Exploring The History Of Scotland

Pastmap is an interactive map which tin dismiss assist you lot explore the historic buildings, archeology too landscapes of Scotland. The map has been created past times Historic Environment Scotland to assist the populace disclose to a greater extent than close Scottish history too to assist them catch the country's historic sites too buildings.

The map side-panel includes a pose out of history layers which tin dismiss survive added to the map. These include the locations of listed buildings, conservation areas, battlefield sites, scheduled monuments too gardens too designed landscapes. The side-panel likewise includes a pose out of map layers. These include vintage Ordnance Survey maps too aerial imagery of Scotland, on which you lot tin dismiss overlay the historical locations.


If you lot are interested inward vintage maps of Scotland thence you lot should likewise pay a catch to the online Map Collections sectionalisation of the National Library of Scotland. The National Library of Scotland (NLS) has digitized thousands of onetime historical Scottish maps.

Some of the NLS's digitized maps convey been used past times the University of Glasgow to exhibit the routes of Robert Burns’s tours inward the Highlands too Borders of Scotland. The Maps of Robert Burns’s Tours of the Highlands too Borders of Scotland piece of employment vintage map tiles of Scotland from the library's map collection.

For illustration the Robert Burns’s Tour of the Highlands, 25th August – 16th September 1787 map features an interactive road of business office of Robert Burns' tour overlaid on a vintage 1815 map of Scotland. In this interactive road map you lot tin dismiss click on each of the way-points displayed on the map to read what Burns had to tell close the places he visited during this business office of his tour of the Highlands.