Andrew Skinner's volume of strip road maps was essentially Scotland's first road atlas. It consists of 61 plates showing roads across Scotland at the one-inch to the mile scale, covering some 3,000 miles in total.. The volume was designed to be folded into a portable accessory for the growing number of travellers and visitors in Scotland. The maps were particularly helpful to those travelling by coach as they indicated places where the traveller might stay and villages with inns where horses might be rested. Another feature indicated on these maps was tolls. This was quite popular and ran through several editions up to the 1820s when the alterations to the road infrastructure in Scotland made them out of date. The roads have altered considerably since these maps were made; for example—the road from Lanark to Biggar remod- elled by Thomas Telford in 1822.
