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Modern explorer Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain.

Modern explorer Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain in a series of geographical challenges through some of today's wildest landscapes.

Map Man: Series 1

Nicholas Crane

Richard Klein

Map Man: Series 1: Episode 8: Martin Hotine's Ordnance Survey (1935-1950)

Episode 8

Episode 8: Martin Hotine's Ordnance Survey (1935-1950)

Series 1

Martin Hotine's Ordnance Survey (1935-1950)

BBC Two - Map Man, Series 1, Martin Hotine's Ordnance Survey (1935-1950)

Nicholas Crane uses an Ordnance Survey map to lead him safely through the Highlands.

Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed Britain. A modern OS map helps him through some wild Highland territory.

Modern explorer Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain in a series of geographical challenges. He uses a modern OS map to lead him safely through some of the wildest Highland landscapes, exploing the methods of the original surveyors back in the 1930s. He discovers how hard they worked, struggling up mountains with heavy surveying equipment, and attempts his own triangulation survey at night.

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