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Smallholding => Land Management => Topic started by: Foobar on October 12, 2015, 12:59:16 pm

Title: "Collects" map term
Post by: Foobar on October 12, 2015, 12:59:16 pm: What does the term "Collects" mean on a map? (magic-defra OS map in this case) I know it has something to do with water as it's in blue, like "Issues", "Spr" etc, but what exactly does it mean....?
Title: Re: "Collects" map term
Post by: Womble on October 12, 2015, 02:40:18 pm: Great question!

I'd like to know what 'issues' are though too - apparently I have one or two, whilst my neighbours have got loads of them!! :innocent:
Title: Re: "Collects" map term
Post by: Foobar on October 12, 2015, 02:44:50 pm: Issues are where water comes out of the ground - I assume as "draining water" as opposed to a "spring".
Title: Re: "Collects" map term
Post by: verdifish on October 12, 2015, 02:57:30 pm: I believe collects are a term for non permanent pondsor pools of water. Ie over run from flooding.
Title: Re: "Collects" map term
Post by: Foobar on October 12, 2015, 03:01:32 pm: Oooo I think I've found it [member=2128]Womble[/member] .... http://www.fraw.org.uk/mei/archive/handouts/o-series/o04/o04-water.pdf (http://www.fraw.org.uk/mei/archive/handouts/o-series/o04/o04-water.pdf) Page 2, left hand para :) . Doesn't explain the difference between a Spring and an Issue though.
Title: Re: "Collects" map term
Post by: Penninehillbilly on October 13, 2015, 12:15:28 pm: Looking at our maps it seems the issues run into troughs, so perhaps where water has been picked up by drain or pipe elsewhere and piped through for a field supply?
Title: Re: "Collects" map term
Post by: Holdcroft on November 23, 2021, 07:56:12 am: Collects and Issues are defined in https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/os-mastermap-real-world-object-catalogue.pdf (https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/os-mastermap-real-world-object-catalogue.pdf):

Collects: Where a bog or a marsh becomes a stream.
Issues: The source of a stream which is a natural emission from an agricultural drain, or where the stream re-emerges from underground.
Title: Re: "Collects" map term
Post by: Forestlens on November 23, 2021, 02:10:40 pm: We have many Issues, most of which are not mapped, at least on MAGIC! Fortunately most of the Collects are in the woodland. None of the Collects are mapped; but I know a bog when I drive into one!! :innocent:
Title: Re: "Collects" map term
Post by: Womble on November 23, 2021, 05:55:53 pm: [member=214140]Holdcroft[/member] , I don't know where you've been for the past six years, but I'm really glad you're here now. Welcome! :thumbsup: