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Seasonal breaks
Wherever you’re planning to spend your Christmas break, there’s plenty of on and off-line resources ready to help you get the most from the festive season. From routeplanners to local area maps, GPS location systems to mobile phone mapping, there’s no excuse for getting lost this Christmas. Browse our route planning links on this page or take a look at our Christmas A–Z full of information and online resources.
For history fans and the celebrity-minded, we explore on Christmas Day in history and the humble roots of the famous born on the 25 December over the centuries.
For those of you looking for some organised entertainment, our cinema and theatre guide provides a handy festive pantomime planner, and we also round-up the Christmas movie releases coming at a box office near you.
If you decide to go away for a festive break in Scotland, England or Wales, official tourist board web sites offer a wealth of information for you to plan your holiday, or festive day out.
When you reach your festive destination, a visit to the tourist information centre is likely to be high on your list. Save time and drop in around the clock with a trip to Visit Britain’s virtual visitor bureau
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Routeplanning
Transport Direct brings together road and public transport information to give you choices when planning journeys anywhere in Britain.
Use our free Get-a-map service to find your holiday hideaway, a country pub, or your friend's house.
www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap
OS Travel Maps series incorporates the Great Britain Route Map for national route planning, eight regional Road Maps for regional route planning and Tour Maps for touring and local route planning. These handy-sized maps are ideal to keep in your car's gove compartment with clear up-to-date road mapping at various scales making journey planning much easier.
OS Landranger Map is the ideal map for planning the perfect day out providing all the information you need to really get to know an area. OS Explorer Maps are the essential map for outdoor activities, providing greater detail for walking, horse riding and off-road cycling.
Ordnance Survey Interactive Atlas of Great Britain is a two CD-ROM packed full of multimedia content including 100 detailed 1:25,000 scale walking area extracts, 100 1:50,000 scale map extracts covering well known locations, and 500 photographs of places of interest including breathtaking fly-throughs. the Interative Atlas is an ideal Christmas gift.
Several Ordnance Survey partners use our data in their guidebooks, atlases, and in-car navigation systems, and the following partners produce Ordnance Survey maps on CD rom. Further information can be obtained on the following web sites
www.anquet.co.uk
www.memory-map.co.uk
www.tracklogs.co.uk
www.fugawi.com
www.hillwalker.org
Route planning resources from the AA, the RAC, Multimap and Streetmap also map out your journey from door to door or help you locate your destination using Ordnance Survey mapping: