Silas,

Admiralty charts show lines of magnetic variation on them.  Of course these
are likely to cover only coastal areas!

More seriously, I would imagine a phone call to an HMSO office would tell
you if maps are produced showing magnetic variation.  Equally, I'm sure
that one of the other list members will come up with an internet site where
you put in your co-ordinates and get back the variation  ;-)

Actually I've just looked up quite a nice site if you don't need to be too
precise
http://www.webworkshop.com/pangolin/magvar.html
This shows a Mecator map of the world and displays the latitude / longitude
and magnetic variation of the point at which the mouse cursor is.  The
accuracy seems to be limited by how well you can position the mouse over
your chosen location, given that no cities are shown.  However, as the
variation looks as though it changes reasonably slowly, with atlas in one
hand and mouse in the other, I should think you would be able to get
variation to at least a quarter of a degree (I didn't spend that long
trying the site out as I'm at work).

David Higgon
London

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