Flat Vs Round...allegedly
Curious maps.
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NeilMorepies
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Just an inaccurate projection for measuring distances like that.
Just look at the size of the UK for instance. It’s about as tall as the USA.
I can find no record of 'Horselet' ( in between Hale and Prescot.)
It is as you see on a minor road
Is it / was it something to do with the old blacksmiths on Cronton Rd?
Then theres Roebuck.???
Places do get 'absorbed' but in 1837 this is out in the sticks. The Victorian industrial expansion has yet to happen.
There's usually a vague referance knocking about somewhere in a street name.
It is as you see on a minor road
Is it / was it something to do with the old blacksmiths on Cronton Rd?
Then theres Roebuck.???
Places do get 'absorbed' but in 1837 this is out in the sticks. The Victorian industrial expansion has yet to happen.
There's usually a vague referance knocking about somewhere in a street name.
NeilMorepies
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Hunts Cross perhaps? Geographically, it looks about right and horse and hunt.
NeilMorepies
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Correlation doesn't mean confirmation.
Mercator projection which stretches the distance the further North or South you look.
Could it be Oglet? Wikipedia (I know) also has a reference to it as Hogolete.
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So, I post my weird maps on a different thread and no one says there’s a weird map thread?!
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NeilMorepies
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Old roads / lanes are there because people, even the few(er) that were there in the 1830s use them and as time goes on there were more people to use that small west to east route.
The first rule with maps and drawings is 'do not scale'
Which means just because distance A 'looks' twice as big as distance B on the map drawing you can't assume that it is twice the size - until you physically measure it, aka, walk it.
That not withstanding
I know maps back then were not as accurate, but accuracy is relative.
Even a map drawn in sand with a stick is not going to confuse Prescot, Tarbock / Cronton, Hunts Cross and Oglet, which is, as the crow flies / straight line distance of 9 or 10 miles...back then, walking, nobody is going to confuse 1mile from Oglet to Hunts Cross with 7 miles from Oglet to the Tarbock / Cronton Rd.
Which is where I think our mysterious Horselet was.
The key point is where tf did it go!?
Places (mostly) leave echoes, in the 1840s Farmer Shaw sold a part of his field, the farm is long gone but Shaw St remains.
Nobody knows where the Knotty Ash tree actually was, or the Dovecot, or the Rose in Mossley Hill but echoes still remain.
We'll never know.