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OS Quarter Inch Wales and the Marches

New on SABRE Maps are this collection of all five out-of-copyright editions of the Ordnance Survey Quarter Inch Special Sheet of Wales and the Marches

Whilst being part of the Fifth Series, these maps feature some different and really beautiful depictions of the Welsh mountains to the standard sheets, as well of course as all the updates from the period including roads and railways.

They can be found on the OS Quarter Inch section of SABRE Maps, right at the bottom of the list on their own layers from 1959, 1962, 1963, 1967 and 1971.

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Image taken from the B9065 SABRE Wiki page

B9065

Route The B9065 is possibly the shortest B-road in Orkney, running from the Rousay Ferry Pier to the B9064 island loop road at Trumland: barely a third of a mile long. Starting from the pier, it climbs up through the village, passing the ferry waiting area, with a small museum of sorts, and the island's only (?) pub, which sits just above the slipway. It then sweeps round to the left at a triangular...

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Connel Bridge and Falls of Lora by Glen

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Brynmawr Gateway Bridge and A465 section 2 dual carriageway newly completed after seven years, December 2021 by Jeremai

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Ordnance Survey Ten-Mile Road Map of Great Britain cover, 1956 edition by Steven

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Covers of three Bartholomew's Pocket Plans: Edinburgh and Suburbs, Glasgow, and Glasgow and Suburbs. Various scales, dates unknown by Halmyre

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Lay-by on the A35 by Marilyn Peddle

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