OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 23)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Devon: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 23 (Start Bay / South Devon coast inferred).

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Old Series Map Index

 

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a coastal cliff and headland landscape, characterised by Atlantic coast, Hartland/Bude cliffs, coastal headlands and sparse routeway settlements.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is North Cornwall/Hartland coastal promontory, cliff-top route and maritime landscape. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Hartland/Bude Coastal Promontory 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 23 shows a mixed area of coastal cliff and headland Atlantic coast, Hartland/Bude cliffs, coastal headlands and sparse routeway settlements . 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

Hartland/Bude Coastal Promontory Belt is interpreted as a cliff-top enclosure and maritime lookout landscape landscape. Bude/Stratton Route Node is interpreted as a coastal river-mouth and inland route focus landscape. Atlantic Cliff Route Zone is interpreted as a coastal trackway and beacon landscape landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Hartland-Bude coastal route is interpreted as a coastal high-route candidate. 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.Bude inland route candidate is interpreted as a coastal-to-inland 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

Bude/Stratton crossing zone is a coastal river-mouth crossing.

Main Places