THESE PAGES ARE A BIT SLOW TO LOAD BUT PLEASE BE PATIENT I THINK THEY ARE WELL WORTH THE TROUBLE.

THE WHITE PAPER MAP

Although its poor quality we can see enough detail to be sure that the BAA map is indeed the White paper one. To see it better save it then open it in a photo-manip package and zoom on it. When I lifted the BAA outline and laid it over this however it turned out to be a very poor fit. The BAA one is the sketch, this one seems to be derived from an Ordnance Survey Map.

What I’ve done below is to lift the BAA outline off the White paper map above and paste it as a transparency over an ordinance survey map that I recently downloaded in sections from the OS site (free subject to their conditions) see credit below. There are a few areas where the fit is not perfect but I think the errors are now down to yards and I think some errors will be down to the white paper authors themselves. We are now down to the thickness of the lines and wondering which side of the new boundary do some of our roads end up on! Some lengths of boundary seem to follow the existing road so the final placement will be crucial to those who will still be living nearby

Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.