OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 29)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Cornwall, Devon: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 29 (Bude Bay / north Cornwall 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 bay landscape, characterised by Bude Bay, North Cornwall coastal strip, Atlantic cliffs and sparse routeway settlement.

Archaeological Landscape

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

High Visibility Locations

Bude Bay Coastal Zone

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 29 shows a mixed area of coastal cliff and bay Bude Bay, North Cornwall coastal strip, Atlantic cliffs and sparse routeway settlement . 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

Bude Bay Coastal Zone is interpreted as a river-mouth/coastal settlement and landing landscape landscape. Tintagel/Boscastle Promontory Belt is interpreted as a cliff-top enclosure and medieval coastal landscape landscape. North Cornwall Coastal High Route is interpreted as a coastal trackway and beacon route landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

North Cornwall 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.

Historic Gateways and Crossing Places

Bude Bay access/crossing is a coastal river-mouth access.

Main Places