Fifth Edition : small and large sheets : Home page
We have a large stock of One-inch Fifth Edition, small and large sheet maps, which have yet to be put on this site.
Please contact us for specific wants.
Published 1934-36 on 22 sheets alongside the original small sheet Relief series (see Fifth Relief Edition) and between 1937-39 on 16 additional larger sheets (which were never issued in the relief style). Sheet 113 was issued in all three editions.
Fifth Edition, small and large sheets : Sheets 93 - 146
A full history and carto-bibliography of the series can be found in A guide to the Ordnance Survey one-inch Fifth Edition.
Print codes used
These are found in the lower corners of each sheet. They vary, but the most common are a quantity and year, 3000/27 or a shorter version 3027, meaning the same thing. Only the last code is given here.
Cover codes
The standard cover (code SC) has blue border and a picture by Ellis Martin, of a man with a haversack sitting on a hillside looking at a map. In 1938 a single piece cover, with the same design but hinged at the top (as used today) was introduced (code BF). Some maps have a paper wrap around book like cover (code BK) with the standard design.
See also Fifth Relief Edition.