We often will turn to the first edition Ordnance Survey maps to explore the townlands of ... from the tallest mountain tops to the smallest hills, based on a minutely accurate base line near ...

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Andy Donohoe Sliding into the rust-coloured banquette seating, I grab one of the pre-marked Ordnance Survey maps and get to work ... training lacks any serious hills, I know that even this ...

The Ordnance Survey was founded in 1791 and authorised to carry out the first national mapping survey two years later. In the 1850s, basic scales were set at 25 inches to the mile (1:2500) for rural ...

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