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The best all round maps for discovering Cheshire are those published by the Ordnance Survey. Walkers, cyclists and riders will find the extra detail on the OS Explorer maps (1:25,000 scale or about 2 ½ inches to 1 mile) invaluable.
OS Landranger Maps
Almost all of Cheshire is covered by three maps. These come in silver and magenta covers and each one covers an area of 40 km x 40 km (about 25 miles by 25 miles). They are widely available from bookshops and other outlets.
- 109 Manchester
- 117 Chester & Wrexham / Caer a Wrecsam
- 118 Stoke on Trent & Macclesfield
Small parts of the County are covered by sheets 108 Liverpool, 119 Buxton & Matlock and 127 Stafford & Telford
OS Explorer Maps
Almost all of Cheshire can be covered by seven 'Explorer' maps. These come in a range of different formats to give the best coverage of an area. All can be easily identified by their orange covers. Many are double-sided - denoted by D in the list below - and give good value for money. The new-look sheets show areas of registered common land, open country and other access land by means of a yellow tint edged in orange. These sheets have distinctive silver and orange covers. All sheets show the entire public rights of way network, together with selected permissive paths.
- 257 Crewe & Nantwich -( D)
- 266 Wirral & Chester - (D)
- 267 Northwich & Delamere Forest
- 268 Wilmslow, Macclesfield & Congleton - (D)
- 276 Bolton, Wigan & Warrington
- OL1 Dark Peak - (D)
- OL24 White Peak - (D)
Small parts of the County are covered by Explorers 243 Market Drayton and 256 Wrexham / Wrecsam & Llangollen. Three other sheets overlap the edges of those listed above, covering small parts of the county. You will not need these if you already have the sheets listed above.
- 258 Stoke on Trent
- 275 Liverpool
- 277 Manchester & Salford
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Rights of way information shown on Ordnance Survey maps is supplied by local authorities from their definitive maps and from legal orders made which alter path details. Copies of the definitive map are not available for sale, but the map can be inspected at council offices and other locations.
All of the OS Explorer sheets now carry additional 'access land' information. These enable the walker to make the most of the opportunities afforded by open country, registered common land and other forms of land dedicated for public access.
You can generally rely on the OS maps to be accurate although they can never be fully up to date and errors and omissions may occur.
Visit the Ordnance Survey website to find out more about the maps you need, including purchase details.
There are other map publishers of course but none are known currently to publish detailed walking, cycling or riding maps for the whole county. |
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