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British map and travel bookstore Stanfords is moving its London store<\/a> from its venerable Long Acre location, where they’ve been since 1901 (!), to a new building on Mercer Walk, all of 200 metres away. They cite a need for more back-office space for their online business. The new store is officially scheduled to open in January, but the ground floor will be open as a gift boutique later this month. [TimeOut London<\/em><\/a>\/MAPS-L<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British map and travel bookstore Stanfords is moving its London store from its venerable Long Acre location, where they’ve been since 1901 (!), to a new building on Mercer Walk, all of 200 metres away.… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[166,307,1318],"class_list":["post-1786646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-industry","tag-london","tag-map-stores","tag-stanfords","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787028,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/01\/more-on-stanfordss-move-and-paper-maps-comeback\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786646,"position":0},"title":"More on Stanfords’s Move and Paper Maps’ Comeback","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 January 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Another article on the comeback of paper maps that is really about the move of the venerable map and travel bookstore Stanfords\u2019s London store to new digs, this time from Nicholas Crane in the Financial Times. 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