How much has your hometown changed since the 1940s? A new collection of detailed Ordnance Survey maps added to TheGenealogist's MapExplorer™ provides a fascinating opportunity to find out.
The newly available historic mapping covers Britain during the decades following the Second World War, a period when towns, cities and rural communities experienced significant changes.
The collection includes detailed 1:1,250 scale maps for urban areas and 1:2,500 scale maps for the countryside.
These maps show individual buildings, streets, schools, businesses, field boundaries and other features, allowing researchers to examine how familiar places have developed over time.
For family historians, they can help locate the streets and neighbourhoods where recent generations of ancestors lived.
The maps are also particularly useful for understanding post-war redevelopment, including the clearance of bomb-damaged areas, construction of new housing estates, road widening and changes to town centres.
Used alongside census records, the 1939 Register and other historical sources, these maps provide valuable geographical context for family research.
The newly added mapping can be explored through MapExplorer™ on TheGenealogist, where historic maps can be compared with modern mapping to see how places have changed.
