Features depicted in the product

This page details the features depicted in the 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster.

Settlements and man-made structures

Buildings are generalised and shown with colour tint and cartographically placed text to indicate settlement name and extent.

Structures are indicated by lines, buildings or symbols, and selected distinctive named features are supplemented with a text description.

Transport

Transport features depicted include tracks, paths, roads, railway lines (single and multiple track), railway stations, airports and airstrips, ferry routes and ports, cycle routes, and bus and coach stations.

Water features

Water features are shown in blue with associated text. A distinction is made between natural (blue) and man-made (black) water features, except for canals (which are shown in blue).

Natural landscape features

Different types of natural features and vegetation are shown by symbols or colour tint, including woods, rock, scree, boulders, sand, shingle, mud and slope.

Rights of way and access land

The following routes are depicted in this product:

• Footpaths, including permissive

• Bridleways, including permissive

• Byways open to all traffic

• Restricted byways

• Other routes with public access (ORPA)

• National Trails and Scottish Great Trails and Recreational Routes

• Recreational routes

• Rights of way (England and Wales only)

• Access land

Portrayal of access land is intended as a guide to land that is normally available for access on foot, for example, access land created under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, and land managed by The National Trust™, Woodland Trust, National Parks and local authorities. Land owned by Forestry England is only shown as Open Access where coincident with CRoW land.

Height

Ground contours, survey heights and air survey heights are depicted. Heights are to the nearest metre above mean sea level. Heights shown close to a triangulation pillar refer to the ground level height at the pillar and not necessarily the height at the summit.

Administrative boundaries

National, county, district, unitary authority and civil parish boundaries are all depicted in the product.

Tourist information

Selected tourist and leisure information is normally restricted to features providing public access or services. Tourist information is shown by a blue symbol using, where possible, nationally recognised symbols. Where appropriate, symbols also have black distinctive names, for example, country parks, major gardens and so on.

Heritage and archaeological sites

Depiction includes information supplied by English Heritage®, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

Coastline and coastal features

Low and high water, man-made and natural landscape features are all depicted.

National Grid lines

National Grid lines are shown at 1-km intervals.

Annotation

Descriptive and distinctive names are depicted as text.