BBC

How to read Ordnance Survey maps

Large-scale maps - 1:1,250, 1:2,500 and 1:10,000. Features appear larger on the map. This may be used for individual towns and cities. Small-scale - 1:25,000, 1:50,000 and 1:100,000. Features appear ...
The Independent

Map reading: How to navigate on a hike without using a smartphone

Hiking is set to overtake yoga, according to trend forecaster WGSN. This shouldn’t come as any great surprise. The benefits of spending time in nature are well documented and can include a decrease in ...
The Daily Telegraph

Ordnance Survey maps to change as magentic north heads East of grid north

A new icon will be displayed on Ordnance Survey maps so that hikers and orienteers can adjust their compasses after magentic North shifted east of grid North for the first time since their charts ...
Nature

The National Grid of the Ordnance Survey

THE Departmental, Committee appointed in 1935 by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries to consider Ordltoyras Survey plans and maps recommended that tha large-scale plans of Great Britain should ...
Nature

A Grid System for Ordnance Survey Maps

A PAPER by Brigadier M. N. MacLeod, Director General of the Ordnance Survey, on “A Grid System for the Maps of Great Britain” was read at a recent meeting of the Royal Geographical Society. Brigadier ...