Sevenoaks North & Riverhead in 1907 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. Sevenoaks is covered on two maps: the North sheet covers the area from Eardley Road northward to Bradbourne Vale. Features include railways with Sevenoaks station, Bradbourne Hall, Montreal, Montreal Park, Bessel`s Green, Chipstead Common, Riverhead, St Mary`s church, The Vine, Lyle Court, etc. The South map covers London Road & the High Street. Features here include St Nicholas church, grammar school, St Mary`s church, Bulimba, Bishop`s Court, Kippington Grange, The New Beacon, Great Britain`s Wood, Mildridge Wood, Middling`s Wood etc. Each map

Includes:: extracts from a 1905 Directory of Sevenoaks. 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.

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Sevenoaks South in 1907 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. Sevenoaks is covered on two maps: the North sheet covers the area from Eardley Road northward to Bradbourne Vale. Features include railways with Sevenoaks station, Bradbourne Hall, Montreal, Montreal Park, Bessel`s Green, Chipstead Common, Riverhead, St Mary`s church, The Vine, Lyle Court, etc. The South map covers London Road & the High Street. Features here include St Nicholas church, grammar school, St Mary`s church, Bulimba, Bishop`s Court, Kippington Grange, The New Beacon, Great Britain`s Wood, Mildridge Wood, Middling`s Wood etc. Each map

Includes:: extracts from a 1905 Directory of Sevenoaks. 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.

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The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain & boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute & it connects our inner selves to the outer world more evocatively than any other part of the body. Yet there is a dark side to the head`s pre-eminence. Over the centuries, human heads have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls & filled our museums. Long regarded as objects of fascination & repulsion, they have been props for artists & specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers & items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online & scientists promise the wealthy among us that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious & compelling as ever. From the western colonialists whose demand for shrunken heads spurred brutal massacres to the troops in the Second World War who sent the remains of Japanese soldiers home to their girlfriends; from the memento mori in Romantic portraits to Damien Hirst`s With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising cryonicists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome & confounding history of the severed head. Its story is our story. ...

Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls & filled our museums; they have been props for artists & specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers & items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online & cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious & compelling as ever. From shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst`s With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome & confounding history of the severed head. Its story is our story. ...

Severn & Avon in the Landmark Visitor Guides series, exploring a range of places in Britain, Europe & the Caribbean, with a particular expertise in UK destinations. Each guide presents the reader with detailed, wide-ranging & accessible overview of the region or area, with a particular focus on history & culture, notable local attractions, the landscape, local events & family activities. A series of recommended walks & guided car tours exploring the region are also included in each title. The guides are arranged geographically by region & are ideal both for short & longer breaks, with practical guidance on recommended routes & tourist attractions, in addition to insightful inset boxes into local history, culture & traditions. Information on accommodation, restaurants & day-to-day information are more limited, though a compact Directory at the end of each guide provides basic listings of recommended accommodation & restaurants, as well as tourist information contacts & regional event calendars. International destinations also carry climate & country facts, basic phrases & other general travel practical guidance for travelling to the region. The British titles in the Landmark Visitor Guides series are highly recommended, covering titles that are rarely available from other publishers. ...

Severn & Avon Pearson`s Canal Companion from Wayzgoose, showing parts of the Avon, the Severn, the Stratford Canal, the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal, the Worcester & Birmingham Canal, the Droitwich Canals, & the Cotswold Canals. Pearson’s Canal Companions have for over 30 year now been presenting Britain’s network of inland waterways on handy size, informative guides which combine practical information with interesting descriptions & facts about the surrounding countryside. The routes are shown in sections on maps at approx. 2” to 1 mile, & are annotated with locks, towpaths & nearby facilities. Rather than providing a more technical picture of each waterway (depth, clearance, etc), these guides are indeed true “companions” with the accompanying descriptions full of interesting historical or literary references, little know facts, etc. Where appropriate the maps are also accompanied by recommendations for eating & drinking, shopping, things to do, & public transport connections. Each guide also

Includes:: a boating directory with hire bases, boatyards, ferries, etc. Please note: Pearson’s Canal Companions sometimes indicate facilities and/or places of interest without showing detailed road access to them; it’s perhaps advisable to use these charming companions with proper road maps of the surrounding countryside.

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This is a travel & walking & boating guide to the Upper Thames & Cotswold Canals. Pearson's Canal Companions have achieved cult status with canal users of all kinds. These lively, colourful & committed books are generally regarded as the most detailed, informative & down-right entertaining guides to the inland waterways. Each of the nine titles in the series covers a popular route or area with large scale & highly detailed maps accompanied by a wide ranging commentary, descriptions of waterside towns & villages, & itemised listings on eating & drinking, shopping, visitor centres, public transport & boating facilities. Of particular use to walkers & cyclists is the classification of towpath conditions into three grades. Considerable coverage is given to items of industrial archaeological interest. The Severn & Avon Canal Companion covers Gloucester & Sharpness, Cotswold Canals & Upper Thames. ...

The 1:50 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50 000 topographic map sheets. ...

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- Nuorgam area at 1:100, 000 on a double-sided map in a series of beautiful & informative maps covering Finland’s
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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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