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Maps for Wales & Welsh Borders:-

Ordnance Survey produce the best maps:-

Travel Maps Series
	North and Mid Wales At a scale of 1:175 000 (1 inch to 2.75 miles, 1 cm to 1.75 km) this map is all you really need if you are planning a cycling tour. Costs about £4.49. Buy this map (from Amazon.co.uk)
	South and Mid Wales At a scale of 1:175 000 (1 inch to 2.75 miles, 1 cm to 1.75 km) this map is all you need if planning to tour. Costs about £4.49 Buy this map (from Amazon.co.uk)

Landranger Series
	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 back lanes. 24 maps cover Wales and the Welsh Borders, each costing between £5.50 and £7. Obviously, you don't have to buy that many to find your way around. You could quite happily spend all week cycling on just one or two maps. Buy a map

Cycling Guide Books:-

The Philip's Cycle Tours series is probably the best of the cycletouring route guide books. Each spiral-bound book contains about 24 one-day routes (mostly on-road) based on the O.S. 1:50 000 maps. Be aware that information can change between the time a book is written and the time you read it.

Only the North Wales edition is easily available. Second-hand copies of the other two occasionally are offered on Amazon. "South Wales" (ISBN 0 600 58846 7), covers south, west and mid Wales. "Gloucestershire and Hereford" (ISBN 0 600 58665 0), covers the southern Welsh Borders. [My partner co-wrote the "Around Birmingham" edition which covers the Midlands, just to the east of the Welsh Borders]

For long distance routes see Sustrans' Lon Las Cymru (from North Wales to South Wales) and Celtic Trail (along the south coast of Wales) guides.

Cycle Route Books from Amazon.co.uk:-

24 One-day Routes in North Wales	Around Gloucester and Hereford	Cycling in Wales (Sustrans): 1 (AA Cycling in Britain)
The Celtic Trail Book: National Cycle Route from Fishguard to Chepstow	Celtic Trail East Map - National Cycle Network: Taff Trail and the Valleys Cycle Network - Swansea to Chepstow	Celtic Trail West Map - covering 181 miles of National Cycle Network from Fishguard to Swansea
Lon Las Cymru North Map - Sustrans National Cycle Route: The official route map and information covering 137 Miles (220.5km)	Lon Las Cymru South Map - Sustrans National Cycle Route: The official route map and information covering 118 or 104 miles	Lon Las Cymru Book: The official guide to the National Cycle Network Route 8 and 42 from Holyhead to Cardiff or Chepstow
Snowdonia and Anglesey: Cycling Country Lanes and Byways	Traffic-free Cycle Trails: More than 400 traffic-free routes around Britain	Discovering Pembrokeshire by Bicycle
Not available - might find it in a shop or check Amazon	Cycling without Traffic: Wales	Cyclist's Britain in a Box: Britain's best routes on pocketable cards

More Maps & Guidebooks

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