Percy Manning (1870–1917), antiquary and folklorist is considered to be 'The Man who collected Oxfordshire'. From the early 1890s he amassed a huge volume of documentary information and illustrations of the archaeology and history of the county, now held by the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum. He also acquired large collections of archaeological and social history artefacts, now held by the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers Museums. Sadly his work remained unfinished at his death in 1917.
Funded by the OUMP Innovation Fund, the Mapping Manning website provides two sets of on-line research resources for the local history and archaeology of Oxford and Oxfordshire.
- a searchable geo-referenced catalogue of Manning's various collections.
- a Geographic Information System (GIS) based on Manning’s hand-annotated set of 114 large-scale O.S. maps of the county and surrounding areas on which he marked archaeological sites and finds.
