Philips Street Atlases

Philips started producing a range of Street Maps, covering whole counties at a time, in the mid 1990s. The main aim seems to have been to try and beat market leader A-Z at their own game, by using the latest OS data and covering every town and village, not just the major urban areas. Of course, A-Z fought back, but with Philips now covering all of England, Wales and Northern Ireland and most of Scotland they are still one step ahead in many peoples eyes.

The first books were published in black & white, but soon colour was introduced. The Maps within the books are produced at three different scales, depending on the density of the roads. Most books have a base scale of either 2.5/2.66 miles to the inch (Blue pages) or 1/1.33 miles to the inch (Green pages). Urban areas are then shown in Blue pages, with dense street patterns in city centres shown on Red pages at approx 5 inches to the mile. In the larger format books these scales are all bigger. Scales indicated below are for Blue pages in the smallest format.

Over the years, the books have been produced in thinner formats than the full county books, covering specific urban areas. Some of these are still available, others long since out of print. Additionally, 3 counties were originally split in two, namely Essex (East/west), Hampshire (North/south) and Kent (East/west). All three have since been published in a single volume, although the split books have also been reprinted in recent years.

Year From	Year To	Map Name	Scale	Notes
1994	Present	East Sussex	from
1994	Present	Nottighamshire	from	Also titled Notts
1995	Present	Bristol & Avon	from 1:25344	renamed Bristol & Bath after 'death' of Avon
1995	Present	Cardiff, Swansea and the Valleys	from	formerly entitled Cardiff, Swansea and Glamorgan
1995	Present	Edinburgh & East Central Scotland	from	Covers Lothians, South Fife, Stirling & Falkirk
1995	Present	Glasgow & West Central Scotland	from	Covers Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Dunbartonshire, Stirling, North Lanarkshire & Ayrshire Coast towns
1997	Present	Lancashire	from 1:23810	includes Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool & part of Sefton
1998		Northwich, Winsford, Middlewich	from
1998		Warrington, Widnes, Runcorn	from
1998		Stafford, Stone, Uttoxeter	from
1998		Cannock, Lichfield, Rugeley	from
1998		Peak District Towns	from
2001	Present	Gloucestershire and Bristol	from 1:25344	includes South Gloucestershire & Bristol; formerly entitled Gloucestershire
2002	Present	Dorset	from 1:25344
2002	Present	Somerset	from 1:25344	includes Bath & NE / North Somerset
2002	Present	Wiltshire & Swindon	from1:25344
2003	Present	Cornwall and Plymouth	from 1:25344	Scilly Isles shown at 5.66 miles to the inch; formerly entitled Cornwall
2003	Present	Devon and Plymouth	from 1:25344	formerly entitled Devon
2003	Present	Herefordshire Monmouthshire	from 1:23810	Does not include all of historic Monmouthshire
2003	Present	Norfolk	from 1:25344
2003	Present	Suffolk	from 1:23810
2004	Present	Aberdeenshire	from 1:23810	Does not cover rural west of county
2004	Present	Cumbria	from
2004	Present	Fife & Tayside	from 1:23810	Does not cover NW Perthshire / NW Angus
2004	Present	Inverness & Moray	from 1:23810	The 'urban' belt around the Moray Firth and some outlying areas.
2006	Present	Dumfries & Galloway	from 1:23810
	Present	Lanarkshire	from
	Present	Ayrshire	from	includes full coverage of Arran
	Present	Scottish Borders	from
	Present	Northumberland	from
	Present	Newcastle Tyne and Wear	from	Also titled Tyne and Wear
	Present	Newcastle and Gateshead	from
	Present	Sunderland	from
	Present	County Durham and Teeside	from
	Present	North Yorkshire	from
	Present	York	from
	Present	East Yorkshire, Northern Lincolnshire	from	Also titled East Riding, Northern Lincs
	Present	Hull	from
	Present	South Yorks	from
	Present	Sheffield and Rotherham	from
	Present	West Yorkshire	from	Also titled West Yorks
	Present	Bradford	from
	Present	Huddersfield	from
	Present	Lancashire	from
	Present	Greater Manchester	from
	Present	Liverpool and Merseyside	from
	Present	Birkenhead and Wirral	from
	Present	Cheshire	from
	Present	Derbyshire	from
	Present	Derby	from
	Present	Lincolnshire	from
	Present	Lincoln	from
	Present	Norwich	from
	Present	Shropshire and Telford	from	formerly Shropshire
	Present	Staffordshire	from	Also titled Staffs
	Present	Stoke on Trent	from
	Present	Birmingham and West Midlands	from
	Present	Wolverhampton	from
	Present	Coventry	from
	Present	Leicestershire and Rutland	from
	Present	Leicester and Loughborough	from
	Present	Northamptonshire	from
	Present	Northampton	from
	Present	Cambridgeshire and Peterborough	from
	Present	Essex	from	Replaced North Essex and South Essex
	Present	Hertfordfshire	from	Also titled Herts
	Present	Bedfordshire and Luton	from
	Present	Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes	from	Also titled Bucks
	Present	Oxfordshire	from
	Present	Warwickshire and Coventry	from
	Present	Worcestershire	from
	Present	Plymouth	from
	Present	Bournemouth	from
	Present	Hampshire	from	replaced North Hampshire and South Hampshire; includes Bournemouth and Poole
	Present	Southampton	from
	Present	Isle of Wight	from
	Present	Berkshire	from
	Present	Surrey	from
	Present	West Sussex	from
	Present	Kent	from	replaced West Kent and East Kent
	Present	Maidstone	from
	Present	London	from
	Present	Carmarthneshire, Pembrokeshire, Swansea	from
	Present	Swansea	from
	Present	Powys	from
	Present	Ceredigion, South Gwynedd	from
	Present	Anglesey Conwy Gwynedd	from
	Present	Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham	from
	Present	Armagh and Down	from	Also entitled Co Armagh, Co Down
	Present	Belfast	from
	Present	Co Tyrone, Co Fermanagh	from
	Present	Antrim and Londonderry	from