‘Good balance between detail and clarity with excellent town maps’ What Car?
PHILIP’S – Market leader and No. 1 in the UK for clear maps 2025 Philip’s Road Atlas of Britain and Ireland is a top-of-the-range, A4-sized, paperback atlas featuring fully updated maps from the Philip’s digital database. Voted Britain’s clearest and most detailed in an independent consumer survey, the mapping is super-clear.

* Mapping at a scale of 3 miles to 1 inch = 1:200,000 for clarity and ease of use
* Top tips for better and safer driving including how to parallel park
* 160 pages of fully updated super-clear road maps
* 10 pages of detailed route-planning maps, to help plan your route in advance
* 88 fully indexed and detailed town-centre maps
* Major city approach maps with named arterial roads
* Clear road mapping showing all of Ireland

This atlas contains 160 pages of road maps covering Britain at 3 miles to 1 inch, with the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland at smaller scales. The maps clearly mark service areas, roundabouts and multi-level junctions, and in rural areas distinguish between roads over and under 4 metres wide. It also includes a 2-page road map of Ireland, 10 pages of route-planning maps, a distance table, 10 large-scale city approach maps with named arterial roads, the latest ULEZ details, and 88 extra-detailed and fully indexed town and city plans.

Wherever you are driving in Britain and Ireland, this is the ultimate road trip companion.

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