(27) Sheet 27 - Strathpeffer & Invergordon
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| Ordnance Survey One-Inch Popular edition of Scotland - 1921-1930 > (27) Sheet 27 - Strathpeffer & Invergordon |
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| Description | Sheet 27 of the Ordnance Survey One-inch Popular Edition of Scotland. It was issued in 1929 at a scale of 1 inch to 1 mile (1: 63,360) from a survey done between 1926 and 1927. The first Ordnance Survey of this area was done between 1866 and 1875. On the right (east) side, the sheet shows, from north to south, the south east of Cromarty, the Cromarty Firth from Invergordon to Dingwall, with Strathpeffer further west, the Black Isle, and then the western part of the Moray Firth from Fortrose to North Kessock, on the north shore, and the Beauly Firth. in the centre of the sheet and on the left (west) is the area of highland around Loch Morie and Loch Glass, with Loch Garve and Loch Luichart further south and west. On the right, the sheet stretches from Scotsburn Wood, in the north, to Allanfearn, in the south. On the left, the sheet stretches from Loch a Gharbhrain, in the north, to Carn na Cre (1750 feet), in the south. There are two sets of References, the scale statement ‘One Inch to One Statute Mile - 1/63360’, with accompanying scale bar, and two further scale bars of 1 centimetre to 1000 yards and 1 centimetre to 1 kilometre. Contours and fathoms are shown, with accompanying information about measurement |
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| Description | A series of 92 sheets mapping all of Scotland. Ordnance Survey aimed to produce an attractive contoured road map that would be popular with the 'man in the street'. The ‘Popular’ edition was particularly intended for the inter-war generation's leisure hours – cycling, touring or walking through the countryside. |
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