North Queensferry in Maps – from Roman times to the present day

Ptolemy 2nd Century AD – his map shows the Forth Estuary, and the names of the various tribes living in Scotland
Matthew Paris – 1250 – shows transitus regine – Queen’s Passage or Crossing
John Hardyng – 1457 – shows Dunfermline and Inverkeithing
Laurence Nowell – 1560 – shows Q ferry on south bank of the Forth, with Garvie in midstream
Mercator’s Scotia Regnum – 1595 – clearly shows Queensferry
Timothy Pont c 1590 – the first detailed maps of Scotland, showing Inverkeithing and North Ferrie
Timothy Pont’s portrayal of towns – Pat Dennison explained the detail in Pont’s maps
Robert Gordon 1640 – expanded on Pont’s manuscripts
James Gordon 1642 – cleaned up Pont’s manuscripts and passed then to Joan Blaeu
Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654 – used Pont’s manuscripts as the basis for Volume V of his Atlas novus
Greenvile Collins – 1693 – mapped the coast of Britain, including the Firth of Forth
John Adair – 1703 – used triangulation to create clean accurate maps
Herman Moll – 1745 – published a book of maps of Britain
William Roy – 1747 – surveyed Scotland for the Government
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin – 1757 – surveyed the coast of Britain for the French government!
John Ainslie – 1785 – produced accurate maps of Scotland, while Roy’s maps were locked away
Origins of the Ordnance Survey – 1791 – England was surveyed to enable troop movements in the event of trouble across the Channel
The first published O.S. Map – 1801 – Kent in 1801, with links to North Queensferry via the Royal Naval Air Service.
Ordnance Survey Name Books – gave the definitive names to towns, hills, rivers etc.
North Queensferry Place Names – defined for the first OS map of North Queensferry in 1856
Modern Maps – OS maps and satellite images from 1856 to 2016
Stephen Reid’s Map of NQ residents and businesses – Stephen’s memories of village life in the 20th century