![]() ![]() Your support helps us to maintain our independence and impartiality and is genuinely very much appreciated. We don’t receive a penny of public funding and rely on a network of local contributors and volunteers. It takes a lot of work, and quite a bit of money, to keep Visit Cumbria’s 1,500+ free information pages online and updated. If you have found Visit Cumbria’s Lake District Maps page useful please help to support us by booking your accommodation though our pages. Wikipedia – National Grid reference System. ![]() There is a Historical Map and Guide at the scale of two and a half inches to the mile of ‘Hadrian’s Wall’. 324 – Liddesdale & Kershope Forest for the very top of Cumbria – Bewcastle etc.315 – Carlisle, Brampton, Longtown and Gretna Green.O元3 – St Bees Head to Keld – Coast to Coast Walk.OL2 – The Yorkshire Dales Southern and Western area.OL19 – The Howgill Fells and Upper Eden Valley.O元1 – North Pennines, Teasdale and Weardale.OL7 – The English Lakes South Eastern area, Windermere, Kendal and Silverdale.OL6 – The English Lakes South Western area, Coniston, Ulverston and Barrow.OL5 – The English Lakes North Eastern area, Penrith, Patterdale and Caldbeck.OL4 – The English Lakes North Western area, Keswick, Cockermouth and Wigton.The Touring Map and Guide no 3 covers the Lake District at a scale of one inch to the mile and also contains much useful tourist information, including a Wordsworth trail. Ordnance Survey Lake District Touring Map 96 – Barrow-in-Furness and South Lakeland area.90 – Penrith, Keswick and Ambleside area.89 – West Cumbria, Cockermouth and Wast Water.For example, you may be at grid reference 509582 in southwest Scotland. This means that there is no doubt or confusion about your location. When you quote your grid reference you should put the two letter prefix of the area you are in before the numbers. 87 – Hexham, Haltwhistle and surrounding area map fall into different squares of the National Grid.86 – Haltwhistle and Brampton, Bewcastle and Alston.The Ordnance Survey Landranger series of 1:50000 scale (approx one inch to the mile) maps (purple) cover the whole country, and the following cover the county of Cumbria. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small commission. Visit Cumbria is supported by its audience. The two-letter code on the Ordnance Survey (O.S.) map you are using forms the first part. The three figure numbers give a position to an accuracy of one tenth of a kilometre. British grid references consist of two letters and two to ten numbers. The first 3 figures relate to numbers across the top and bottom of the map, and the second set to numbers down the sides, which show one kilometre squares. Each grid reference consists of a two letter code representing a 100 km square area, and two sets of 3 figure numbers. Grid references are used for the locations of many places other than within towns. Ordnance Survey Maps for Cumbria and the Lake District : The counties surrounding Cumbria are shown in the map below. A small part of the Yorkshire Dales National park is now in Cumbria – Dentdale and Garsdale, and the towns/villages – Sedbergh, Dent and Garsdale. The green areas represent the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks. ![]()
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