Scottish Heritage Cards - Stirling & Surrounding

I have enjoyed absorbing myself in maps for as long as I can remember: examining the contours of Scottish mountains, following the river flow as it snakes through the landscape and discovering historic features – natural and man-made enticing me to investigate further from finger-tip to walking boots. This interest has taken a step towards vintage maps featuring orphanages, webs of bustling railway lines and villages that were once so small in comparison to their grand expansion by 2020.

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This collection of card's map cuttings comes from a 1957 Ordnance Survey One-Inch map, Seventh Series (sheet 54) in the town of Stirling and surrounding villages and land. The detail on many of the sections shows a busy rural working life, farming land, mills and access to other towns and cities via a rail network.