QJM Advance Access originally published online on September 12, 2006
QJM 2006 99(10):721-722; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcl102
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Maps and meanings
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If you have ever gone walking in the countryside using Ordnance Survey maps, you will know that they can offer a rather nostalgic picture of the British landscape. Rights of way that are marked clearly on the map tend to peter out into bracken and gorse, or are barred by crops. This is usually the result of decades of disuse, rather than any malice on the part of landowners. Most farmers in my experience seem only too happy to pass the time of day with the occasional rambler, to point out where the