Maps: British atlases & collections of maps

Access and view over 91,000 maps as high-resolution, colour, zoomable images. The maps date between 1560 and 1961 and relate primarily to Scotland. Maps of areas beyond Scotland, including maps of England and Great Britain, Ireland, and Belgium are also available.

Public Records Office of Northern Ireland. Search and browse a range of historical Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) maps and find information on sites, buildings and landmarks of historical interest.

Information on 4,147 archaeological sites considered to be hillforts or possible hillforts spread across England, the Isle of Man, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Map-based history website developed by the Institute of Historical Research. A collection of digitised historic maps, photos and crowd-sources histories provided by the public and key partners across London.

Charles Booth's London enables you to search the catalogue of over 450 original notebooks from the Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903), view 41 digitised notebooks and explore the London poverty maps. The site is hosted by the London School of Economics, which holds the original archive. Print version is available at OVERSIZE--MF 309.1421-CHA in the Library.

Collection of historic maps, photographs, building plans and other resources, showing Coventry from Medieval times to 2021. Browse the map or explore by theme.

Displays archaeology that has been identified, mapped and recorded using aerial photographs and other aerial sources across England.

Information about Norfolk maps and scanned map images. Links for the Historic Map Explorer and the Map Image Viewer. Includes enclosure and tithe maps.

Simple map viewer aimed at the general public. Includes borehole scans, 3D models and earthquake timelines. There are two versions, the classic version and the 3D viewer.

Professional map viewer. There is a separate viewer for offshore geology. Datasets are also available via Web Mapping Services (WMS)

"This resource provides high resolution viewing images of almost all small and medium scale maps produced by the British Geological Survey since mapping started in 1832. It includes the key 1:63 360/1:50 000 maps of England and Wales and of Scotland." View only, digital facsimiles of map sheets.

An interactive database of digitised maps by William Smith. These include English county maps, geological sections, and versions of the map of England and Wales produced from 1815 onwards. It also contains information on William Smith, his maps, and the history of geological mapping.

Information about land, air and water quality, water resources, waste and conservation. View Flood risk maps for England (there is a link to maps of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).

Hosted by the National Biodiversity Network. "Allows users to interrogate species records, habitat, climate and soil information, geographical boundaries and to use extremely powerful mapping tools through a single portal. It is also simple to interrogate your own biological records and habitat information, either in isolation or combined with additional information from the online database, as well as downloading and exporting maps and reports or summaries for your own use."

MAGIC provides authoritative geographic information about the natural environment from across the UK government. The information covers rural, urban, coastal and marine environments across Great Britain. It is presented in an interactive map which can be explored using various mapping tools that are included. Natural England manages the service on behalf of DEFRA and other bodies.

This is a product of the strategic noise mapping exercise undertaken by Defra in 2012. Includes Noise Action Planning Important Areas (IAs) for roads and railways.

Maps show estimated levels of road traffic, railway and industrial noise according to the strategic noise mapping within agglomerations and along major transport routes.

Produced as a response to the EU Environmental Noise Directive (END). This directive deals with noise from road, rail and air traffic, and from industry. It focuses on the impact of such noise on individuals.

The Soilscapes Viewer is a free online soil reporting tool which produces summary soils information for a specific location (England and Wales). Available from the LandIS Soil Portal. For more detailed soil information use the Soils Site Reporter (link on the same page)

Provides data and information on Scotland’s soils. You can look at a range of maps and download the data associated with these maps.

Developed by the Brititish Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) as a wide-ranging reference source for information on the coasts and seas around the UK. It contains over 1600 thematic charts. Available as a compressed zip file.

An online distribution map shows the locations of marine and terrestrial species sightings in the Orkney Islands.