Map Man - Episode Guide

Nicholas Crane travels across wild Highland landscapes using William Roy's pioneering military map of 18th-century Scotland.

Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain. He uses a 1675 road map to traverse the trans-Pennine pass from York to Lancaster.

Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain. Inspired by a circuit board diagram, Harry Beck designed the now iconic London Underground Map.

Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain. Created in the time of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Gough Map is a real mystery.

Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain. He uses Greenville Collins's coasting pilot of 1693 to navigate the Cornish coastline.

Nicholas Crane examines maps that changed the face of Britain. William Smith's 1815 Geological Map of England and Wales.

Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed Britain. Saxton's 1577 map of Norfolk helps him through some wild waterland.

Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed Britain. A modern OS map helps him through some wild Highland territory.

Nicholas Crane travels Britiain using historical maps. He uses Bartholomew's Cycling Map to set a route through the Lake District.

Nicholas Crane travels across eight British historical maps. He uses Timothy Pont's 16th-century maps of Scotland to locate unidentified mountains.

Nicholas Crane travels across British historical maps. In the 1740s, schoolmaster Murdoch Mackenzie used revolutionary ways to map the sea.

Nicholas Crane travels across Britain using historical maps. Can he navigate Berwick with Speed's roadless town plan?

Nicholas Crane travels across British historical maps. John Cary was commissioned to map the hottest new investment of the industrial age, the canals.

Nicholas Crane travels across eight British historical maps. He reproduces the triangulation methods of Mudge's original Ordnance Survey map.

Nicholas Crane travels across eight British historical maps. He follows the trail of Mrs Phyllis Pearsall, who created the London A-Z map almost singlehandedly in 1936.

Nicholas Crane tries to locate a lost village using Thomas Raven's 1625 maps of the Clandeboye Estate in the north of Ireland.