On the 1997 edition (A3) of Landranger 160 ('Brecon Beacons/Bannau Brycheiniog')
at SN 750440 appears the name of a small watercourse 'Nant y Rhaeadr' written
NW-SE beside the stream. Nothing unusual in that, except the name appears in
two colours -black and blue. Now I have (albeit rarely) seen names printed in
the wrong colour on OS maps before now but never before where, in this case, the
'Rha' and half of the 'e' (the NW half as it were, if the 'e' were rotated back
to the horizontal) are in blue and the other half of the 'e' and the 'adr' are
in black.

I wondered what this oddity tells me about the way OS maps are printed.
Anything?

regards

Alan Bowring
Middlewich

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