Still standing proud, if slightly neglected, are 82 stone monoliths along the route of a road that marked the birth of modern ...

Porth Ceiriad is one of the most popular beaches in north Wales - but it's not easy to find and is often described as a ...

The surf at Porth Ceiriad is reputed to be the best on the Llŷn Peninsula. Whilst quite sheltered and benign in the summer, ...

running from Abbey to Zincography – the latter a method of 19th-century printing by the Ordnance Survey for producing maps whereby the image was drawn on and printed from a zinc plate.

We often will turn to the first edition Ordnance Survey maps to explore the townlands of our ancestors (perhaps where our families still live today), or to figure out the location of a particular ...

Walter E. Elliot, Minister of Agriculture, stated that “no decision has been taken to introduce the metre as a unit of measurement in Ordnance Survey maps. The question is among those to be ...

The OS200-Digitally Re-mapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage project has compiled historic maps, texts, archaeological and toponymical material, including local customs, place names and ...

THE new edition of the one-inch and quarter-inch Ordnance Survey maps is described, with specimen sheets, by Lt,-Col. W. J. Johnston in the Geographical Journal for March (vol. lv., No. 3).

Ordnance Survey, which is known for paper maps but has undergone a digital transformation in recent years, made the biggest update to its National Geographic Database this week since 2020.

Ordnance Survey and the Coal Authority have come together to plot the potential supply and demand of heat from water in disused coal mines throughout Great Britain. An extract from the interactive map ...

In short, maps offer the freedom to get lost and then find your way again. This year the Ordnance Survey in Ireland is commemorating the bicentenary of its founding in 1824. Prior to partition ...

Utilising the first (circa 1830) detailed Ordnance Survey maps of Northern Ireland’s coast and intervening mapping surveys, vertical aerial photographs (from the 1950’s to present day) as well as a ...