Hi, Becky Lowery (did we meet during last year’s Ken Nebenzahl Jr Lectures?), Mark Johnson, and Paige,
As I never know what happens to replies I forward, after clicking on ‘OK’, to ‘MAPS-L’, this is addressed to the three of you personally.
About 20 minutes ago I forwarded Becky’s original inquiry (only) to the British discussion list ‘Lis-maps’; naturally, it’s unlikely to be dealt with until tomorrow (Monday) onwards – if you can contain yourselves until then . . .
Are you aware of (admittedly historically-focussed) Dr Humphrey Southall (University of Portsmouth [UK]) and his ‘GBHGIS’ Project? Very much using and coding gazetteer entries of Britain.
And please note: there has never been, or is, such an organisation as “Ordinance Survey England”: ‘ordinance’ relates to legal, whereas ‘ordnance’ relates to military, matters – thus identifying the military origin of the Ordnance SurveyJ You might incidentally inform ‘TED’ . . .
Sincerely,
(Mr) Francis Herbert (former Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG; founder member, Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps [www.charlesclosesociety.org])
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From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [ <mailto:[log in to unmask]> mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Becky Lowery
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Subject: UK numeric code
Hi all,
I had a request from a patron about a numeric code used in the UK that has me baffled. See below. Any ideas?
"I have had no success -- at Ordinance Survey England or the AGS Library in
Milwaukee -- in finding out about the information shown below. THANKS !! TED
Example Place-Name Numeric Code
Within Listed County/Shire
of England, United Kingdom
1656724 Bedfordshire
1656895 Bedfordshire
1657228 Berkshire
1662367 Dorset
1665875 Hampshire
1667135 Hertfordshire
1668081 Kent
1675271 Somerset
1675714 Somerset
1675734 Somerset
1677346 Suffolk
1679186 Warwickshire
1679336 Westmoreland
What is the name of this coding system ?
Does it apply to all places in the United Kingdom ?
Is it keyed to sheet numbers of an OS series ?
Is a "gazetteer" found on-line ?
Is a "gazetteer" found in a printed source ?
Anyplace still use the system ?"
Does anyone recognize the code that is being used here. I have literally done a google search on the fist number county pair and it does show up in some old genealogical records if that suggests anything to anyone.
Thanks,
Becky Lowery
Reference Librarian
Newberry Library
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