England & Wales Complete 1940s Map

A single GIS ready ECW format map image containing the whole of England & Wales from the late 1940s The image is 167,750 pixels high by 144,750 wide with each pixel covering about 4.0 metres on the ground. Rectified to fit the National Grid.

This image is from the Ordnance Survey New Popular Edition of the 1 inch to 1 mile (1:63,360) mapping issued in the late 1940s. This is the pre-cursor to the OS 1:50,000 maps used today.