Old Hampshire Mapped


Map Scales

Handy Facts, UK
UK distances The following very short list of distances in the UK might help in estimating the scales of UK maps. Remember that these are crow flight distances, not road distances.


towns
etc
place                         NGR (approx)

London                        TQ (51) 325 810
Bristol                       ST (31) 586 727
Truro                         SW (10) 827 448
Manchester                    SJ (33) 836 988
Newcastle                     NZ (45) 243 648
York                          SE (44) 604 522
Edinburgh                     NT (36) 265 741
Inverness                     NH (28) 675 455

(All positions are estimates, I am likely to have used the 
main church as the town centre as the distances are most 
used with old maps)

Duncansby Head                ND (39) 400 735
Gwennap Head                  SW (10) 366 215

Lands End                     SW (10) 340 254
North Foreland                TR (61) 402 700

(These heads are an easily measured tip-to-tip length of
the island)
towns
to
town
place-place                   distance, kilometres (miles)

London-Bristol                174.1 (108.2)
London-Manchester             263.8 (163.9)
London-Edinburgh              534.4 (332.1)
London-Truro                  375.4 (233.3)
London-York                   280.6 (174.4)
London-Newcastle              398.8 (247.8)
Bristol-Manchester            227.5 (141.4)
Manchester-Edinburgh          281.2 (174.7)
Edinburgh-Inverness           181.3 (112.7)

top-toe                       973.5 (604.9)
left-right                    526.4 (327.1)

(Note that 1 mile = 1.6093Km / 1Km = 0.6214 miles)
distances
on map
place-     Lon-  Lon-  Lon-  Bris- Man-  Edin- top-  left-
-place     -Bris -Man  -Edin -Man  -Edin -Inv  -toe  -right
           (millimetres)

scale 1 to

1000000    174   264   534   228   281   181   974   526
1250000    139   211   428   182   225   145   779   421
1500000    116   176   356   152   187   121   649   351
2000000    87    132   267   114   141   91    487   263
2500000    70    106   214   91    112   73    324   211