Every OS Explorer map area, eventually, hopefully, and related insights into my life.
In September 2022, I travelled around Britain for a week and a half using an All Line Rover train ticket. This is the sixth 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 5: Ribblehead, Garsdale & Glasgow
OS Explorer map 336, Biggar & Broughton Culter Fell & Dollar Law – I own this map, but had not visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 12th July 2021. This is the last of six posts about my trip to Wanlockhead in Dumfries and Galloway with my school friends, including time … Continue reading 336: Biggar
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 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 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
OS Explorer map 223, Newport Pagnell & Northampton South: Towcester & Olney – I own this map, and I have visited it before I started this blog. Visited for this post 15th December 2017. Like my post about Cambridge, this one is can only be somewhat atypical, since for me this map is home. My parents … Continue reading 223: Northampton
OS Explorer map 162, Greenwich and Gravesend: East End, Docklands, Bromley, Sidcup & Thurrock – I don't own this map, but I have visited it before I started this blog. Visited for this post 13th December 2017. So this post continues straight on from the last, as I entered map 162 on the TfL Rail … Continue reading 162: London (Stratford)
OS Explorer map 173, London North: The City, West End, Enfield, Ealing, Harrow & Watford – I own this map, and I have visited it before I started this blog. Visited for this post 13th December 2017. So this post continues on immediately from the last one, since I came to London directly from Millicent's … Continue reading 173: London (North)
OS Explorer map 194, Hertford & Bishop’s Stortford: Buntingford & Clavering – I do not own this map, and had not visited it until now. Visited for this post 12th December 2017. This will be my first "proper" post, since this is actually somewhere I had to travel to get to rather than just living there. … Continue reading 194: around Hertford
Visiting all the maps! 