UK's worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440

Golden eagles, leaping salmon and the rugged beauty of Scotland's Glen Cassley appear to leave tourists cold - they're missing a treatA single Scots pine grows from a boulder standing in the middle of Achness waterfall in Glen Cassley in the Highlands. It is a striking sight. Isolated in the fiercely flowing river Cassley, the tree towers above a long stretch of rocks swept by torrents of water. Salmon leap upriver in summer while golden eagles swoop overhead. It is an image of Scotland at its glorious, scenic best and would be expected to attract tourists in their droves. But in Glen Cassley, 50 miles north of Inverness, visitors are conspicuous by their absence.Indeed, according to the Ordnance Survey, its map of Glen Cassley is the least purchased item in the entire OS Explorer map series. "Getting up there is only for the more hardy of us, perhaps, but it is still not clear why the map should be so unpopular," said Nick Giles, the managing director of Ordnance Survey Consumer. Continue reading...