The Mitchell Library holds an extensive collection of maps and atlases with some 35,000 sheet maps and 300 atlases. These range from a 1647 edition of an early world atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by the Dutch publisher Joan Blaeu, to current editions of maps published by the Ordnance Survey.
We have detailed maps of the whole of Scotland with Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and Dunbartonshire areas very well covered. There are less detailed maps available for the rest of the UK.
Ordnance Survey and Glasgow maps are available on Level 2, Admiralty Charts and all other maps are available on Level 4.
Glasgow maps of all periods, including early maps of Glasgow dating from the 12th century until 1850
Cairns Mitchell collection of early maps of Scotland
General Roy's Military Survey of Scotland, 1747-1755
Ordnance Survey maps covering most scales and areas, 1856 - present day
Bartholomew’s leisure maps, 1990
Admiralty Charts
street maps
geological maps
environmental geology maps, for Glasgow only
land capability maps
maps from the Macauley Institute for Soil Research