It's midway through October, so before the days get too short to make it worthwhile, why not grab your compass and hiking boots, shrug on your waterproof and take to the hills. Chances are, if you're ...

Featuring highly detailed cartography, the unique story of Scarborough’s urban history and related topography is to be ...

WITH regard to the feature 'Heaney townland does not officially exist' (september 9), the statement that Anahorish does not appear on ordnance survey maps act is simply not true (see the latest ...

The digital heritage resource focuses on the early years of ordnance surveying in Ireland, bringing together maps, texts, archaeological and toponymical material. Researchers at the University of ...

They’re the chaps who put Britain on the map — literally. But in an age of sat-navs and couch potatoes, will there still be a place for the unsung heroes of the Ordnance Survey? Nothing sneaks past ...

Rachel Hewitt, a research fellow at the University of Glamorgan Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, has won the Royal Society of Literature's £10,000 Jerwood Prize for non-fiction. One of four ...

Robert Louis Stevenson, in an essay written near the end of his life on the genesis of Treasure Island, expressed disbelief that there were people who did not care about maps. ‘The names, the shapes ...

A ‘new’ historical map of Coventry, which offers a fascinating insight into the city’s past, is being launched this week and on sale to the public. The map, based on the 1913 Ordnance Survey map of ...

Compare two different-looking Londons, side-by-side on the map. Here's a fun Friday afternoon time-suck: The National Library of Scotland made freely available online 16,865 historic Ordnance Survey ...

In 1824, teams of surveyors began to map Ireland, making it the first place in the world to have detailed ordnance survey maps for an entire country. Now, 200 years later, these 6in to a mile maps, ...

Cartography has produced beautiful works of art – but are they as objective as we think? Alastair Sooke explores the unreliable history of map-making. As a boy, like many others, I used to love ...