Gravesend, Rochester & the Hoo Peninsula area on a detailed topographic & GPS compatible map No. 163, paper version, from the Ordnance Survey’s 1:25, 000 Explorer series. MOBILE DOWNLOADS: this title & all the other OS Explorer maps include a code for downloading after purchase the digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS EXPLORER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Explorer series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. The Explorer series, Ordnance Survey’s most detailed maps recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities, provides topographic coverage of Great Britain at 1:25, 000 on GPS compatible maps with hiking trails, cycling routes & extensive tourist information. Each printed map is available either on paper or as a waterproof & tear-resistant OS Active Map, as indicated in its title. Britain’s National Parks & other areas of particular tourist interest are presented on often double-sided OL (Outdoor Leisure) maps, whilst most standard format Explorers cover an area of 30 x 20km (approx. 19 x 12 miles). All three versions (paper, waterproof & digital) are the same & provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways. National Trails & other long-distance paths are marked, as well as permissive footpaths or bridleways & on-road or traffic-free cycle routes with, where appropriate, their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. Boundaries of access land are clearly marked. A wide range of symbols provides additional tourist information, highlighting camping & caravanning sites, information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, country pubs, sport & recreational facilities including cycle hire locations & mountain biking trails, historic buildings & museums, etc. Exceptionally clear presentation of the landscape is provided by contours at 5m or in the uplands at 10m intervals, with additional spot heights plus colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards, heath, marshl&, scree or boulders, & other topographic features. For GPS users the maps have British National Grid lines at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1`. Clearly laid out map legend

Includes:: French & German translations for the tourist information symbols.

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Laminated waterproof edition of a detailed topographic map of Graves End & Rochester from the Ordnance Survey Explorer series, covering Hoo Peninsula (showing part of the North Downs Way). Edition B3; Publication date January 2009 About this series: These highly detailed maps show all the administrative boundaries, settlements as small as isolated farms, the road network down to unfenced roads & country tracks, & field boundaries (hedges & drystone walls) which make navigation across the countryside much easier. Steep gradients on roads are indicated. Various landmarks, e.g. powerlines, archaeological sites, windmills, churches & lighthouses are shown & additional graphics indicate natural terrain features such as cliffs, scree, mud & vegetation variations. The contour interval is 5 metres in the lower parts of the country & 10 metres in the uplands, & spot heights are marked. Each map covers an area of 30 x 20km (i.e. approx. 19 x 12 miles), with some double-sided maps covering more, as indicated in the individual descriptions. The maps are fully GPS compatible, with the National Grid shown at 1km intervals & latitude & longitude indicated by margin ticks at 1'. The Explorer series has replaced the earlier, green-cover Pathfinder maps. The Explorer series is now complete & covers all of Engl&, Wales & Scotl&. Some sheets for popular areas like the National Parks are still branded as Outdoor Leisure (OL) maps, but are now included in this series as the cartography is the same as that in the Explorer Maps. The Explorer maps offer a substantial improvement on the Pathfinder series, with greater use of colour, larger area per map, & stronger emphasis on information for ramblers & tourists. This series is ideal for walking & other outdoor pursuits & each map shows a large amount of information for ramblers & tourists. Public rights of way are shown (except in Scotland), together with other routes with public access: National Trails & Recreational Paths, permitted paths & bridleways, & selected cycle routes. Open access land created under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 is marked. Tourist information

Includes:: caravan & campsites, Park & Ride locations, recreation/leisure/sport centres, museums, historic buildings, English Heritage & National Trust sites, rural pubs, etc. The map legend is in English only, except for the tourist information content which is also in French & German.

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Gravesend, an original antique map by R.K. Dawson, published in London, c. 1832. A steel plate engraving, original o/l colour. Map size 31 x 22 cm with a mount size of 47.5 x 37.5 cm.A detailed plan of Gravesend showing the boundary changes after the Reform Bill of 1832. The town was mapped by Lieutenant Robert Kearsley RE (1798-1861), Head of the Survey Department of the Commons Enclosure & Copyhold Commission. He superintended the preparation of numerous nineteenth-century tithe maps, county maps, city maps such as this & boundary surveys. He is perhaps best known for the work Plans Of The Cities & Boroughs Of England & Wales that was published by Hansard in 1832 & for the table of conventional signs that were used on so many of his maps, as here. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford ...

Gravesend in 1865 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the centre & east of Gravesend, stretching from the railway station eastward to the Ship & Lobster pub & West Court, & from the river southward to Windmill Hill & West Hill Villa. Features include the town centre, Terrace Gardens & Royal Terrace Pier, Town Pier, Milton Barracks, Cumberland House, Trinity church, Christ Church, Bronte Villas, Old Windmill & nearby maze, Tivoli House, East Milton, Denton Court, St Mary`s church in ruins, Denton Marshes, railway, Thames & Medway Canal, Albion Baths, Denton Windmill. A list of private residents from an 1874 directory is on the reverse. The map is a splendid portrait of Gravesend when it was a major tourist town. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

If you explore our churchyards & cemeteries you will be astonished at how much you can discover, not only about the people who are buried there & their standing in the local community but also about the history of the area. Trevor Yorke explains burial practices down the ages & details the development of the churchyard & the cemetery. He looks at the period styles of gravestones & tombs, & the shapes & features that help to date them. Using a wide range of photographs & line illustrations, he examines the carvings & symbols that can be found & offers clues to their possible meanings. ...

” The greatest, wildest author of his generation”. (” Guardian”). We could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop & that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe & crashing to earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests. But that doesn`t really begin to cover it. Reading this book is like falling down a rabbit hole into an outlandish, sinister, mysterious, absurd, compulsive netherworld. As the ” Financial Times” said, `you must forget earlier notions about life & letters & even the Novel.` Forty years since publication, ” Gravity`s Rainbow” has lost none of its power to enthral. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Grays. Thurrock, Corringham, South Ockendon, Stanford-le-Hope & Tilbury Street Atlas from the Geographers` A-Z Map Company in a paperback format slightly smaller than A5. Map scale is 1:15, 840 (4” to a mile). Coverage

Includes:: Aveley, Bulphan, Chadwell St. Mary, East Tilbury & Purfleet. Current edition of this title was published in 2016. To see other titles in this series of A-Z street atlases of towns & cities please click on the series link. A-Z also publish a series of County Street Atlases
- for a list of titles in that series please search for SI00000917.A-Z street atlases present motorways plus A & B roads highlighted by colouring & shown with route numbers. One way or restricted access streets & car parks are marked, as are in more recently published titles locations of speed cameras. Also shown are selected cycleway routes. Where appropriate, A & B roads are annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Railway lines are shown with stations & level crossings. Colouring indicates different types of buildings: educational, hospitals & healthcare, industrial, leisure & recreational, shopping centres & markets, public buildings, & places of interest. Symbols mark locations of facilities usually indicated on street mapping: post offices, emergency services, public toilets, etc. Also marked are postcode & local authority boundaries. Each page has the lines & coordinates of the British National Grid. The indexes list streets, places & areas, hospitals, industrial estates, blocks of flats on housing estates, railway stations, & selected places o interest; the latter are printed in contrasting colouring to make them easier to find.


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The highly successful Globetrotter Travel Series, which

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Graz & Environs area of south-eastern Austria presented at 1:50, 000 in a series of contoured & GPS compatible outdoor leisure map from Freytag & Berndt with hiking & cycling routes, mountain huts, campsites & youth hostels, local bus stops, plus other tourist information. To see the list of currently available titles in this series please click on the series link. Freytag & Berndt’s outdoor leisure maps cover the whole of Austria at 1:50, 000, with selected popular areas also presented with 50K cartography enlarged to 1:35, 000 for larger print & clearer legibility. The maps have contours at 100m intervals in the mountainous areas & 50m elsewhere, enhanced by shading, graphic relief & colouring for woodlands. The overprint highlighting waymarked hiking trails is graded into three types: easy walks, mountain paths, & more difficult alpine sections. Waymarked trails including long-distance routes are annotated with their numbers and/or signs. The maps also highlight cycling & mountain biking routes, cross-country ski tracks, & Nordic walking tracks. Symbols indicate mountain huts, youth hostels, campsites & countryside hotels/inns, bus stops on local roads, car parks plus various facilities & places of interest. The maps have a 2-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 5’ intervals. Selected titles also have in the accompanying booklet (see below) an additional list of GPS waypoints indicated on the map. Map legend

Includes:: English.IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING: most titles come with booklets in GERMAN containing extensive additional information including an index of main locations, suggestions for walks (often accompanied by route profiles) & other recreational activities, lists of mountain huts & other recommended accommodation, etc. Unless specified in the title’s individual description, all the information is in German only & no English language version of the booklet is available. Some titles carry similar information on the reverse.

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