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    If vintage maps appeal, Bartholomew's New Reduced Survey at half-inch to the mile for cyclists and tourists are superb.
    Scotland is devided up into a series of 29 sheets, and are available as paper mounted on cloth - and the detail is excellent.

    These date from about 100 years ago, and versions remained in print until fairly recently. The pre-war issue show all kinds of things that no longer exist - the now-gone railways, steamer routes, etc - are coloured to show contours, and are a reasonable size to frame and hang on the wall.

    The Ordnance Survey Quarter Inch fifth series from the 1970s are larger sheets, and show greater area, and are equally decorative. Sheet 5 of the Eastern Highlands covers an area from the Firth of Tay to the Cromarty Firth, and from Fort Augustus to the east coast, so includes the Grampians, Speyside, Royal Deeside, etc. Eight maps in this series covers the whole of Scotland and the Islands.

    For the most up-to-date maps for motoring or walking, any of the current Road Map, Landranger or Explorer series of increasing scale are the best you can get. You can use the OS website to customise maps in various ways - https://shop.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/maps/ - including placing a significant site (your own home, for example) at the centre of the map you have printed.

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    Not sure if this is too big for your needs (36" x 45"): https://www.mapmarketing.com/product...nated-wall-map

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    If you want something a little different and funny, check out ST&Gs marvellous map of great British place names.

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    Agree, the Ordnance Survey maps are great. I bought a 2007 edition of Great Britain labeled, "For National Route Planning."
    Ol' Macdonald himself, a proud son of Skye and Cape Breton Island
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    Absolutely the best source for historical maps - National Library of Scotland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troglodyte View Post

    The Ordnance Survey Quarter Inch fifth series from the 1970s are larger sheets, and show greater area, and are equally decorative.
    This is the map my wife and I used on our first Scotland trip, in the 1980s.

    Superb and beautiful map which got us around the Highlands and Islands (as well as everywhere else) quite well.

    BTW my wife has been a professional cartographer for over 30 years now. She started when maps were still hand-drawn and now works for a cartographic software developer.
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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