Maps, Atlases and Gazetteers
A-Z how to find information
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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
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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)
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At
Local and family history > Places
there is a small range of digitised
local maps
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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
- Library catalogue
- Contact
us
Bedfordshire
libraries
contact details and opening times
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