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Cycling Maps & Guides
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Maps of Wales & Welsh Borders:-
Ordnance Survey produce the best maps.
- Travelmaster Series, sheet 6, "Wales & West
Midlands". If you only want to buy one map which
covers all of Wales and the Welsh Borders, this is the one to
get. At a scale of 1:250 000 (1 inch to 4 miles, 1 cm to
2.5 km) you can just about find your way around, but does not
show much detail.
- Landranger Series. Covers Wales and the Welsh
Borders in 24 maps (each costing £5.99). At a scale of
1:50 000 (1.25 inches to 1 mile, 2 cm to 1 km) these maps
show much more detail, and are the ones to get if you really
want to explore the back lanes.
Guide Books:-
There are lots of cycletouring route guide books available.
The Ordnance Survey Cycle Tours series is probably the best.
Each spiral-bound book, costing £9.99, contains about 24
one-day routes (mainly on-road) based on the O.S. 1:50 000
maps. "North Wales and the Marches" (ISBN 0 600 59007
0), covers north Wales plus the northern Welsh Borders ('Marches'
is another name for the Welsh Borders). "South, West and
Mid-Wales" (ISBN 0 600 58846 7), covers southern Wales.
"Gloucestershire and Hereford & Worcester" (ISBN
0 600 58665 0), covers the southern Welsh Borders. Be aware
that information can change between the time a book is written
and the time you read it. [My partner co-wrote the "Around
Birmingham" edition (ISBN 0 600 58623 5) which covers the
Midlands, just to the east of the Welsh Borders]
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Bicycle Beano's cycling
holiday in Snowdonia, North Wales, is featured in...
A Place to
Cycle
– Amazing rides from around the world
by Rob Penn, published by Conran Octopus
"the ultimate guide to the world's top 25 cycling
holidays" Read
an extract |
Where To Buy Maps & Guide Books:-
- Cyclist's
Touring Club - The CTC's shop sells mail order cycletouring
guide books, OS maps, and self-guided routes. E-mail: shop@ctc.org.uk.
- Ordnance
Survey - Buy their maps online.
- Maps
Worldwide - Mail order Ordnance Survey maps and cycling
guides (based in UK).
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