Every OS Explorer map area, eventually, hopefully, and related insights into my life.
OS Explorer map 329, Lowther Hills, Sanquhar & Leadhills: Wanlockhead & Crawford – I own this map, but had not visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 10th July 2021. This is the fifth of six posts about my trip to Wanlockhead in Dumfries and Galloway with my school friends Cabbage, Joystick … Continue reading 329: Wanlockhead
OS Explorer map 331, Teviotdale South: Hawick – I own this map, and had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post 9th July 2021. This is the third of six posts about my trip to Wanlockhead in Dumfries and Galloway with my school friends Cabbage, Joystick and Climbing Programmer, including time … Continue reading 331: Hawick
OS Explorer map OL1, The Peak District Dark Peak Area: Kinder Scout, Bleaklow, Black Hill & Ladybower Reservoir – I own this map, and had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post Sunday 2nd August 2020. Google Maps location links: Pleasant Place in Kegworth, Langsett, Outer Edge, Castleton My previous post … Continue reading OL1: Langsett & the Dark Peak
OS Explorer map 217, The Long Mynd & Wenlock Edge: Church Stretton & Craven Arms – I do not own this map, but had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post 29th December 2019. During my short December 2019 trip to Shropshire with the Dearest Progenitors, I visited two new map … Continue reading 217: Church Stretton & the Long Mynd
OS Explorer map 350, Edinburgh: Musselburgh & Queensferry – I own this map, and had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post 28th May 2019. Like my previous post, I visited this map area as part of the Chase Game, when Climbing Programmer and I, over three days, played a game … Continue reading 350: Edinburgh
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
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
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 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
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
Visiting all the maps! 