Ordnance Survey facts for kids

Grid square TF from the Ordnance Survey National Grid, shown at a scale of 1:250,000. The map shows the Wash and the North Sea, as well as places within the counties of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.

The Ordnance Survey (OS) is an organisation that creates maps of Great Britain. The OS head office is in Southampton in England. They are an agency of the United Kingdom government.

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Part of an Ordnance Survey map, at the scale of one inch to the mile, from a New Popular Edition map published in 1946
Roy Military Survey of Scotland 1747–1755, Mansewood.
The original draftsman's drawings for the area around St Columb Major in Cornwall, made in 1810
Detail from 1901 Ordnance Survey map of the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda (showing St. George's Town and St. George's Garrison), compiled from surveys carried out between 1897 and 1899 by Lieutenant Arthur Johnson Savage, Royal Engineers.
The former headquarters of the Ordnance Survey in London Road, Southampton (2005)
The cover of the 5th series OS map Chelmsford and Southend sheet 108. Art by Ellis Martin
Front cover of a one-inch to the mile New Popular Edition, from 1945
Detailed scan of a complete 7th series sheet
Former Ordnance Survey headquarters in Maybush, Southampton, used from 1969 until 2011
Headquarters in Adanac Park opened in 2011
Ordnance Survey maps on sale

Ordnance Survey facts for kids

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