Maharashtra in a series of waterproof & tear-resistant maps from Bharat Graphics, showing local districts in different colours & indicating both administrative headquarters of each district & of its subdivisions, the tehsils (or tahsils, tahasils, talukas, taluks, taluqs). Roads are classified as national or state highways & other roads, some with driving distances. Railway lines are also marked & some titles have symbols indicating places of interest or rest houses. Maps of states in mountainous areas show names of main valleys, on other titles there is no topographic information. The maps have no geographical coordinates. Some titles include insets with enlargements of popular areas or street plans, & distance tables. All the maps are indexed & have a small booklet providing a basic guide to the state district by district. The maps are printed on a waterproof & tear-resistant paper. Please note: the various series of state maps of India often show different small villages, supplementing each other to provide a more detail picture of each state. ...

Indian state of Maharashtra on road map from the Delhi-based International Publications, showing many small towns & villages, with a 38-page booklet describing the state & its sights. Additional features include an enlargement showing in greater detail road & railway connections around Mumbai; a physical map of the state with altitude colouring; a distance chart; a table listing administrative units with size, population, literacy, etc. Illustrated booklet

Includes:: notes on beaches & hill stations, fairs & festivals, pilgrimage pales, wildlife, etc. Unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, maps in this series present the state with its constituent districts in different colours & also show the division of districts into talukas. Town symbols indicate both district & taluka headquarters. Road network

Includes:: many local roads, some with driving distances, although sometimes locations are marked without road access to them shown on the map. Railway lines are included & local airports are marked. Symbols indicate various locations of interest, including historical sites, wildlife sanctuaries, beaches, etc. In many titles additional panels around the main map and/or in the accompanying booklet provide more information: enlargements with more detailed presentation of the road network, street plans of main cities, etc. The booklets, which also include a general introduction to the state & district-by-district descriptions, are published on high quality paper & are illustrated with numerous colour photos. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.



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Road atlas of the state with maps arranged by administrative districts. Road information gives distances but does not indicate the type of road surface. The maps show railway lines, places of interest such as hill stations, beaches, historical & religious centres, etc. The atlas also contains rather basic street plans of main towns, indicating important public buildings, monuments, etc. Brief descriptions of each district include details of population, literacy, etc. ...

Indexed streetmap of the whole city. Detail

Includes:: unsurfaced roads, tracks, railways, post offices,

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Topographic coverage of the Balearic Islands at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional – 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). The MTN50 series was begun in late 1990s. Each map covers 28.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the 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. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Maidenhead in 1897 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. Maidenhead is covered by two maps. MAIDENHEAD map covers the centre of the town & an area stretching from Punt Hill & Courthouse Lane eastward to Bridge Street, & from the railway station northward to Cordwalles College & Northtown House. Features include the High Street, Queen Street, Market Street, St Luke`s church, Chapel Arches, Eaststreet Cottages, Grenfell Park, Castle Hill, Bath Road, Boyn Hill, All Saints church, All Saints Avenue, workhouse, smallpox hospital, cemetery, Belmont House, Craufurd College, Northtown Cottage, St Ives Place & Kidwells Park. MAIDENHEAD BRIDGE & TAPLOW covers the eastern part of the town & an area eastward to Taplow. Coverage stretches from Bridge Road eastward to Taplow station, & northward to Taplow Court. Taplow village, with St Nicholas church, Taplowhill House, Taplow Paper Works & Queens Head Hotel, is at the top of the map. The River Thames runs north-south through the map & beside it are Oldfield Lodge, Orkney Arms Hotel, Thames Hotel, Bridge House, numerous boat houses, Grosvenor House, Raymead Hotel & other buildings. Large houses stand on Ray Park Avenue, part of the Ray Park Estate. Directories of Maidenhead & Taplow are on the reverse. 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. ...

Maidenhead Bridge & Taplow in 1897 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. Maidenhead is covered by two maps. MAIDENHEAD map covers the centre of the town & an area stretching from Punt Hill & Courthouse Lane eastward to Bridge Street, & from the railway station northward to Cordwalles College & Northtown House. Features include the High Street, Queen Street, Market Street, St Luke`s church, Chapel Arches, Eaststreet Cottages, Grenfell Park, Castle Hill, Bath Road, Boyn Hill, All Saints church, All Saints Avenue, workhouse, smallpox hospital, cemetery, Belmont House, Craufurd College, Northtown Cottage, St Ives Place & Kidwells Park. MAIDENHEAD BRIDGE & TAPLOW covers the eastern part of the town & an area eastward to Taplow. Coverage stretches from Bridge Road eastward to Taplow station, & northward to Taplow Court. Taplow village, with St Nicholas church, Taplowhill House, Taplow Paper Works & Queens Head Hotel, is at the top of the map. The River Thames runs north-south through the map & beside it are Oldfield Lodge, Orkney Arms Hotel, Thames Hotel, Bridge House, numerous boat houses, Grosvenor House, Raymead Hotel & other buildings. Large houses stand on Ray Park Avenue, part of the Ray Park Estate. Directories of Maidenhead & Taplow are on the reverse. 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. ...

Maidenhead, Marlow & Bourne End in the Cassini Past & Present map series which covers town & cities of England & Wales & offers a unique way of tracing their history & expansion by showing four different periods of their development using Ordnance Survey mapping from the mid-19th century, the late 19th century, the 1920s & the present day. Coverage

Includes:: Bray, Burnham, Cookham, Hare Hatch, Holyport, Hurley, Knowl Hill, Taplow, Waltham St Lawrence, & White Waltham. Each Past & Present map consists of four panels, all centred on a city or a town & covering exactly the same 15km x 15km area. Three of the panels reproduce Ordnance Survey’s historical editions: the Old Series, the Revised New Series & the Popular Edition, enlarged from their original inch-to-the-mile to match the 1:50, 000 scale of the present-day Landranger extract shown in the fourth panel.* Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring.* Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines.* Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc. National Grid lines are shown on all four panels for easy comparison across the four time periods. Historical notes, details of the original maps used & web-links for local history societies & other sources of information are also provided. *PLEASE NOTE:** Reproductions from the Ordnance Survey’s historical series are also available as maps of a wider area, with each title corresponding in its coverage to a present day Landranger map. Please see Great Britain: Cassini Historical Reproductions of Ordnance Survey One-Inch Maps series.* Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all the series *centring the map on a location of your choice.* For more information please click on the link below.

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In 1943 Emma Smith joined the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company under their wartime scheme of employing women to replace the boaters. She set out with two friends on a big adventure: three eighteen-year-olds, freed from a middle-class background, precipitated into the boating fraternity. They learn how to handle a pair of seventy-two foot-long canal boats, how to carry a cargo of steel north from London to Birmingham & coal from Coventry; how to splice ropes, bail out bilge water, keep the engine ticking over & steer through tunnels. They live off kedgeree & fried bread & jam, adopt a kitten, lose their bicycles, laugh & quarrel & get progressively dirtier & tougher as the weeks go by. ” Maidens` Trip” is a classic memoir of the growth to maturity of three young women in the exceptional circumstances of Britain at war. ...

Maidstone, Medway Towns (Chatham, Gillingham Rochester, Strood), Sheerness & Sittingbourne 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), with enlargements showing the town centres of Maidstone, Chatham, Gillingham & Rochester in greater detail at 1:9, 500 (6.67” to 1 mile). Coverage

Includes:: Bearsted, Coxheath, Harrietsham, Higham, Minster, Sutton Valence, Snodl&, Wateringbury & West Malling. Current edition of this title was published in j UNE 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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