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Map-making technology came
to England in the 16th century, chiefly from the Netherlands. Eastern
counties of England were the first to use the new geometry and cartography
on any scale. The new techniques took a long time to spread westwards and
there are only a few estate or parish maps before the 18th century.
The Governments Ordnance
Survey board made small scale maps including Somerset in the early 19th
century, but the first large scale published OS maps date from the 1880s (on
two scales 1:10 560 or "6-inch" and 1:2500 or "25 inch"). A second edition
of these maps was published in the 1900s.
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