As a wing of the military, the Ordnance Survey had extraordinary powers. The Surveyors’ Act of 1841 allowed it to trudge, clamber, squelch, measure and interrogate wherever necessary. The first ...

New weather maps suggest snow could be on the way for much of Britain, with forecasts indicating a huge 14-day spell with 336 hours of non-stop snowfall from midnight on Wednesday, February 11, ...

The Council on Geostrategy has just published Britain’s world: The strategy of security in twelve geopolitical maps, a geopolitical atlas designed to complement the UK’s National Security Strategy and ...

The majority of the country is forecast to be affected.

On June 23, 2016, exactly 10 years ago, a close referendum saw just over half of Britons vote to leave the European Union (EU) after years of campaigning that Britain would be better off outside the ...

Reflecting worries that the French might invade, the first OS maps cover the mouth of the river Thames. This is the naval route to London and a highly vulnerable part of the country. The sheets that ...

Met Office maps show 22 areas facing rain on Sunday as Britain is split in two, with downpours sweeping across the north while southern parts of the country bask in hot and largely dry conditions.