OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 26)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Devon: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 26 (Bideford Bay / North Devon inferred).

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a rolling upland and bay fringe landscape, characterised by Bideford Bay, Torridge/Taw valleys, hachured inland ridges and road convergence.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is North/central Devon river-valley, bay-fringe and upland routeway archaeological landscape. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Torridge Valley Crossing Belt

Terrain Archaeology

The terrain is interpreted using hachures. Relief is represented by hachures, allowing inference of ridgeways, high points, spur ends, valley approaches and likely route/crossing logic.

Main Geographic Information

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 26 shows a mixed area of rolling upland and bay fringe Bideford Bay, Torridge/Taw valleys, hachured inland ridges and road convergence . The map is useful for studying early 19th Century historic settlement patterns, Roman road alignments, early archaeological site indentification, how roads, old tracks, lanes and paths, villages, waterways and field systems related to the wider nineteenth-century landscape.

Main Geographic Features

Archaeological Predictions

Archaeological Hotspots

Torridge Valley Crossing Belt is interpreted as a river crossing and settlement corridor landscape. Central Devon Ridgeway Zone is interpreted as a upland route and enclosure landscape landscape. Bideford Bay Coastal Fringe is interpreted as a coastal route and landing landscape landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Torridge valley route corridor is interpreted as a river-valley route. Historic crossing points where roads, trackways or routeways converge on significant water features are widely recognised as archaeological hotspots. Crossing points often acted as gateways within the historic landscape. Because movement was channelled through these locations, archaeological evidence may occur both at the crossing itself and along the routes leading towards it, forming broader zones of archaeological potential rather than isolated sites.Crediton-Tiverton inland route is interpreted as a inland road convergence route. Historic crossing points where roads, trackways or routeways converge on significant water features are widely recognised as archaeological hotspots. Crossing points often acted as gateways within the historic landscape. Because movement was channelled through these locations, archaeological evidence may occur both at the crossing itself and along the routes leading towards it, forming broader zones of archaeological potential rather than isolated sites.

Historic Gateways and Crossing Places

Torridge river crossing is a river crossing. Bideford Bay coastal access is a coastal landing/access.

Main Places