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Great Britain: A-Z/Ordnance Survey 25K Adventure Atlases

Selected hiking areas of Britain on handy size Adventure Atlases at 1:25,000 from Geographers` A-Z Map Company with cartography from the Ordnance Surveyโ€™s Explorer series. Each title has an index which includes geographical features, nature reserves, youth hostels and car parks, etc, and provides QR codes for other useful information.The atlases have cartography of the Ordnance Surveyโ€™s Explorer series and provide plenty of recreational and tourist information, indicating traditional public rights of way paths, including bridleways and byways restricted or open to motorized traffic. Also shown are other routes with public access, including permissive footpaths and bridleways. Special marking indicates National Trails, Long-distance Routes and Recreational Routes, and for cyclists the maps show traffic-free routes and the National Cycle Network. A wide range of symbols highlights locations of special tourist interest: camping and caravanning sites, youth hostels, information offices and visitorsโ€™ centres, parking and picnicking places, historic buildings (indicating where appropriate National Trust, English Heritage, or Cadw), sites for various recreational pursuits, country pubs, public toilets, etc. The mapping provides detailed presentation of the topography with contours at 5 or 10m intervals, numerous spot heights and colouring and/or graphics for different types of terrain or vegetation. Additional colouring shows access land, including areas managed by the National Trust, Forestry Commission and Woodland Trust. All the standard information expected of high quality survey mapping at this scale is included: finely graded road network, railway lines with stations, cuttings or embankments, individual isolated buildings, etc. For GPS each page as a 1-km British National Grid. Each atlas, presented in a handy A5 paperback format, has an index, additional notes on safety and security when walking, plus QR codes for obtaining by mobile phone information about local weather, danger areas, mountain rescue, map reading, OS national grid, etc.