Refreshing "The Road through Harpenden"

The Road through Harpenden

This site has been running since 2001 and my attention was recently drawn to some pages which were last updated years ago relating to talks I gave to various societies, and the arrangements for me giving talks. Many of these talks contain valuable information which is hard to find and need to be properly integrated with more recent postings.

I have started restructuring the pages relating to publications and talks -and to begin I have looked through the talk I gave in 2002 and 2004 under the title "The Road Through Harpenden" which contains interesting information on early maps, turnpike roads, stage coaches and cycling - together with a number of old news stories from the Herts Advertiser. Some more links need to be made - and several other talks need similar reformatting.

An Early 19th Century Route Map through Hertfordshire

Laurie & Whittle Route Map 1806

Laurie and Whittle's LaNew Travellers Companion, 

Exhibiting a complete and correct Survey of all the Direct and principal Cross Roads in England, Wales, and Scotland as far North as Edinburgh, and Glasgow:

was published by Nathl: Coltman in 1806

Commencement of the Roads to GLASGOW and EDINBURGH as far as Stamford with Roads to Uppingham and Market Deeping
In Hertfordshire the turnpike roads passes through Barnet, Hatfield and Welwyn, with one branch to Hitchin, and the other through Stevenage to Baldock. A branch to St. Albans also shown.

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Relating Census returns to Maps - Where was Uncle's Farm?

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Little Hadham

Jean's great-grandfather Arthur Trigg, was living at Uncle's Farm, at Little Hadham, in 1891. I use this case to show how it can be possible to relate census data with old maps - particularly the large scale Ordnance Survey maps of Hertfordshire which were published around 1880 and which can be accessed on www.old-maps.co.uk.

Click here to see how to do it. 

Uncle's Farm is probably plot reference 397