OS Explorer map 224, Corby, Kettering & Wellingborough: Rockingham Forest – I do not own this map, but had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post 19th April 2019. As you may be aware, I grew up in Northamptonshire, living there from about age 1 until I went off to university. … Continue reading 224: Irthlingborough
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241: Shrewsbury
OS Explorer map 241, Shrewsbury: Wem, Shawbury & Baschurch – I do not own this map, and had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post 31st March 2019. This is the third of three posts about the “Gerald of Wales” trip to North Wales I did in late March 2019 with … Continue reading 241: Shrewsbury
OL18: Blaenau Ffestiniog
OS Explorer map OL18, Harlech, Porthmadog & Y Bala – I own this map, and had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post 29th March 2019. This is the second of three posts about the “Gerald of Wales” trip to North Wales I did in late March 2019 with my friends … Continue reading OL18: Blaenau Ffestiniog
240: Shrawardine (well, half of it)
OS Explorer map 240, Oswestry: Chirk, Ellesmere & Pant – I do not own this map, and had not visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 29th March 2019. This is going to be the first of three posts about the "Gerald of Wales" trip to North Wales I did in late … Continue reading 240: Shrawardine (well, half of it)
236: West Lexham
OS Explorer map 236, King's Lynn, Downham Market & Swaffham. I do not own this map, and had not visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 18th March 2019. Note: West Lexham is in the overlap between maps 236 and 238. This visit is therefore only provisional under The Rules, as it … Continue reading 236: West Lexham
251: Cley & Blakeney
OS Explorer map 251, Norfolk Coast Central: Wells-next-the-Sea & Fakenham. I do not own this map, but had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post 16th February 2019. My dear friend Millicent is very interested in churches, and is rather a fount of knowledge about them, making him always a good … Continue reading 251: Cley & Blakeney
Special: Chase Game 2019
So. I did a rather odd thing over the long weekend of 25th-27th May 2019. I and my friend Climbing Programmer played a game that we'd thought up several years previously: for three days, Climbing Programmer chased me around Britain – I had a GPS tracker on me that he had access to, and a … Continue reading Special: Chase Game 2019
245: near Ashby-de-la-Zouch
OS Explorar map 245, The National Forest: Burton upon Trent, Swadlincote, Ashby-de-la-Zouch & Coalville. I do not own this map, and had visited it (sort of – see below) before starting this blog. Visited for this post 31st December 2018. My previous post, dear reader, told you about a short holiday to Exmoor I went … Continue reading 245: near Ashby-de-la-Zouch
OL9: Exmoor
OS Explorer map OL9, Exmoor: Barnstaple, Lynton, Minehead & Dulverton – I own this map, but hadn't visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 26th December 2018. My last post told you, dear reader, about the stop in Malmesbury that the Dearest Progenitors and I made on our way to the West … Continue reading OL9: Exmoor
168: Stroud and Malmesbury
OS Explorer map 168: Stroud, Tetbury & Malmesbury – I do not own this map, and had not visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 26th December 2018. Unlike last year, when my family had a huge Christmas gathering of all 20 or so of us, with all the madness and screaming … Continue reading 168: Stroud and Malmesbury
Visiting all the maps! 