This page presents the maps of Seaton Ross that are currently available and dated between 1771 and 1961. Interpretation of some of these maps may be found on other pages. CLICK on any map to enlarge.
1771 – Jeffrey’s Map of Yorkshire
The earliest map is part of Jeffrey’s Map of Yorkshire – published in 1771. Seaton Ross is on plate xiv and this is available to purchase from the North Yorkshire County Council website.
This significant map shows Seaton Ross with a different road layout – as it was prior to enclosure of Seaton Common and the construction of the Bubwith to Holme-on-Spalding-Moor turnpike road. See A village tuned around for a discussion of this.
1811 – William Watson map of the village
In time sequence, the next map is the William Watson’s 1811 map of the village – so accurate that it almost exactly superimposes on modern O/S maps. Here it is with a transcript.
1814 – John Foster plan of Common and Carr
The 1814 plan of Seaton Common and Carr is essentially the enclosure map of 1814. At this point, there was only Seaton Common and the village green left in the parish to be enclosed.
c1817-1842 – William Watson’s parish maps
William Watson drew a series of maps of the parish showing all the field boundaries and indicating land ownership. Although the keys to the maps have unfortunately not survived, the earliest and the partial maps actually have the farmers’ names marked. Unfortunately two are also undated and the date of a third (c1817) has had to be inferred from other sources. The period covered starts with the common land still only partly enclosed.
We are unfortunately unable to include most of these as we have not yet been given permission to do so by the owner and are showing the one that is not covered as an example.
1828 – William Watson’s Book of Roads
This is a linear map of the parish. The full Book of Roads can be downloaded as a 4.7 Mb pdf file. Click on the image below to view it and from that page it may be downloaded. The image to the left is the KEY to the book.
1828 & 1831 – Greenwood & Maxwell county maps
Although relatively low resolution, these county maps are informative about the road network around Seaton Ross. The left hand (Greenwood) map is available free from the National Library of Scotland.
1851 – Plan of titheable lands in Seaton Ross
This map of 1851 shows the titheable lands of Seaton Ross – i.e. who owned which land. The vast majority was owned by William Constable Maxwell Esq. of Everingham Hall.
1851-1966 – Ordnance Survey maps
All the published Ordnance Survey maps between 1851 and 1967 are available copyright free from the National Library of Scotland.
| Survey | Published | 25 inch | 6 inch | 1 inch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1851-52 | 1855 | 6 inch | ||
| 1889 | 1890 | 25 inch | ||
| rev 1893 | 1898 | 1 inch | ||
| rev 1905 | 1907 | 1 inch | ||
| rev 1908 | 1910 | 6 inch | ||
| rev 1908 | 1910 | 25 inch | ||
| 1920-21 | 1924 | 1 inch | ||
| 1940 | 1943 | 1 inch | ||
| rev 1950 | 1953 | 6 inch | ||
| rev 1950 | 1955 | 1 inch | ||
| rev 1950-66 | 1967 | 1 inch |
Here are the 1851-2 and 1908 6 inch maps of the parish:
WWII map of the Seaton Ross/Melbourne Airfield
The WWII airfield was situated in the most northern part of the parish and Halifax bombers were based there. The edge of the village can be seen to the bottom left of the map.
Food production was very important during the war and maps of the airfield were produced to show the areas that farmers could use to grow crops in between the runways. This map shows the land allocated to the Henleys (in green).
