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Forthcoming Event
ACE: Arts Council England highlight a few of the many great arts activities taking place around the country throughout 2011.
OS: Ordnance Survey has joined forces with Southampton City Council to celebrate over 160 years of history between the map makers and the city with an exhibition at the MaritimeMuseum.
Ordnance Survey In Southampton: Mapping Great Britain Since 1791 celebrates not only a long association between the national mapping agency and the city of Southampton, but also the Ordnance Survey's recent move to a new head office at Adanac Park, near the M271.
Ordnance Survey In Southampton: Mapping Great Britain Since 1791 celebrates not only a long association between the national mapping agency and the city of Southampton, but also the Ordnance Survey's recent move to a new head office at Adanac Park, near the M271.
The exhibition showcases a timeline of Ordnance Survey's history starting in 1791 when the Board of Ordnance Survey was ordered, by the government, to survey England's south coast to protect the country from a French Revolution sweeping across the English Channel. The exhibition runs until Sunday 5 June 2011. For details of opening times & ticket prices, visit the Southampton Maritime Museum website.
