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These are splendid ways of looking down on your ancestors’ world, to see what the terrain was like, what roads, rivers and railways there were, what other parishes were nearby – and perhaps even spot their actual houses.

All local archives and histories will help here. Reference books often say you will sometimes find detailed local maps in estate records, records of railway and canal companies, and processes of the Court of Session (as detailed in Descriptive List of Plans in the Scottish Record Office) – but few people have time to search these, and many already appear in local history books. But do look at the National Library of Scotland’s map collection, in Edinburgh, or at its fabulous site, www.nls.uk/maps/index.html. This includes the earliest surviving detailed maps of Scotland, by Timothy Pont, made about 1583-96, which come with textual descriptions

A map from the surveyor’s report to the Crown Commissioners on the lands of Strowan (Struan, Perthshire), one of the estates annexed or forfeited to the Crown after the 1745 rebellion.