15-10-2020, 07:27 PM
Many years ago I got a copy of the David & Charles facsimile edition of the OS map c1890 for NW London. Some features, such as railway lines, are largely unchanged between then and now but the North Circular Road was many years in the future.
To the west of London, on low lying ground near Hounslow Heath there's a hamlet. Its name is Heath Row. Two separate words. Not hard to guess what's there now.
Hounslow Heath is important in the history of OS because that's where the original baseline was tediously measured using rods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_...at_Britain
To the west of London, on low lying ground near Hounslow Heath there's a hamlet. Its name is Heath Row. Two separate words. Not hard to guess what's there now.
Hounslow Heath is important in the history of OS because that's where the original baseline was tediously measured using rods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_...at_Britain
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