This application allows all of our maps of Scotland to be searched and viewed. The application complements our Mosaic Viewer application that allows seamless mosaics to be viewed.

Main search process

Choose the map category that you would like to search from the left-hand list. These are ordered roughly by scale from less detailed to more detailed maps. Zoom in on your area of interest and click on the map to view the sheet that covers this area. The sheet that you have selected is highlighted in blue, and a brief record and image of it appears in the right-hand panel. Select this to view a zoomable image or further information about the map sheet.

All of our online maps are included in this application:

Maps of Scotland - 1560-19121014 sheets
Pont manuscript maps - ca. 1583-161438 sheets
Gordon manuscript maps - 1630s-1650s64 sheets
Blaeu maps - 165447 sheets
Moll maps - 174535 sheets
Thomson maps - 1820-183031 maps
Other county maps - 1630-192862 maps
Taylor and Skinner - 1775-661 maps
Bartholomew Survey Atlas - 191258 maps
OS Air Photo Mosaics - 1944-1950     221 air photo mosaics
OS Quarter Inch - 1921-1923     10 sheets
OS 1 inch - 1856-1891131 sheets
OS 1 inch - 1895-1900131 sheets
OS 1 inch - 1903-1912131 sheets
OS 1 inch Popular - 1921-193092 sheets
OS 1 inch Popular with National Grid - 1945-194792 sheets
OS 1 inch Seventh Series - 1952-1961190 sheets(This series covers Great Britain)
OS 1:25,000 maps - 1937-19612027 sheets(This series covers Great Britain)
OS 6 inch - 1843-18822,132 sheets
OS 6 inch - 1892-19607,486 sheets
OS 25 inch - 1855-188213,045 sheets
OS 25 inch - 1892-194917,466 sheets
OS County Series Indexes - 1854-8632 sheets
Coastal charts - 1583-185060 maps
Admiralty Charts - 1795-190479 sheets
Military Maps - 18th century44 maps
Roy Military Antiquities - 179344 maps
Bathymetrical Survey - 1897-1909223 maps of 562 lochs
Sutherland estate maps - 1772-7436 maps
Great Reform Act towns - 183271 maps
Other town plans - 1580-193173 maps
OS Town Plans - 1847-189562 towns, 1,872 sheets

Gazetteer, National Grid Reference, and Counties/Parishes for searching

The Gazetteer at the top of the map allows you to locate your area on the map using modern place names from Google, as well as by British National Grid Reference - 2,4,6,or 10 figures. Further left, drop-down boxes allow counties and parishes (based on their names and boundaries in the 1940s) to be searched. In all cases, the map will then position to the place, National Grid Reference, county or parish that has been selected.

Background map

By default, the background map shows 1920s mapping from the NLS Historic Maps API. Select the drop-down list to choose Ordnance Survey Opendata, or Google maps, satellite, hybrid and terrain views as background maps. Double-click on the map or click the zoom slider (upper left) to zoom in on the map.

Location

In the lower-right of the map, the location of your mouse position is shown as a British National Grid Reference, as British National Grid Eastings and Northings, and as longitude and latitude.

Application

This application uses Geoserver and Openlayers, and was customised by Klokan Technologies.

Please email maps@nls.uk for further assistance, or to provide general comments/feedback.