OS Ten Mile Road Map, 1935
SABRE Maps has the largest freely available online collection of what is often referred to as Ordnance Survey Ten Mile Road Maps (even if the pre-war ones are actually called "Road Map of Great Britain")
We're delighted to add to this collection by bringing you the only sheet published in 1935, covering Scotland and northernmost England and with only 800 of this sheet being published 90 years ago not many have survived.
Canderwater Interchange
The former Canderwater Interchange, also known as Draffan Interchange (and often mis-spelt Draffen in lists of motorways in Scotland published by the government in the 1960s, 70s and 80s) was the southern terminus of the M74 for the first 20 years of that motorway's existence. It also had a 3-year prehistory as a junction on the A74. It was located between the present junctions 8 and 9. It opened...
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