninsula, Ordnance Survey maps and surveys of,
1
,
2

Skiddaw,
1

Skinner, William,
1

Skye, Isle of,
1

Slieve Donard,
1
,
2
,
3

Slieve Snaght,
1

Smeaton, John,
1

Smith, Adam,
1

Smith, Charlotte,
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,
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,
3
;

The Young Philosopher
,
1

Smollett, Tobias,
1

Smyth, James Carmichael,
1

Snowdon, Mount,
1

Snowdonia, Robert Dawson’s map of,
1

Society for Constitutional Information,
1

Society for the Commemoration of the Revolution in Great Britain,
1

Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (later Royal Society of Arts),
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,
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,
3
,
4

Society of Antiquaries,
1
,
2

Soldi, Andrea,
1

Somerset, Ordnance Survey maps and surveys of,
1

South Sea Bubble,
1

Southampton,
1

Spaniard’s Inn, Hampstead,
1

Speed, John,
1
;

Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine
,
1

Spilsbury, John,
1

Spring Rice, Thomas,
1
,
2

stagecoaches,
1

Stamp Office,
1

Stanford, Edward,
1

Stanford’s (map retailer),
1
,
2

Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn,
1

Statute of Rhuddlan (1284),
1

Steel, James,
1

Sterne, Laurence,
1

Stevenson, Robert Louis,
1

Stewart, Dugald,
1
;

Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind
,
1

Stonehenge,
1
,
2

strip maps
see
traverse surveying

Stuart, Charles Edward (‘Young Pretender’),
1
,
2

sublimity, notion of,
1

Suez Canal,
1

Suffolk, Ordnance Survey maps and surveys of,
1

Sun
,
1

Surrey, Ordnance Survey maps and surveys of,
1

surveying, xxvi,
1
;

see also
mapping; planetabling; triangulation

surveyors
see
map-makers

surveyors’ wheels
see
waywisers, perambulators

surveys
see
maps, Ordnance Survey, Military Survey of  Scotland

Survey Act (1841),
1

Sussex, maps and surveys of,
1
,
2
,
3

Sussex Weekly Advertiser
,
1

Swift, Edward,
1

symbols, used in early Ordnance Survey maps,
1
,
2

telescopes, as used in map-making,
1
;

see also
theodolites

Templemore,
1
,
2

terrestrial refraction,
1

Test, William,
1

Thames, River,
1

Thelwall, John,
1

theodolites,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
;

Jesse Ramsden’s ‘Great Theodolite’,
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,
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,
3
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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;

Interior Survey’s eighteen-inch theodolite,
1

Thomas, Alfred,
1

Thomson, James,
1
;

Liberty
,
1

Thomson, Thomas,
1
;

Annals of Philosophy
,
1

Tickell, Thomas,
1
;

An Epistle
,
1

The Times
,
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,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7

Tintern Abbey,
1
,
2

Tiptree Heath,
1

Tipu Sultan,
1

Tithe Commission,
1

Tithe Communication Act (1836),
1

Topographical Branch (Ordnance Survey of Ireland),
1
,
2
,
3

topographical surveying, general
see
interior surveying

Topographical Survey, division of Ordnance Survey
see
Interior Survey

topography,
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,
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,
3
,
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,
5
,
6
;

see also
landscape; relief

toponymy,
1
,
2
,
3

Torbay House, Paignton,
1

tourism,
1
,
2

Tower of London: fire at (1841),
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;

map-making at,
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,
2
,
3
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
9
;

s
ee also
Artillery, Royal Regiment of; Board of Ordnance; Engineers, Corps of

townlands (Ireland),
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,
2

towns, mapping of,
1

traverse surveying,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

Trellech Beacon,
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,
2
,
3
,
4

Trembley, Abraham,
1

triangulation,
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,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
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,
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,
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,
10
,
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,
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;

benefits over positional astronomy,
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,
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,
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;

Ordnance Survey’s primary triangulation,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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;

Ordnance Survey’s secondary triangulation,
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,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
;

importance of in Enlightenment,
1
,
2
;

and relation to perspective,
1
;

see also
Paris–Greenwich triangulation

triangulation stations,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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trig points at specific locations are listed by place-name

Trigonometrical Survey, division of Ordnance Survey,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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trigonometrical surveying, general
see
triangulation

trigonometry,
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,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
;

for trigonometry used in triangulation
see

triangulation

trig points
see
triangulation stations

Tucker, James Walker,
1
;

Hiking
,
1

Tummel, River,
1

Tummock,
1

turnpikes,
1
,
2

Twiss, Brigadier-General,
1