OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 63)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Leicestershire, Rutland, Warwickshire fringe, Northamptonshire fringe: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 63 (Leicestershire, Rutland and north Warwickshire fringe inferred).

Please note that the modern reference map on the split screen is intended as a guide only.

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a lowland with upland/forest ridge landscape, characterised by Leicestershire Soar valley, Charnwood uplands, Roman-road corridors and dense Midlands settlement pattern.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is Leicestershire Soar valley, Charnwood ridgeway, Roman-road and villa/estate archaeology. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence, coastal, marsh-edge and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Charnwood Forest Ridge Belt, Soar Valley Route 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

Sheet LXIII / N° LXIII is visible in the upper-right margin and the sheet number 63 is visible at lower-left. Large LEICESTERSHIRE lettering is visible across the map. Bounds are reconstructed from sheet-index geometry, adjacent Sheet LXII relationship, major settlement pattern and county lettering; graticule labels are faint.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 63 shows a mixed area of lowland with upland/forest ridge Leicestershire Soar valley, Charnwood uplands, Roman-road corridors and dense Midlands settlement pattern . 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

Charnwood Forest Ridge Belt is interpreted as a ridgeway, enclosure and quarry/resource landscape landscape. Soar Valley Route Belt is interpreted as a river crossing, Roman road and villa/estate potential landscape. Melton/Belvoir Eastern Route Belt is interpreted as a ridge/valley route and estate landscape landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Leicester-Loughborough Soar corridor is interpreted as a Roman/medieval 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.Loughborough-Melton corridor is interpreted as a east-west 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.Charnwood high route is interpreted as a ridgeway 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

Loughborough Soar crossing is a river crossing. Mountsorrel Soar crossing is a river/ridge crossing.

Main Places