These records may be viewed at Hampshire Record Office without
prior appointment. Hampshire sheets were published in the 1870s.
These maps are a good starting point. Apart from the historical
evidence they contain, 6” maps are useful as a reference tool
because the scales and orientation of earlier maps can make them
difficult to interpret. Hampshire sheets were published in the
1870s. Some were hand coloured by the Ordnance Survey with
carriageways and footways - as distinct from highway waste -
marked in yellow. The colouring is not significant as to status,
however. They include more detail; for example, areas of highway
waste - which were not normally used for passage - within a
track were left uncoloured and distinguished from the
carriageway by broken lines. Fields and roads are numbered and
relate to reference books which record the acreage and
description of each plot or, in the case of tracks, a
description which may be simply ’road’, but sometimes a ‘public
road’ or an ‘occupation road.’ The descrip