2026 Collins Essential Road Atlas Britain and Northern Ireland

Explore Britain with easy-to-read mapping from Collins.
This A4, spiral-bound road atlas provides clear and detailed road mapping for England, Wales and Southern Scotland at a scale of 3.2 miles to 1 inch (1:200,000). For Northern Scotland the mapping is at a scale of 4.2 miles to 1 inch (1:266,000), with land height shown by different layers of colouring.



Main features:





Route planning section including maps at a scale of 22 miles to 1 inch, motorway services information, and a handy distance calculator chart
More than 20 urban approach maps at a larger scale which clearly show the best routes through and into built-up areas
64 street maps focused on town centres showing places of interest, car park locations and one-way streets. All the street maps are fully indexed
Over 30 categories of places of interest including castles, theme parks, sports venues, universities, mountain bike trails and surfing beaches
The top 1000 most visited places of interest are indexed with full postcodes to aid integration with sat-nav systems
Updated Park & Ride locations, new rail stations and extensions to tram lines in Blackpool and Edinburgh


This is the ideal purchase for drivers, navigators and route planners who want the very best road atlas of Britain in an A4 format.