Parts of the UK is set to see rain and cooler temperatures this week after Britain faced a third heatwave this year.

Almost eight million people will be subject to a hosepipe ban by next week after Thames Water announced the third hosepipe ...

A CIRCULAR from the Ministry of Town and Country Planning directs attention to a new series of maps of Great Britain constructed to illustrate various aspects of national life and resources. The ...

11. Britain's foremost cartographer of the time, John Carey, produced the topographical map on which he superimposed Smith's strata. 12. Publication of the map was funded by subscriptions. The map was ...

THE initiation of an entirely new ordnance map series on a scale of 1: 25,000, or about 2 ½ inches to the mile, was one of the chief recommendations of a departmental committee set up in 1935. It ...

The French may never have invaded but the maps helped Britain to collect tax, manage agriculture and plan infrastructure. As the country has changed, so have its uses for maps.

The Midlands of England—which TIME maps on the following two pages—mean the same thing to Britain that Pennsylvania, New Jersey and lower New England mean to the U. S.