Are you new to the area or have you just arrived in the U.K. and are trying to get you bearings? If so, we can recommend Ordnance Survey Landranger Maps as each one covers a reasonably sized area with a good degree of detail. You will be able to see your particular location, along with road networks, railways & stations and almost endless features, ranging from Post Offices, public houses and historic sites, to public rights of way (footpaths & bridleways) through some outstanding scenery; you can even see the predominant type of trees in woodlands! You can preview at http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/ but the traditional paper versions are much more visually attractive and walkers, in particular, can often be seen carry them. There is also the Explorer series but as the scale is much larger, the area covered by each one is much less than that offered by the smaller scale Landrangers. Each map retails at around £7.50 and they can make for both an interesting and useful souvenir of time spent in the area. We even know someone who likes to receive one as a birthday present as “they make a good read” although we aren’t going to advocate that you become this fixated!

OS Landranger 175 (ISBN 0-319-22775-8) covers the area from Reading to Slough and High Wycombe to Camberley (including Maidenhead & Windsor).