Product Description

This is the AA's best-selling road mapping, presented in an A3 format, road atlas providing super clear mapping at a giant scale of 1.5 miles to 1 inch, more detail but easier to read. Each page has been titled with its geographical location so you can turn to the page you need more easily. Static speed camera locations are pinpointed on the mapping, with MPH speed limits shown. The extended London Congestion Charging Zone is shown, plus there are 3 pages of 'jam Busting' maps for 2007. More than 30 classes of places to visit are included from puffing steam railways and elegant castles to hair-raising theme parks and tranquil gardens. Plus there are large scale city, town and port plans, and more than 70,000 map names indexed, more than any other Britain road atlas. Sunny weather hotspots, accident black spots and every motorway junction and slip road is clearly shown, plus, LPG and 24-hour petrol stations, car parks, one-way streets and places of tourist interest.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #440732 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Customer Reviews

Review of AA Close-up Britain (A3 Format)
This is the most detailed road atlas available of the whole of Britain available and confusingly is much more detailed than their much smaller 'Superscale Atlas of Great Britain!' It is available in two formats, A3 and A4, both paperback but the latter having more pages. It would have been nice if one of them, possibly this A3 format, had been published as a cloth bound library version with stitched binding and thicker paper, and the maps are certainly worth the extra money. As it is, the two paperback versions are cumbersome for car use, and will soon need replacing if used regularly.

This A3 version competes directly with the Philip's Navigator Atlas, also at 1.5 miles to 1 inch or 1:100,000. Both atlases reduce the scale for Northern Scotland, but the AA Atlas reduces it less, and is overall more detailed than the Philip's Navigator. However, as I now need reading glasses, I find the Philip's Atlas easier to read, and the paper is slightly thicker. Straingely, the map of the Isle of man is at a smaller scale and is less detailed.

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Andrew Taylor

Worsley, Manchester

Excellent for cycling
Brilliant map for cycle route planning with all the cyle routes shown clearly. I have the A3 version which is huge and not feasible to take with you. So either copy it to another map or cut the pages out and take what you need.I agree with the previous review it is cumbersome to drive with but fantastic detail.