Every OS Explorer map area, eventually, hopefully, and related insights into my life.
OS Explorer map 232, Nuneaton & Tamworth: Lichfield & Atherstone – I do not own this map, and had not visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 26th July 2025. This is the third of three posts about my trip up to the Isle of Harris with Vesper in July 2025. Map … Continue reading 232: Lichfield
OS Explorer map 298, Nidderdale: Fountains Abbey, Ripon & Pateley Bridge – I own this map, and had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post on 20th December 2023. Google Maps location links: Long Eaton, Harrogate, Knaresborough, Bishop Thornton, Pateley Bridge, Brimham Rocks, Ripon, Masham, Kettlewell I'll write here about a … Continue reading 298: Nidderdale & Ripon
OS Explorer map 105, Falmouth & Mevagissey: Truro & St Mawes – I do not own this map, and had not visited it before starting this blog. Visited for the first time 17th September 2022. Google Maps location links: Wimbledon, East Croydon I visited this map area as part of my All Line Rover trip … Continue reading 105: Truro & Falmouth
In September 2022, I travelled around Britain for a week and a half using an All Line Rover train ticket. This is the second of eleven special posts giving a day-by-day narration of my trip. I also wrote an introduction to the trip, discussing my plans and goals, before I left; and will follow up … Continue reading All Line Rover trip Day 1: Falmouth, Truro, St Ives & Tavistock
OS Explorer map OL36, North Pembrokeshire – I own this map, but had not visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 22nd July 2022. Google Maps location links: Square & Compass, Abercastle, St Davids My previous post told you of the beginning of my holiday to Pembrokeshire with my friends Cheremy, Queenie, … Continue reading OL35: St Davids & North Pembrokeshire
OS Explorer map 290, York: Selby & Tadcaster – I do not own this map, but had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post 11th July 2022. Google Maps location links: York, Ripon This summer, my parents have been married for 30 years, and in celebration of this, they invited me … Continue reading 290: York
OS Explorer map 308, Durham & Sunderland: Chester-le-Street & Peterlee – I own this map, and had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post 8th May 2021. Google Maps location links: Durham, Langley Park, Hill Top, Bearpark As you'll know from my last few posts regarding my trip down to Dorset … Continue reading 308: Durham
OS Explorer map OL41, Forest of Bowland: Pendle Hill, Clitheroe & Settle. I own this map, but had not visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 22nd November 2019. I visited Clitheroe in November doing something I hadn't really done before – I went on holiday by myself. Now, for someone who … Continue reading OL41: Clitheroe
OS Explorer map 179, Gloucester, Cheltenham & Stroud – I do not own this map, and had not visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post 13th August 2018. So my previous two posts concerned a trip I made in August to Aberystwyth, when I and Millicent went to visit our friend … Continue reading 179: Gloucester
OS Explorer map 204, Worcester & Droitwich Spa – I do not own this map, and had not visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 13th August 2018. My previous post told of a trip that Millicent and I made in August, to visit our friend Erithacus in Aberystwyth, where she was … Continue reading 204: Worcester
Visiting all the maps! 