The records of the land utilisation surveys of Britain

An investigation of the unpublished records of the LUSGB and also later land use surveys. During this investigation, at the Royal Geographical Society we located, scanned and geo-referenced the 56 unpublished Stamp maps (all in Scotland). This completed our scanned image coverage of Great Britain available to all on the Vision of Britain website.

An initial examination was carried out of Stamp's papers in the University of Sussex archives. They included instructions to schools and correspondence with County Education Committees etc. on how the survey was actually carried out. This material was central to establishing how the Stamp survey defined their land use categories. We also investigated the material held in the London School of Economics archives which includes the original colour separations which were used to create twenty of the published sheets.

This work was funded by The Frederick Soddy Trust.