What the ground was doing a hundred years before anyone offered it to you.
A plot is sold on what is there now. The historic Ordnance Survey sheet for the same ground shows what was there before — a pond that was filled, a quarry that was levelled, a building whose footings never left. None of that stops a plot being a good one. All of it is cheaper to know about before you offer than after you dig.
This is free and it takes about two minutes. We aim the National Library of Scotland’s side-by-side viewer at your plot, you screenshot what it shows you, and we read the two maps and list what differs between them.
We read a handful of plots per day from any one connection, because each read costs us something. The map viewer itself is free and unlimited, and the link we build for you goes on working either way.
It is not a survey, a search, or an opinion on whether to buy. We tell you what the two maps show and how they differ. We do not tell you what it means, because two maps cannot say that and neither can we. What it is for is knowing which questions to put to your solicitor and your engineer before you have paid either of them.
We aim the maps at the postcode’s centre, not at your boundary. You pan the last hundred metres yourself.