Bartholomew's "Half Inch to the Mile Maps" of Scotland, 1899-1905
These clear and attractive maps at the half-inch to the mile scale (1:126,720), were popular with cyclists and tourists, and became Bartholomew's flagship series. The half-inch maps were distinctive for using different layers of colour to represent landscape relief, with a subtle and innovative gradation of colour bands used to show land at different heights. The 'New Series' maps shown on this page were developed in the 1890s out of Bartholomew's earlier Reduced Ordnance Maps of Scotland, 1875-1891.
- View the maps with a graphic index of Scotland
- View seamless layer of Bartholomew Half-Inch mapping, on a modern satellite image base
We hold two sets of this series, the first from our Bartholomew Archive, and the second from our Newman collection.
This initial set of sheets is from our Bartholomew Archive and are held as flat sheets:
This second set of sheets is at the shelfmark: Newman.349. These maps have been dissected and folded: