The Ordnance Survey International Collection

The air photography, map and survey record archives of The Ordnance Survey International Collection were created over a period of 53 years from 1946, under the auspices of first the Directorate of Colonial Surveys, then successively the Directorate of Overseas Surveys, the Ordnance Survey (Overseas Surveys Directorate) and finally, Ordnance Survey International.

Following a review in 2002, Ordnance Survey decided that the OS International Library, as it was then called, was no longer needed for operational purposes and responsibility for the records then passed to the National Archives. Public access to the Library in OS Headquarters ceased in March 2003.

The renamed collection has been relocated to a number of custodians, and these pages have been created to enable researchers to locate any of the material that they need.

In this section:

• History of The Ordnance Survey International Collection
• Where items have been dispersed
• Custodian contact details