N le

Fantastic this
Rod

Post three.

Sand Hill….Lat. 53° 33′ 27″N Long. 0° 05′ 46″W On the football ground just south of the path.

I have a series of other points running in a large arc which I have labelled S, T, U, V, W. I suspect these are the Block Hills but I need to check the positions and orientation of the arc so they may have to wait until tomorrow. I think the above gives you enough food for thought for one day
Your rough stab on the GoogleEarth pic is not far out of agreement with my calc for Ellyll A, just the opposite side of Chelmsford Ave. and the hill on the 1824 map fits pretty well too.

By George Sir! I think we’re cracking it between us.

As an aside, there are a whole series of asterisks marked prominently all over the map. I puzzled for a little while as to what unknown features they indicated; then I spotted a key to them with grid references…..they are the addresses of thirteen of my girlfriends of that era! Oh, the vanity

ingly yours,

N le

P.S. sorry about all the emoticons…..

Ellyll Hill A…..Lat. 53° 33′ 33″N Long. 0° 06′ 23″W On the allotments!
Ellyll Hill B…..Lat. 53° 33′ 25″N Long. 0° 06′ 40″W Under the row of houses facing Cambridge Rd.
Ellyll Hill C….Lat. 53° 33′ 20″N Long. 0° 06′ 49″W In the curved access road facing Carnforth Crescent.

That will do for post 2
N le

Its tally-ho amigo! I’ve just spent about an hour going through a suitcase of old maps rooting out any that might possibly be of use in our quests and guess what……I’ve found a 1960’s street map of Grimsby, 6ins. to the mile, with all sorts of manuscripted notes on it which I made over several decades. Crucially, there are some that I had totally forgotten about having done. Way back when I must have puzzled over the very issues which we are now trying to resolve!
I can see the compass marks at intersections and foci so I must have done a fairly good job of it.
I shall do a seperate set of triangulations in the near future but for the time being here are the spots marked on the map:

Toote Hill…Lat. Hill 53° 33′ 38″N Long. 0° 07′ 06″W Just west of the end of Peterhouse Rd.
Cun Hu Hill…Lat. 53° 33′ 27″N Long. 0° 07′ 30″W On the golf course, in line with Cambridge Rd.

I shall now work on the others and let you have them later this evening. Just can’t describe the excitement and exhileration over the potential developments we can make if these are confirmed.

Tremblingly yours, (hope nobody misconstrues that!)
N le

Yes I agree that it has potential; I would, however, reserve judgement until I am able to do some properly scaled cartographical comparisons. This is not in order to knock or disprove your theory; rather to reinforce it hopefully. Just good scientific practice.
As I’m sure you know, the first difficulty is the fact that Oliver’s map is not scaled but if two points are identifyable with any certainty then triangulation comes into play once the scale is adjusted to a modernish map.
I shall tackle this problem in the near future and produce overlays which should resolve it with some degree of certainty.

Regards,
N le

Fanfare……… Extracted from a 17thC. survey of Grimsby: ‘…..by then corn was being grown in the Fresh Ings, the Salt Ings, Hell Hill, Penny Platts, the Seven Acres and the Four Acres, all of which lay between the original open fields and the commons.’ - by E.E. Gillett

Hellishly yours,
N le

Any names they have will be based on a reason, one thing I’ve found is that generic names don’t seem to apply when going back in time - there always seems to be a reason why something is named thus.
Off to have another look at MAAG
Cheers
Rod