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@Greenbank
Spiral bound 1:250,000 Road Atlas from a pound shop. 1 earth pound.
Rip out the pages that cover your route, stuff in ziploc bag. Refold as necessary.
1:50,000 maps are a nightmare for cycling with (especially on a route of that length) as you'll be moving and refolding them every 5 miles or so. If it's raining there's no way to do this without the map getting wet and it'll be fucked at the end of the first day.
I needed about 7 map pages for this: [ame]http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/266092[/ame
[/ame] (GPS tracklog filled up on the way into Dalkeith, I actually carried on up to North Berwick) as a backup to my (non-mapping) GPS. Didn't need to look at the map pages once.Who cares about contour lines, sites of historic interest or whatever.