There are a variety of research sources to help understand the geography, geology and settlements of the parish.
At the Archive we have a selection of Ordinance Survey maps, as well as printed copies of the old maps. (we need more - can you check the bottom of the page to see if you have any you could donate please?)
On the computer we have access to the weblinks, and many of the pages saved as pdfs.
It would be wonderful to get more printed but that costs money.
this link goes to a Google map for Ardchattan parish that has information added all the time : .. is there anyone who can teach us about Google Earth layers so we could create a more versatile and powerful map with date layers, and then populate with lots more information?
The list of maps on the NLS site and their links are here below in reverse chronological order
NLS maps direct to Benderloch https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/marker/#zoom=15&lat=56.4935&lon=-5.3920&marker=56.4927,-5.3691&from=1580&to=1970
Scotlands landuse map
https://map.hlamap.org.uk/#zoom=6&lat=739713.46142&lon=189560.30341&layers=BTFFFTTTTT
Viking Map of Scotland https://www.historyscotland.com/articles/scottish-maps-and-resources/map-of-viking-scotland-800-1014
Old Maps of Scotland : The interactive Georeferenced Maps - Spy viewer comparing the modern and ancient maps are lovely https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/spy/#zoom=16&lat=56.5034&lon=-5.4150&layers=10&b=1&r=30
Scotlandsplaces is the resource for the Place names research taken in the latter half of the 1800s to inform the first Ordnance Survey maps
https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/argyll-os-name-books-1868-1878/argyll-volume-01/1
https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/argyll-os-name-books-1868-1878/argyll-volume-52/2
(there is a farm steading Ardchattan in Aberdeenshire .. https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/aberdeenshire-os-name-books-1865-1871/aberdeenshire-volume-81/208)
National library of Scotland maps of Ardchattan, you can explore the map makers take on the area through the centuries. OS 1871 is the first really accurate map. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=12&lat=56.5081&lon=-5.3525&layers=99&b=1&point=56.4502,-5.1338
Modern Maps
Pastmap https://pastmap.org.uk/map
Canmore https://canmore.org.uk/site/search/result?SITECOUNTRY=0&view=map
Forestry Scotland for Barcaldine forest
https://scotland.forestry.gov.uk/managing/plans-and-strategies/land-management-plans/consultations/1613-barcaldine
https://scotland.forestry.gov.uk/images/corporate/design-plans/west-argyll/barcaldine/barcaldine-heritage-map.pdf
WOSAS map https://south-ayrshire.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=8adfda758cb24d889ffa632eb51f4646
Geograph starting at Benderloch
National Library of Scotland maps site
Forestry commission - great details maps
CAIRT - The newsletter of the Scottish Maps Forum, 'Cairt', is issued twice a year. Issues are available as PDF files.
Curious Traveller map of Pennant and Boswells travels compare their Tours in Scotland, 1769 and 1772 with modern maps side by side
British Spy Map revealed
Crofting registers
https://www.greenmap.org/maps-projects/archive
NLS recently added
Mills - https://maps.nls.uk/projects/mills/
- Sites of Wrecks on our shores
- https://www.openstreetmap.org/about open source maps
- mapping for one places studies forum .. lots of resources https://www.mapping4ops.org/
- lidar digital terrain (not yet covered) - http://www.geostore.com/environment-agency/survey.html#/survey
2016 - new transcription project to add the names, features and locations on to OS 1900 maps of the UK - http://www.gb1900.org/#/ : Historians and linguists need your help. By contributing to this project you’ll be helping to compile the most detailed list of historic places in Britain.
- Open Drone Map - https://www.opendronemap.org/
1941 War office maps have good detail of the line in our area
3 maps north to south -
- https://maps.nls.uk/view/189661675 Creran
- https://maps.nls.uk/view/189661672 Benderloch
- https://maps.nls.uk/view/189661654 Connel
- https://maps.nls.uk/view/189661657 Ardachy to Bonawe
- https://maps.nls.uk/view/189661951 Glen Etive
1930s Land Use map Loch Etive and Glen Coe - Land Utilisation Survey, Scotland, 1931-1935
1897 surveyed OS
1871 surveyed -OS six inch 6 inch OS Survey date: 1870 Publication date: 1874-75
Glen Ure
Balure, Eriska - Dallacholish, Loch Creran
Shenavallie
Connel and Ardchattan
Bonawe
Leiter and Ben Cruachan - recorded in Ardchattan in 1861 census
1825 : [https://maps.nls.uk/view/216442659
Johnston's map of the county of Argyle with the railways.] has a great deal of detail and identifies each settlement, many of which changed names by the 1871 OS scheduling.
1801 Langlands map drawn up for the Duke of Argyll
1745 Dorret, James, fl. 1744-1761, An accurate map of Scotland drawn from all the particular surveys
... Published: 1761
1747 - 1751 Roy Military Map
The Roy map is the first surveyed map of Scotland, and holds a vast amount of detail that had never been captured by a single map before : however there are omissions. This may be due to the accuracy or otherwise of the resources they used to fill in the details- "Only selected landscape features, such as roads, rivers and lochs, were instrumentally surveyed this way. The remaining landscape features - towns and settlements, enclosures and woodland, as well as relief - were sketched in by eye or copied from existing maps."1. 'Without doubt, Roy's map is one of the most intriguing and at the same time infuriating documents available to the researcher into Scotland's past landscapes,', according to Whittington and Gibson (The Military Survey of Scotland 1747-1755: A Critique, 1986, p.61).
1745 Culloden map by the Jacobean side
1734 Cowley Duke of Argylls Estate mentions Glenkinglas Iron Furnace
1654 blaeu-map Blaeu map And link to Merklands valuations of locations in Ardchattan that uses Blaeu and Pont places
Key to the symbols used in Ponts maps - https://maps.nls.uk/pont/symbols.html
online resources
https://scottishforestry.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0d6125cfe892439ab0e5d0b74d9acc18 The Forestry Commission map - really good
Google Maps
Ordance Survey maps
| Loch Linnhe, Southern Part 1863 - Admiralty Charts of Scotland, 1795-1904
Lochs Etive and Creran 1861 Admiralty Charts of Scotland, 1795-1904
pathfinder - great maps for getting around but we do need a lot to cover the parish
We are still looking for extra copies of these for workshops especially the ones of the peripheral areas.
It takes all these to cover our area, and those adjacent that frequently need to refer to.
NM86/96 Ardgour (need a copy)
NN06/16 Ballachullish (need a copy)
NN26/36 .. (need a copy)
NM 85/95 Duror : (need a copy)
NN 05 / 15 Glencoe (Top of Creran and Dalness : copies in archive
NN 25/35 (308) Rannoch (top of Glenetive) : copy in archive
NM 84/94 Benderloch : copies in archive
NN 04 / 14 Creran head Etive : copy in archive
NN 24/34 : Glenorchy Tulla : (need a copy)
NM 83/93 Ledaig N Connel : copies in archive
NN 03/13 Glenkinglass Loch Etive : (need a copy)
NN 23/33 Bridge of Orchy : (need a copy)
NM 82/92 Connel, Oban : (need a copy)
NN 02/12 North Loch Awe : (need a copy)
NN22/32 . . (need a copy)
