Walk Geography

The Walk: The North Downs Way starts (or finishes) at Farnham, Surrey. This walk starts from Farnham Station, follows the Trail through varied Surrey countryside to the River Wey gap, and ends in Guildford town centre.

Isle of Grain and Hoo Peninsula

The Walk: From the car park at the Grain Coastal Park, follow the England Coast Path to Allhallows and onward to St Mary's Bay, then head inland down to the village of St Mary Hoo.

A visit to Major-General Roy's Baseline (1784)

All who walk or cycle in Britain owe a debt of gratitude to the Ordnance Survey (OS), without whose maps we would be lost - literally. Even those who don't use OS Maps directly, use apps that probably would not exist were it not for the definitive mapping provided by the OS. Whilst I use Google Maps in this blog, I always use OS mapping on my walks and cycle rides (courtesy of the Memory Map app). The nearest things to shrines for OS devotees are the two ends of General Roy's baseline in West London, one of which is located in a non-descript cul-de-sac in Hampton, the other on the Northern Perimeter Road of Heathrow Airport. Here they are on the OS Explorer 1:25K map. I show the baseline as a blue line, and fittingly, the OS marks the memorials at both ends. The baseline on OS 1:25K Explorer Mapping The ends are marked on the ground by cannon barrels, as explained below. South Eastern end (left), North Western end (right) Major General William Roy (1726-1790) was perhaps the ...

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