De-Graft: The United Kingdom of ... could scan an OS map for the different sorts of settlement shape and see whether there are any patterns. Do the shapes connect to any physical landscape ...

It will help pupils to understand that the United Kingdom is made up of four countries and that each of these countries has its own significant human and physical features. Being map based ...

Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.