Marvellous Maps: Our changing world in 40 amazing maps

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BRITAIN’S TOP 50: Britain’s top-of-the-trees wildlife highlights and ecocentric attractions - plus a seriously sustainable journey that links them all up. HISTORY BROUGHT TO LIFE Get up close and historical with 250 of Britain’s most mesmerising museums, events, and festivals FOOD, FESTIVALS & EVENTS Britain’s top sports, music and other festivals and events, with a side helping of great destination pubs / cafes and favourite local dishes The Craftily Conjured Great British Folklore and Superstition Map is a full-colour, two-sided map folding out to 100 cm x 89 cm, featuring: Very pleased with mine - good quality maps and very entertaining. Good prompt and courteous service”

The Marvellous Map of Great British Place Names could be the perfect Christmas present sure to keep the family entertained and merry.” — The Daily Mail THINGS TO KNOW Priceless information and inspiration to help you have a great time, save money and enjoy unforgettable adventures The Intrepidly Time-Travelling Great British History Map is a full-colour, two-sided map folding out to 100 cm x 89 cm, featuring: Just about the greatest thing I’ve had dropped through my letterbox this year... brilliantly designed.” — Adventure Travel magazine End Product Details These maps are a delight to those of us who still love unfolding paper concertinas and finding what we're looking for. They could be a brilliant teaching resource for whole-class travels, adventures and learning about mapping/geography/UK/history ... and so much more”

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A visit to Dylan Thomas's “ugly lovely town” should take in his childhood home (now a museum) and the Kardomah Cafe (relocated), where Swansea's most famous son and his pals met to talk about "music and poetry and painting and politics, Einstein and Epstein, Stravinsky and Greta Garbo, death and religion, Picasso and girls." Swansea also gave us Amy Dillwyn, whose novel The Rebecca Rioter was inspired by the true story of Welsh protesters dressed as women in the 1840s, and Joe Dunthorne, whose debut novel Submarine is set in Swansea. His second, Wild Abandon, is set in the beautiful Gower peninsula, where Thomas once got stranded overnight, on the Worm's Head. Eek. Stratford-upon-avon TROUBLE & TRAGEDY Battlegrounds, plots, riots, rebellions and scenes of death, disaster, crime and punishment

Keen to give the gift of a Marvellous Map, but not sure which one? Our virtual gift card is the perfect solution! Britain really is a brilliant place for travel, adventure and unique discoveries. Where else in the world could you find, in such a small space, so much beautiful scenery, so much cultural intrigue and oddity... and so many truly ridiculous place names? TRAILS THROUGH TIME Get some adventure inspiration with a broch-load of historical and history-inspired route

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I love paper maps and always plan our road trips with them. These look amazing for fascinating ideas too”. End Product Details Stuart MacBride's Aberdeen-set Logan McRae series and Claire MacLeary's local PIs Harcus and Laird fly the flag for the local subgenre of 'Tartan Noir', celebrated at the annual Granite Noir festival. Beyond the granite city, the village of Arbuthnott was the inspiration for Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song, a frequent 'best Scottish novel' poll-topper, and on the coast, Slains Castle helped inspire Bram Stoker's Dracula. Moving inland, another key Aberdonian literary figure is Nan Shepherd, whose love for the Cairngorms shines through The Living Mountain, continually inspiring visitors to Britain's biggest national park. Hay-on-Wye

CULTURE & HERITAGE The top historical and folklore-y places, alongside music, film & TV and literature locations and a suitable smattering of funny place names Perfect for map lovers, adventurers and, well, anyone! Britain’s funny, rude and delightfully odd place names, from the Twatts of northern Scotland to the Bottoms of England, via the fabled Pants of Wales, are not only bewildering, but also truly world-class. Featuring over 2,000 genuine locations, this map is a comprehensive record of Britain’s funny, rude and delightfully odd place names, to be discovered, celebrated and chortled over. These map skills lesson plans are perfect for teaching your class or child about this most important of life skills. Whether you'd like to teach a one-off lesson or a whole unit on the topic, you'll find everything you need in this fantastic collection of teacher-made resources. What's more, everything you'll find here is designed in accordance with the National Curriculum aims for geography, so that you can be sure you're teaching only the relevant content to your class or child. What do these map skills lesson plans contain?folded, full-colour thematic maps of Great Britain, chosen by the customer from our range of 8. Each map folds out to 100 cm x 89 cm (but could expand your horizons considerably further). Size when folded - 23 cm x 13 cm The Eagerly Beavered Great British Wildlife & Environment Map is a full-colour, two-sided map folding out to 100 cm x 89 cm, featuring: Awfully, spifflingly British. These folks take those many things that make Britain, British; our ludicrously mis named villages, our Quirky quirks, our amusing byways and sideways view of the world, and put them onto maps. Such an amusing present or a fun poster for your library (...)” So I was drinking a cup of tea while reading the Telegraph, because I am nothing if not a gigantic cliché of Britishness, when I came across what is to be the hottest gift for Christmas in the UK…” — Right This Minute MYSTERIES & MAGIC: Over 300 places wreathed in tales of witchcraft, devilry, superstition and ancient mystery.

Britain’s funny, rude and delightfully odd place names are not only bewildering, but also truly world-class. From Slap Bottom (Hampshire) to Twatt (Shetland, and there’s one in Orkney too) via Belchford (Lincolnshire) and The Devil’s Arse (Derbyshire), the Marvellous Map of Great British Place Names is a comprehensive record of Britain’s ridiculous place names, to be discovered, celebrated and chortled over. Geography at its finest.Go to Marvellous Maps. Satisfaction guaranteed!” — Barry Glendenning, Guardian Football Weekly Podcast ECO ATTRACTIONS: Over 150 clean green days out, from nature-nurturing wildlife and conservation centres to museums and family attractions. Maps aren’t typically meant to make you laugh, but ST&G’s Marvellous Map of Great British Place Names, which features over 2,000 of Britain's funniest, rudest and oddest place names, is guaranteed to cause childish giggling.. and maybe even a little dribbling.