Following the discussions and posts about The Mount Cottages and the layout of Chapel Street, Abergele, over the years, I had an email from Huw Waters attaching six maps of central Abergele . He wrote in Welsh:
“Oeddwn i’n gweld sôn am fapiau Stryd y Capel yn Abergele yma. Mae hawlfraint OS arnynt dwi’n meddwl, felly dwi’n meddwl bod hi’n ddoeth cydnabod hynny. Dwi’n gallu cael mynediad i hen fapiau fel rhan o wasanaeth llyfrgell Prifysgol Bangor, ac felly gan ei fod mewn cyd-destun trafod hanes, tydw i ddim yn gweld dim o’i le.”
Huw says he’d seen the discussion here and found six maps via Bangor University’s library service. I think as long as I credit the OS, I’m OK to share these with you here.
Huw and I thought it would be fun to link the six maps into an animation to show the development in the 142 years since the first map shown. The source maps are below, which you can click on to enlarge.
Diolch yn fawr Huw.
Nice animation Gareth.
By the way, some really useful online maps of the area, including the 1913 map above, are available here: http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html
I was revisiting some older posts on here & saw Andrew’s comments above. Another useful site I have used for maps is this one:
http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-england-and-wales/ which has a superb collection from the 1800’s to 1952.
Nigel.