| Description | Map: 'A representation of the earth's surface or a part of it, its physical and political features, etc., or of the heavens, delineated on a flat surface of paper according to a definite scale or projection.'
Plan: '1. A large scale detailed map of a town or district. 2. A drawing showing the relative positions of the parts of a building or any one floor on a horizontal plane.'
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1954 edition.
The above definitions have been when cataloguing the map and plan collection, however if the author of a document described it as a map it has been catalogued as a map even if by the above definitions it should be a plan. Similarly if the author described a document as a plan it has been catalogued as a plan since the use of the two words has varied over centuries.
Plans are listed under the following headings
SANT/PLA/1 Durham
SANT/PLA/1/1 Durham: Topographical plans A-Z
SANT/PLA/1/2 Durham: Church plans
SANT/PLA/1/3 Durham: Building plans other than churches
SANT/PLA/2 Newcastle and Gateshead
SANT/PLA/2/1 Newcastle and Gateshead: Countywide plans
SANT/PLA/2/2 Newcastle and Gateshead: Township plans
SANT/PLA/2/3 Newcastle and Gateshead: Building plans
SANT/PLA/3 Northumberland
SANT/PLA/3/1 Northumberland: Topographical plans A-Z
SANT/PLA/3/2 Northumberland: Building plans
SANT/PLA/3/3 Northumberland: Specialist plans
SANT/PLA/3/4 Northumberland: Historical plans
SANT/PLA/4 Plans of other areas in Great Britain
SANT/PLA/5 Regional plans
SANT/PLA/6 Foreign plans
SANT/PLA/7 Archaeological plans
SANT/PLA/7/1 Archaeological plans: Prehistoric plans
SANT/PLA/7/2 Archaeological plans: Roman plans
SANT/PLA/7/3 Archaeological plans: Medieval and later plans
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