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THE Land Utilisation Survey of Britain organised by the London School of Economics and the Geographical Association, under the direction of Dr. L. Dudley Stamp, reports considerable progress during its first year. A general report on the work is given in the Bulletin of the Survey for February. After fifteen months' wrork, four counties in England and one in Scotland are completely finished and another eight counties are on the verge of completion. Of the 22,000 quarter-sheets of the 6-inch map of Great Britain, 3670 have been finished. This is good progress, when it is borne in mind that the work had to be organised from the start in every county and is entirely on a voluntary basis. The completed sheets are being reduced to a 1-inch scale, and will then be printed in seven colours and issued bv the Ordnance Survey. The numbering of these sheets will be on the basis of the popular edition of the 1-inch map. Sheet 114 (Windsor) is to be produced as an experimental sheet. While work is proceeding rapidly, in parts of the country, particularly in some of the counties of northern England, there are several areas in which little has yet been done. These blank areas include Gloucestershire, Essex, Huntingdon, several Welsh counties, the North Riding of Yorkshire, much of Northumberland, south-west Scotland, and large areas in the central and western Highlands. For these and other regions workers are still required.
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Land Utilisation Survey. Nature 129, 430 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129430a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/129430a0