MC1/3/6

Complete set of 6 inch quarter sheets used as the basis for the Land Utilisation Survey of Britain undertaken in 1931 by voluntary organisation involving local schools and societies.

1931

From: 1931 To: 1931

A key sheet in the box identifies the maps covering the county which have been numbered sequentially beginning in the north west and moving east and south to the south east corner of the county. Each of the 6” maps used as the base map for the survey are coloured up to indicate the relative use of land at the time. The land use is categorised as forests and woodland (sub-indicated as high forest, coppice, scrub and forest cut down and not replanted); meadow land and permanent grass, arable or tilled land including rotation grass and fallow; heathland, moorland, commons and rough hill pasture; gardens, allotments, orchards, nurseries etc.; wasteland unfit for cultivation, buildings, yards, mines etc,; and ponds, lakes reservoirs, ditches, dykes, streams, and anything containing water. A Guide plan for reference records which editions - either second or selective revision - have been used for the survey.

STORED IN THE SEARCHROOM. Ask staff for advice.

Papers relating to the survey are filed in L37 at MC1/3/3.

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maps, BEDFORDSHIRE, Ordnance Survey, land utilisation