Maps, Atlases and Gazetteers

• For street maps, old maps, gazetteers (dictionaries of places) and many other maps sites see the Gateway to the Internet > Maps and gazetteers
• You can see large colour maps in the Reference books online collections -

the Credo Reference 'Geography' section gives you the 'Collins world atlas gazetteer', a full world atlas and gazetteer on your desktop. Take a look too at 'Philip's world geo-factbook' for colour maps of world regions

at Oxford Reference Online, you will find maps and links at the 'Maps and illustrations' section, while at 'Names and places' you can find out about place names

in Gale Virtual Reference Library, the 'Nation and world' section includes 'Geo-Data: the world geographical encyclopedia', which gives, for each country, a physical relief map in pdf form

• At Encyclopedia Britannica online there is a 'World atlas' with maps of countries (political and physical maps), continents (political, physical, land use, peoples, population, precipitation and vegetation maps), regions (Canada, US and Australia) and oceans and seas
• For local maps information, see You and Your Community (YoYo)
• At Local and family history > Places there is a small range of digitised local maps
• Looking for information about a particular place? You can discover whether there are any notable individuals from British history associated with it by searching the Oxford dictionary of national biography by place name
• Maps, atlases and gazetteers at Bedfordshire libraries
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