(11) Sheet 11 - Thurso & Reay
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| Ordnance Survey One-Inch Popular edition of Scotland - 1921-1930 > (11) Sheet 11 - Thurso & Reay |
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| Description | Sheet 11 of the Ordnance Survey One-inch Popular Edition of Scotland. It was issued in 1931 at a scale of 1 inch to 1 mile (1: 63,360) from a survey done between 1927 and 1928. The first Ordnance Survey of this area was done between 1869 and 1872. This sheet shows the north coast of Scotland on the Pentland Firth, from Thurso, in Caithness, in the east, to Strathy Bay, in Sutherland, in the west, with a good stretch of the land to the south. On the right, the sheet stretches from a point in the Pentland Firth just north and east of Thurso, in the north, to Cnoc Fuarain (750 feet), in the south. On the left, in the north, the sheet stretches from a point in the Pentland Firth 58 degrees 41 minutes north and 4 degrees west, to Loch Arichlinie and Corrish Hill, in the south. Reay lies just inland from Sandside Bay in Caithness, about halfway along the coast, and to the west of it, the Halladale River runs south from Malevich Bay. The Pentland Firth runs along the top of the sheet. 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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