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| Maps | Cycling
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Maps for Wales & Welsh Borders:-
Ordnance Survey produce the best maps:-
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Maps Series |
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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) |
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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) |
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Wales & West Midlands
(Sheet 6)
Covers all of Wales and the Welsh Borders, at a scale of
1:250 000 (1 inch to 4 miles, 1 cm to 2.5 km) If you
only want to buy one map, this is the one. You can just
about find your way around, but it does not show much detail.
Costs about £4.99.
Buy
this map (from Amazon.co.uk) |
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Landranger Series |
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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 (only the North Wales edition
is easily available. 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 used
to cover the Midlands, just to the east of the Welsh Borders]
Cycle Route Books from Amazon.co.uk:-
(Some of the following books
are now out of print, but occasionally 2nd hand copies come available
so they are still worth looking out for)
More cycling books and guides to Wales & the
Welsh Borders at...
The
Cycling Sideways Bookstore UK
The
Cycling Sideways Bookstore USA
Bicycle Beano's cycling holiday in Snowdonia,
North Wales, is featured in...
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