London A-Z Street Atlas

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So it’s no surprise to the find a large section included in the book on the London County Council street name changes. The book paper has been coloured to suggest age so it is slightly yellowed on some pages and ‘dirty’ on the cover. The map index contains over 300,000 entries with nearly 100,000 streets, over 200,000 postcodes, plus thousands of places of interest, hospitals and rail stations.

This coloured street map of London covers a six mile radius from Charing Cross and is ideal for people on the Green Badge Knowledge. It is also odor-free making it safe for all rooms in the home and commercial interiors where the initial solvent smell would be an issue such as schools, restaurants, cafes and offices. At around the age of 29, Pearsall directed some draughtsmen to begin drawing up this new type of street map while she compiled much of the information necessary to update the maps.

This revealed that, on all their maps, A–Z print a non-existent trap street so that they can tell if a map has been illegally copied from theirs, a technique used by several publishers of reference works (see fictitious entry). Covering an extensive area, including Bristol, Swindon, Reading, Slough, Guildford, Littlehampton, Portsmouth, Isle of Wight, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Newport, Weymouth, Sidmouth, Taunton and Weston-Super-Mare. Cotswolds and Chilterns Visitors’ Map from Geographers’ A-Z Map Company, covering at 1:158,400 (1” to 2. A-Z Premier Map of London at 1:21,477, from Geographers' A-Z Map Company, covering a six mile radius from Charing Cross in central London and extending to Muswell Hill to the north, London City Airport to the east, Crystal Palace to the south and Wembley to the west.

With our standard personalisation you are able to see a preview of the title and subtitle you choose on the product page. There is also a separate listing of National Rail, Docklands Light Railway, London Overground and London Underground Stations, and a list of Hospitals and Hospices covered by this map. PLEASE NOTE - Due to product dimensions flat maps need to be rolled and posted out in Postal Tubes, if you have or are about to purchased other products with this item they well be posted out separately. Anita hits on a happy side-effect of paper maps: "I love a real map and the memories of all the places I have been.Lists of West End cinemas, theatres, concert halls, opera and ballet houses, along with their addresses and nearest station and a section about ticket purchases. Suzanne likes the bigger scale of the printed page: "I still have mine and use it regularly as you can see a wide area at a glance, something impossible on a small screen. Raster format is a digital format that uses pixels (like a photograph) and consists of a flat single layered image. For this option, your map will be supplied laminated, mounted on a metal backing and framed in a stylish brushed aluminium frame, with a 16mm edging.

The index is contained within a booklet that is attached to the cover and lists streets, selected flats, walkways and places of interest, junction, place and area names.It contains the maps which Mrs Pearsall first published including bus, trolleybus and tram routes, plus the streets of London as they were just before the World War II. Both the congestion charging zone boundary and the low emission zone boundary are included on this mapping which also features safety camera locations with their maximum speed limit. Geographers’ Map Company was founded in 1936 by Phyllis Pearsall MBE (1906-1996) who, encouraged by her father Alexander Gross, took on the ambitious task of publishing up-to-date street mapping of London.