Throughout history the control of land has been the basis of power. Cadastral maps, records of property ownership, played an important role in the rise of modern Europe as tools for the consolidation and extension of land-based national power. The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State, illustrated with 126 maps, traces the development and application of rural property mapping in Europe from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. Beginning with a review of the roots of cadastral mapping in the Roman Empire, the authors concentrate on the use of cadastral maps in the Netherlands, France, England, the Nordic countries, the German lands, the territories of the Austrian Habsburgs, and the European colonies. During the sixteenth century government institutions began to use maps to secure economic and political bases; by the nineteenth century these maps had become tools for aggressive governmental control of land as tax bases, natural resources, and national territories. This work demonstrates how the seemingly neutral science of cartography became a political instrument for national interests. The manuscript of Cadastral Maps in the Service of the State was awarded the Kenneth Nebenzahl Prize in 1991.

The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A History of Property Mapping

Business & Money

Kain, Roger J. P.

Baigent, Elizabeth

Real Estate

University of Chicago Press

The Tithe Surveys of England and Wales (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, Series Number 6)

The rural landscape of England and Wales in the mid-nineteenth century is minutely depicted in the large-scale plans and schedules drawn for the Tithe Commissioners. Among other features shown on the maps are field boundaries and rights of way, whilst the accompanying schedules record the names of owners and occupiers, field names, land use and area. The amount of detailed information they provide, together with their uniformity, place the surveys as the most complete record of the agrarian landscape at any period. This book describes the nature of tithe payments, the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 and the survey of over 11,000 parishes. The uses made of the surveys for reconstructing early field systems, for tracing land use and understanding farming practices, are systematically considered, The abstraction, computer processing and mapping of vast quantities of data are discussed.

Prince, Hugh C.

Economics

Cambridge University Press

The tithe surveys of the early Victorian Age, after the great Domesday Book of the eleventh century, represent the most detailed and important national inventory to be taken before our own times. This 1986 book reconstructs elements of mid-nineteenth-century rural landscapes and farming systems by analysing the wealth of quantitative data which these tithe surveys contain, communicated cartographically by a set of 582 computer-generated maps, and statistically by a series of tables. The book also reveals the richness and variety of written evidence which the 14,829 parish tithe files (P.R.O. Class IR 18) contain, by means of analytical place and subject indexes for each English and Welsh county (some 200,000 entries in all) and by essays in which themes commonly encountered in the tithe file papers of each county are described. These sections of the book will be an essential tool for historians and historical geographers.

An Atlas and Index of the Tithe Files of Mid-Nineteenth-Century England and Wales

History

Europe

Offering a comprehensive study of the enclosure mapping of England and Wales, the authors assess the processes of land enclosure and the role of maps (the mapping of each county and the cartographic characteristics of all the maps). Accompanied by an electronic catalog of all extant parliamentary and non-parliamentary enclosure maps of England and Wales, this book will be an essential research tool for economic, social and local historians as well as geographers, lawyers and planners.

The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales 1595–1918: A Cartographic Analysis and Electronic Catalogue

CHAPMAN, John

Oliver, Richard R.

The tithe maps of mid-nineteenth-century England and Wales are much used by historians, geographers, lawyers, planners and others who need accurate information about land and its ownership and use in the past. This book is a detailed catalog and analysis of these maps, offering an invaluable research tool for users and contributing much new information about this internationally important government survey.

The Tithe Maps of England and Wales: A Cartographic Analysis and County-by-County Catalogue

The rural landscape of England and Wales in the mid-nineteenth century is minutely depicted in the large-scale plans and schedules drawn for the Tithe Commissioners. Among other features shown on the maps are field boundaries and rights of way, whilst the accompanying schedules record the names of owners and occupiers, field names, land use and area. The amount of detailed information they provide, together with their uniformity, place the surveys as the most complete record of the agrarian landscape at any period. This book describes the nature of tithe payments, the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 and the survey of over 11,000 parishes. The uses made of the surveys for reconstructing early field systems, for tracing land use and understanding farming practices, are systematically considered, The abstraction, computer processing and mapping of vast quantities of data are discussed.

The tithe surveys of the early Victorian Age, after the great Domesday Book of the eleventh century, represent the most detailed and important national inventory to be taken before our own times. This 1986 book reconstructs elements of mid-nineteenth-century rural landscapes and farming systems by analysing the wealth of quantitative data which these tithe surveys contain, communicated cartographically by a set of 582 computer-generated maps, and statistically by a series of tables. The book also reveals the richness and variety of written evidence which the 14,829 parish tithe files (P.R.O. Class IR 18) contain, by means of analytical place and subject indexes for each English and Welsh county (some 200,000 entries in all) and by essays in which themes commonly encountered in the tithe file papers of each county are described. These sections of the book will be an essential tool for historians and historical geographers.

The tithe maps of mid-nineteenth-century England and Wales are much used by historians, geographers, lawyers, planners and others who need accurate information about land and its ownership and use in the past. This book is a detailed catalog and analysis of these maps, offering an invaluable research tool for users and contributing much new information about this internationally important government survey.

Offering a comprehensive study of the enclosure mapping of England and Wales, the authors assess the processes of land enclosure and the role of maps (the mapping of each county and the cartographic characteristics of all the maps). Accompanied by an electronic catalog of all extant parliamentary and non-parliamentary enclosure maps of England and Wales, this book will be an essential research tool for economic, social and local historians as well as geographers, lawyers and planners.

Towns are complex and sophisticated creations. Mapping towns stretched cartographers’ ingenuity to new heights of both artistic beauty and scientific exactitude as they strove to represent and communicate the physical patterns of streets, buildings, and spaces; built structures and economic realities; the lives of those who live and work there; and the unseen realities of landownership, administration, religion, and politics. Lavishly illustrated with over one hundred full-color maps from the British Library’s own collection, RJP Kain and Richard Oliver’s in-depth, accessible history tells the story of the mapping of urban Britain from the middle ages until today. These maps served a variety of purposes, from guiding travelers, assisting with administration and government, raising taxes, planning the built environment, organizing its defense, and much more. Some of the maps in this book are well known, others have languished in obscurity. Taken together, they tell a compelling history of urban mapmakers and the cities they sought to portray.

British Town Maps: A History

British Library

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The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A History of Property Mapping

The Tithe Surveys of England and Wales (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, Series Number 6)

An Atlas and Index of the Tithe Files of Mid-Nineteenth-Century England and Wales

The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales 1595–1918: A Cartographic Analysis and Electronic Catalogue

The Tithe Maps of England and Wales: A Cartographic Analysis and County-by-County Catalogue

The Tithe Surveys of England and Wales (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, Series Number 6)

An Atlas and Index of the Tithe Files of Mid-Nineteenth-Century England and Wales

The Tithe Maps of England and Wales: A Cartographic Analysis and County-by-County Catalogue

The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales 1595–1918: A Cartographic Analysis and Electronic Catalogue

British Town Maps: A History