OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 95)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Yorkshire: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 95 (Bridlington Bay, Flamborough and East Yorkshire coast).

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Old Series Map Index

 

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a coastal moorland and harbour landscape landscape, characterised by North Yorkshire coastal cliffs, harbour towns, moorland ridges and deeply incised valleys.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is North Yorkshire coastal cliffs, harbour towns, moorland ridges and deeply incised valleys archaeology. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence, coastal/marsh-edge and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Whitby/Esk Harbour and Abbey Core, Scarborough Castle/Harbour Core

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

Sheet XCV / 95 shows the east Yorkshire coast with Bridlington Bay clearly labelled and strong Yorkshire Wolds/Flamborough coastal controls.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 95 shows a mixed area of coastal chalk wolds and bay coastcoastal moorland and harbour landscape North Yorkshire coastal cliffs, harbour towns, moorland ridges and deeply incised valleys chalk wolds, coastal cliffs, bays, seaside towns and agricultural lowland . 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

Whitby/Esk Harbour and Abbey Core is interpreted as a harbour, monastic, river crossing and route convergence landscape. Scarborough Castle/Harbour Core is interpreted as a coastal promontory, harbour and defended settlement archaeology landscape. North York Moors Ridgeway Belt is interpreted as a barrows, ridgeways, enclosures and prehistoric routeways landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Scarborough - Whitby corridor is interpreted as a route/river/coastal corridor. 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.Whitby regional route corridor is interpreted as a settlement and topographic route corridor. 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

Scarborough crossing/route node is a coastal/river crossing or route node. Whitby crossing/route node is a coastal/river crossing or route node. North York Moors crossing/route node is a coastal/river crossing or route node.

Main Places