Lille - Dunkerque

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£5.95

One of the titles in IGN’s series Top100 - the best maps for exploring the French countryside by car, on a bike, or even on foot, used by millions of tourists and locals alike. The maps show more minor roads than other series and have a topographic base with contours enhanced by relief shading. Graphic relief is added in high mountainous areas, to give an even better presentation of the terrain. Different types of vegetation and land cultivation are indicated. Road network is presented in great detail, as expected of large scale mapping. All administrative boundaries are shown.

The maps show plenty of tourist information, such as places of interest, sport and recreational facilities, etc. For walkers, the maps have an overprint highlighting the long-distance footpaths, the GRs, making them an ideal supplement to the topo-guides. Each map covers an area of approximately 110 x 88 km / 62 x 55 miles. Latitude and longitude are shown in grads based on the Paris meridian. Map legend includes English.

This title extends from the Channel port of Dunkerque south to Arras and Valenciennes, and east, across south-western Belgium, to Ypres and Oudenaarde. In its centre is Lille, one of the main tourist destinations in northern France. Many British visitors will come to this area to see the British and Commonwealth cemeteries and war memorials along the northern part of the Western Front, from Arras and the Vimy Ridge to Passendale. On the Belgian side there is no special tourist overprint, indicating places of interest, etc., but British cemeteries around Ploegsteert and Passendale are marked.The main Somme battlefields around Bapaume and Albert are on the adjoining map No.4.