Keep trying Lyn,
It may just be a glitch.
It works within the UK just as an entry of :- old-maps.co.uk
If you can get into this site then select the place name:- Digby.
County:- Lincolnshire.
Once zero'd in on Digby:- scan right (East) and follow the road
that travels out of the village that goes to the village of Walcot.
The Catley site which includes the Catley Abbey, the Catley
Abbey Seltzer Spring and Catley Cottages are about 2/3rds of the
way along this road from Digby towards Walcot where the road first takes
a very obvious right and then left turn in a zig zag form.
At the bottom of the toolbar you should see an icon to obtain an aerial
photo. The visual quality is not good but one can certainly see
more than just crop marks in the grass and the building
foundation walls look to be quite complicated within the
modern triangular boundary lines.
Even now, looking at the height above sea level markers shown
on this old map, the Abbey site was at 25 feet and thus with a little
imagination one can visualize it being an island standing alone in
the marshes back in 1143 AD when it was first built.
Timcatt
----- Original Message -----
From: L L Milnes <landairwater(a)xnet.co.nz
To:
<CATLEY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006
11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [CAT...] Catley Abbey Map.
Couldn't open it Tim - it said "error". If I go to
the Old-Maps site,
are
there any search terms you could suggest?
Thanks. Sounds very interesting.
Lyn Milnes
in New Zealand
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Cattley" <timjhcat(a)tiscali.co.uk
To:
<CATLEY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006
11:54 AM
Subject: [CAT...] Catley Abbey Map.
> Hello Kay et al,
> Just in case you have not found a good map + aerial
photograph of the
> Catley monastic
> site in Lincolnshire try the following:
>
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/oldmaps/landaerial.jsp
> According to the info, the accompanying map was printed
in 1891-92 and
> shows the
> site of the Catley Abbey Seltzer Spring in the adjoining field as well
as
> the Abbey location.
> By playing with the sizes you can get a print out of both
the map and
the
> modern aerial shot
> which are to the same scale.
> Regards
> Timcatt
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