Posted by Jock on April 10, 2007 at 00:40:41 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Right to Roam off the AR Topic? posted by Mike Field on April 09, 2007 at 22:54:43:
Mike, get someone who has the 1930's Ordnance Survey 1 inch series maps to scan the relevant bits for you. Ideally for your SW map you should have worked (as AR had Mr Walker do) from the 1930's Admiralty Charts.
Some notes for your Broads map:
The "Ranworth" reference on AR's CC map is to the village rather than to the Broad. The reference in the text mirrors local usage, Malthouse Broad is sometimes colloquially referred to as "Ranworth Broad".
Ransome refers to the D's passing through Stalham Station in an early proof reader's copy of CC (ref TarBoard archives). The proof reader corrected "Stalham" to "Salhouse". This suggests that AR may have used the M&GNR to travel from North Walsham to Potter Heigham where there was a halt conveniently close to the Yacht Haven.
The fixed bridge at St Olaves on the New Cut was a lifting bridge in AR's day.
The thin line to the north of Horsey Mere on AR's map was a channel (another "New Cut") navigable for trading wherries in AR's day. (I sailed up it in the 1990's in a hire yacht as far as the first road bridge.)
Finally this old map might help you a little with the railways of Yarmouth. But note that although it shows the quay lines in great detail it is based on a survey carried out before the construction of Breydon Railway Bridge,