streetmap.co.uk

Ok, This isn't a site that will tell you if you are hot or not, you won’t find any nasty or yummy email attachments with an option of anonymous sender to p*** of your enemies or friends, and you don’t have to empty your history folder after visiting the site. No fun, glamour or hanky panky, then what’s use of the site? You must be thinking. Well believe me it’s still a very useful site and very easy to use. Streetmap.co.uk is a site where you can find any street or place in UK(mainland only) with the map of the area displayed. The site is very simple and easy to use ... more

My father has an appointment at a clinic next week to see if there is anything that they can do for him to ease the pains in his knees, as he sometimes finds it very difficult to walk. He, my mother, Dave and I all knew roughly where this particular clinic was but none of us were sure of the exact location, so I offered to find out for mom and dad and let them know. It would be no problem; I would just look in my A to Z, it was that easy. Well, actually, no it was not going to be that easy, as when I reached for my A to Z I remembered that I had already packed all my books ready for our house ... more

There must be occasions when you have to go somewhere out of the ordinary. Even if it happens to be a town only a few miles away from where you live. How do you find out where to go? I know in the past, I would wander along to my local library and ask if they had a streetmap of that town or village. Quite often they would have if it was in our county or one adjacent. But what if not? Now there is an answer – streetmap.co.uk! It really is a Reference site ‘par excellence’ You can search for the address you are looking for by entering either the street and town names, or even ... more

This is a site which will mean that you have no excuse to get lost again. This site provides address searching and street map facilities for the UK. They currently have street and road maps for the whole of mainland Britain. The search engine is excellent and will recognise all post codes in the UK. You can try how good it is by typing your own post code out and instantly finding a detailed, colour map of your area. And a yellow arrow to indicate the postal code and bingo you have found your own street. You can then maximise the size of the map, move it about etc. You don’t have to ... more

I am always on the look out for useful sites and services and what a useful site this has proved to be, I regularly use it rather than go to the expense of buying maps. What am I going on about, Streetmaps.co.uk, here you will find OS maps for every location in the UK and in most cases you can even locate street level maps, by that I mean maps allowing you to pinpoint any individual road in the country. Finding somewhere has never been so easy. The site can be easily searched on a variety of criteria, Post Code, UK Place Name (town city village, etc), OS Grid Reference, Landranger Grid ... more