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Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map covering parts of Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire.
Landscape and Archaeological Themes
Landscape Classification
Sheet 8 shows a chalk escarpment and wooded upland landscape, characterised by North Downs ridgeway, river gaps and Wealden hills.
Archaeological Landscape
The primary archaeological theme is North Downs ridgeway and river-gap archaeology. prehistoric hilltop visibility, Roman/medieval routeways and river crossing towns
High Visibility Locations
Box Hill, Reigate Hill, Leith Hill, Hog's Back
Terrain Archaeology
The terrain is interpreted using
hachures.
Hachures are especially useful for spotting scarp edges, river gaps, spurs and high-visibility nodes.
Main Geographic Information
Index grid confirms Sheet VIII south of Sheet I, west of Sheet VI and north of Sheet IX. Direct image evidence shows N VIII in the top-right margin and the large SURREY county label across the central sheet. Terrain shading strongly matches the North Downs and Surrey/Sussex borderlands; likely includes Guildford-Dorking-Reigate corridor and western Wealden settlements. Bounds remain approximate because graticule labels are faint.
Main Landscape Features
Sheet 8 shows a mixed area of chalk escarpment and wooded upland North Downs ridgeway, river gaps and Wealden hills . 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
- North Downs escarpment
- Surrey Hills
- Mole Valley
- Wey Valley
- wooded Weald
- hachured ridges and spurs
Archaeological Predictions
Archaeological Hotspots
North Downs Ridgeway is interpreted as a prehistoric/Roman ridge route and visibility landscape landscape. Dorking-Mole Gap is interpreted as a river gap and crossing route node landscape. Guildford-Wey Gap is interpreted as a river crossing and routeway node landscape. Box Hill / Reigate Hill Visibility Belt is interpreted as a scarp-edge high point zone landscape.
Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections
North Downs Scarp Corridor is interpreted as a long-distance ridgeway / Roman road candidate 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.Wey-Mole-Reigate Crossing Chain is interpreted as a river-gap 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
Guildford Wey Crossing is a major river crossing and gap route. Dorking/Mickleham Mole Gap is a river-gap crossing. Reigate Hill Foot Crossing Zone is a scarp-foot route/water crossing.
Historic towns shown on Sheet 8