France : Sheet 62B / Ordnance Survey.

Format
Map
Language
English
Εdition
First edition
Published/​Created
[Place of publication not identified] : Ordnance Survey, 1917.
Description
  • Scale 1:40,000 (E 3°11ʹ50ʺ--E 3°38ʹ34ʺ/N 50°00ʹ15ʺ--N 49°49ʹ33ʺ).
  • 1 map : some color ; sheet 63.5 x 88.8 cm

Details

Subject(s)
Former owner
Donor
Publisher
Library of Congress genre(s)
Getty AAT genre
Notes
  • Relief shown by form lines and pictorially.
  • Shows hedges, fences, ditches, ditches with permanent water, conspicuous points, permanent railways (light gauge and double or single normal gauge), main roads, churches, wind mills, and triangulation points.
  • Also shows military grid.
  • In lower left margin: "G.S.G.S. 2743."
  • In lower right margin: "Ordnance Survey, December 1917."
  • In lower margin: "All heights in metres...Contour interval 20 metres."
  • Includes "Instructions as to the use of the squares," "Table for converting metres to feet," and text regarding grid bearings and the mean deviation of a normal compass.
  • Place names in French.
Geographic coverage
Covers part of the Aisne Department, Hauts-de-France between Beaurevoir in the north, Vénérolles in the east, Regny in the south, and Holnon in the west.
Source acquisition
Princeton copy 1: Gift; Professor A.G. Shenstone ; January 13, 1972.
Standard map series designation
  • G.S.G.S. 2743
OCLC
1478426901
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