Fully revised & updated for 2009, Street by Street High Wycombe Midi clearly shows AA recommended restaurants, pubs, hotels, one-way streets & car parks. Featuring a clever use of colour to ensure they can be read under street lighting, these maps are all you need to keep you on the move. Speed cameras with speed limits are now shown on the mapping. ...

High Wycombe, Amersham, Beaconsfield, Chesham & Marlow Street Atlas from the Geographers` A-Z Map Company in a paperback format slightly smaller than A5. Map scale is 1:19, 000 (3.33” to a mile). Coverage

Includes:: Bourne End, Chalfont St. Giles, Chalfont St. Peter, Chorleywood, Gerrards Cross, Great Missenden, Holmer Green & Prestwood. Current edition of this title was published in 2013. 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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Highams Park & Hale End in 1915 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 area from Highams Park station southward to Macdonald Road, Walthamstow. Features include Hale End, part of Epping Forest, Chapel End, Rowden Park, Xylonite Works, Selwyn Avenue with schools, Salisbury Hall, & a tramway. On the reverse are street directory entries for Beech Hall Road, Brookscroft Road, Chingford Road, Hale End Road, Selwyn Avenue, & Winchester Road. 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. ...

Highbury & Islington in 1871 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. Three versions of this map cover the same area, from York Road eastward to Rotherfield Street, & from Cloudsley Square northward to Witherington Road. Highbury & Islington station is near the centre of the map, which covers much of Islington & also southern Highbury, Barnsbury & Canonbury. Major roads running through the map include Upper Street, Essex Road, Liverpool Road & Caledonian Road. Features include the Kings Cross railway approaches; North London Railway, including Canonbury, Highbury & Islington, Caledonian Road & (at extreme west edge) Maiden Lane stations; Metropolitan Cattle Market, Belle Isle, Thornhill Square, Lonsdale Square, Highbury Fields, Milner Square, Canonbury Square, Islington Town Hall & Peabody Square. 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. ...

Highbury & Islington in 1894 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. Three versions of this map cover the same area: from York Road eastward to Rotherfield Street, & from Cloudsley Square northward to Witherington Road. Highbury & Islington station is near the centre of the map, which covers much of Islington & also southern Highbury, Barnsbury & Canonbury. Major roads running through the map include Upper Street, Essex Road, Liverpool Road & Caledonian Road. Features include the Kings Cross railway approaches; North London Railway with Canonbury, Highbury & Islington, Caledonian Road & (at extreme west edge) Maiden Lane stations; Metropolitan Cattle Market, Belle Isle, Thornhill Square, Lonsdale Square, Highbury Fields, Milner Square, Canonbury Square, Islington Town Hall & Peabody Square. 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. ...

Highbury & Islington in 1914 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. Three versions of this map cover the same area, York Road eastward to Rotherfield Street, & from Cloudsley Square northward to Witherington Road. Highbury & Islington station is near the centre of the map, which covers much of Islington & also southern Highbury, Barnsbury & Canonbury. Major roads running through the map include Upper Street, Essex Road, Liverpool Road & Caledonian Road. Features include the Kings Cross railway approaches; North London Railway with Canonbury, Highbury & Islington, Caledonian Road & (at extreme west edge) Maiden Lane stations; Metropolitan Cattle Market, Belle Isle, Thornhill Square, Lonsdale Square, Highbury Fields, Milner Square, Canonbury Square, Islington Town Hall & Peabody Square. 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. ...

Higher Blackley in 1915 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 what was still a semi-rural area north of Manchester, stretching along the Rochdale Road & Manchester New Road, & westward to Higher Blackley. A distinct community at Crab Lane is shown, with St Andrew`s church, Fox Hole Farm, Fox Holes, Plane Trees & other outlying farms. Streets are being developed along the newly built Victoria Avenue & other features include Convent of the Good Shepherd (at top of map), Alkrington Colliery (disused), Plant Hill, tramways, Blackley Rectory, Blackley Steel Works, Pike Fold Cottages, etc. On the reverse are extracts from a 1917 street directory, including Chapel Lane, Crab Lane, Heaton Park Road, Nelson Road & Victoria Avenue. 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. ...

Why do road cyclists go to the mountains? After all, cycling up a mountain is hard – so hard that, to many non-cyclists, it can seem absurd. But, for some, climbing a mountain gracefully (and beating your competitors up the slope) represents the pinnacle of cycling achievement. The mountains are where legends are forged & cycling’s greats make their names. Many books tell you where the mountains are, or how long & how high. None of them ask ‘ Why?’ Why are Europe’s mountain ranges professional cycling’s Wembley Stadium or its Colosseum? Why do amateurs also make a pilgrimage to these high, remote roads & what do we see & feel when we do? Why are the roads there in the first place? Higher Calling explores the central place of mountains in the folklore of road cycling. Blending adventure & travel writing with the rich narrative of pro racing, Max Leonard takes the reader from the battles that created the Alpine roads to the shepherds tending their flocks on the peaks, & to a Grand Tour climax on the ‘highest road in Europe’. & he tells stories of courage & sacrifice, war & love, obsession & elephants along the way. ...