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The Mapping of Monmouthshire a note A. G. Mein For those interested in maps of the County or parts of it, either as collectors or for their help in historical research, the last 18 months has seen the publication of three valuable aids. The first, "The Mapping of Monmouthshire" by D. P. M. Michael was the subject of review in this Journal recently (No. 59, pp. 40-42) and need not detain us, apart from going out and buying one if we have not already done so. The second has not been mentioned in these pages previously but again it is something which should be acquired by anyone interested in the utility of the product rather than in its beauty. I refer to the third production of the South Wales Record Society which is an excellent photographic reproduction of the county map produced in 1830, to a scale of one inch to the mile, by Christopher and John Greenwood. The original, now on deposit in the Gwent Record Office, was sectioned and mounted on linen in four separate sheets. Like most maps of its time it was hand coloured but neither the black and white reproduction nor the fact that this facsimile still shows the separate sections and is on four sheets detracts in any way from its interest. The sheets, which are about 19 inches square, are on high quality paper and come with a fifth sheet which comprises an introduction, in his usual easy but erudite style, by Mr. Philip Riden, the Society's Secretary and moving spirit. There is no need to be put off by the problem of how to store these five sheets, which are of course too big to frame at reasonable cost. The problem is solved by keeping them in the sturdy plan box in which they arrive! The very reasonable price of £ 4.50 to non-members of the Record Society should be sent, by cheque payable to the Society, to Mrs. K. S. Beaudette, 22 Redbrink Crescent, Barry Island, South Glam. Details of discounted prices for bulk orders have already been circulated to all Local History Societies. The reproduction is first rate and there is none of the frustration of trying to read a photocopy obtained at considerable expense from, say, the British Library only to find that the bit you are particularly interested in is under a black blob. The importance of this map, which is not the one referred to by Michael at his p.59 and which he does not reproduce, is that it is drawn virtually to Ordnance Survey standards and pre-dates all but the earliest industrial development in the north of the county. It is clear that the Greenwoods were using, at any rate for the area round Usk, the sketches of the O.S. surveyors who had done the work in 1813 for the 2" edition, M'shire Sheet 203. 1 obtained a copy of the original sketches for this sheet, unfortunately not signed by the surveyor, from the British Library some time ago and had noted that