Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire fringe: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 87 (Selby, Goole, Snaith and lower Ouse/Aire plain).
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This sheet represents a landscape, characterised by .
The primary archaeological theme is .
The terrain is interpreted using .
Sheet LXXXVII / 87 is visible. The map shows the lowland waterway landscape around Selby, Snaith, Goole and the lower Ouse/Aire plain, with dense drainage, canals and flat agricultural land.
Sheet 87 shows a mixed area of lowland river/canal drainage plain flat alluvial plain, canals, navigable rivers, carrs, moors and intensive drainage . 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.