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[Travel] Interesting maps
- Thread starter Giraffe
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Deportivo Seagull
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For all those of you who go walking around the countryside - I suspect that you use (or used) Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps. Have you ever thought where they get their green dashed lines for footpaths and bridleways from?
They derive from the definitive maps of public paths held by each local highway authority (county councils or unitary authorities mainly). The first ones were drawn up in the early 1950s following the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949. Some have been redone since - but some highway authorities still have the same paper maps as they did 70 years ago.
This is the first definitive map for Westmorland (1953) - showing the area around Elterwater. Roads in red, Footpaths in Purple, Bridleways in Green and RUPPS [Roads Used as Public Paths] in Green Dashes.
Red dashed line is the parish boundary.
I bet some of you have walked some of these paths.
And here's a little known and little used area of 'Lancashire North of the Sands'
They derive from the definitive maps of public paths held by each local highway authority (county councils or unitary authorities mainly). The first ones were drawn up in the early 1950s following the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949. Some have been redone since - but some highway authorities still have the same paper maps as they did 70 years ago.
This is the first definitive map for Westmorland (1953) - showing the area around Elterwater. Roads in red, Footpaths in Purple, Bridleways in Green and RUPPS [Roads Used as Public Paths] in Green Dashes.
Red dashed line is the parish boundary.
I bet some of you have walked some of these paths.
And here's a little known and little used area of 'Lancashire North of the Sands'