Maps, Atlases and Gazetteers

As a library member you can access a range of e-resources by logging in with your library card number and PIN.

You can see large colour maps in the reference books online collections
Credo Reference - the 'Geography' section gives you the 'Collins World Atlas Gazetteer', a full world atlas and gazetteer on your desktop. Take a look too at 'Philip's World Geo-Factbook' for colour maps of world regions
Oxford Reference - find maps and links at the 'Maps and illustrations' section, while at 'Names and places' you can find out about place names
Encyclopedia Britannica Online - there is a 'World Atlas' with maps of countries (political and physical maps), continents (political, physical, land use, peoples, population, precipitation and vegetation maps), regions (Canada, US and Australia) and oceans and seas
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Looking for information about a particular place? You can discover whether there are any notable individuals from British history associated with it by searching the by place name
See the Maps and gazetteers page of WebLinks for street maps, old maps, gazetteers (dictionaries of places) and many other maps sites
Street maps include, for example, Bing Maps, with street maps, aerial maps, 'hybrid' maps and route finder; Streetmap, with street and road atlas maps for mainland Britain (including the ability to search by telephone code); and Google Maps, with street maps, aerial maps and more
At Places in the Local and History section of the Virtual Library there is a small range of digitised local maps

There ia range of atlases and maps held at your local library, including a UK road atlas, a world atlas, local street maps and local Ordnance Survey Landranger and Explorer maps
Also some libraries have large scale local Ordnance Survey maps, including 1:1,250 scale maps of the local town and OS first edition mapping of the county
There are also Ordnance Survey maps covering the whole country that can be borrowed
Search the Library Catalogue to discover what is at your local library

Page last updated: 3rd December 2013