Unruly Folded Sheets
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- The author recalls childhood Ordnance Survey maps with orange covers, one-inch-to-the-mile scale, and outdated details like defunct railways.
- Later upgrades to 1:50,000 magenta-covered maps were still challenging due to missing field boundaries at that scale.
- The author eventually adopted 1:25,000 yellow-covered maps for detailed navigation, later complementing them with digital versions.
- The text references Will Millard's book 'Mapping Britain' about the Ordnance Survey archives.