Every OS Explorer map area, eventually, hopefully, and related insights into my life.
OS Explorer map OL6, The English Lakes – South-western area: Coniston, Ulverton & Barrow-in-Furness – I do not own this map, and had not visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 25th September 2025. Map area link. Google maps location links: Coniston, the Old Man of Coniston, Windermere, Ambleside, Kendal, Broughton-in-Furness. Regular … Continue reading OL6: Coniston
OS Explorer map 174, Epping Forest & Lee Valley: Hertford & Harlow. I own this map, and had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post 14th January 2023. Google maps location links: the London Stone, Victoria Park, Leyton Flats, Chingford, Redbridge, King George Hospital, Brickendonbury Regular readers may remember my Littleport … Continue reading 174: East London & Epping Forest
OS Explorer map OL2, Yorkshire Dales - Southern & Western Area: Whernside, Ingleborough & Pen-y-ghent – I own this map, and had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post 21st September 2022. Google Maps location links: Ribblehead, Embsay, Gargrave I visited this map area as part of my All Line Rover … Continue reading OL2: Ribblehead
OS Explorer map 118, Shaftesbury & Cranborne Chase: Poole, Wimborne Minster & Blandford Forum – I own this map, and had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post 5th May 2021. This is the last of three posts about a trip to Dorset with Vesper, also meeting Mother Dearest. My previous … Continue reading 118: Wimborne Minster
OS Explorer map OL45, The Cotswolds: Burford, Chipping Campden, Cirencester & Stow-on-the-Wold – I own this map and had visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 21st February 2020. This post concerns a weekend I spent in the Cotswolds, doing the catering for an effective altruism retreat. Attentive readers may recall that … Continue reading OL45: the Cotswolds
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
OS Explorer map 208, Bedford & St Neots: Sandy & Biggleswade – I do not own this map, but had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post 3rd September 2018. Hello, dear reader! This is going to be the first post in a good long while that isn't about any lengthy … Continue reading 208: St Neots
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 210: Newmarket & Haverhill Barrow, Clare & Kedington – I do not own this map, and have not visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 24th June 2018. So my previous post had me travelling around Essex and Suffolk for the day with my Oxford friend Little S and her … Continue reading 210: Steeple Bumpstead
OS Explorer map 196, Sudbury, Hadleigh & Dedham Vale: Lavenham & Long Melford – I do not own this map, and had not visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 24th June 2018. In the "two days later" section of my previous post, I told you of the start of a day … Continue reading 196: Bures
Visiting all the maps! 