Cycling all of Britain

Unique, long-distance OS map cycling adventures in 2022 and 2024

— LATEST POSTS —
Cardinal Spins 15: WSW – Day 2
Montgomery It must have rained an awful lot overnight, because the roads were covered in big …
Cardinal Spins 15: WSW – Day 1
oplus_1048576 While the rain fell in the north west of Scotland, things further south were much …
Cardinal Spins 14: NW – Day 6
Glasgow Thanks to the delay in my rail journey north to Scotland, I now had a …
Cardinal Spins 14: NW – Day 5
Castle Stalker The sun was glittering off the surface of Loch Fyne as I left my …
— WHAT IS ‘RIDEALLTHEOSMAPS’? —

I’m Mark Wedgwood. During spring, summer and autumn of 2022, I cycled through all of Britain in a way nobody has (to my knowledge) done before: going through all 204 Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 maps – in numerically ascending order – from the top of Shetland to the bottom right corner of Cornwall.

It was a journey of over 7,300 miles, criss-crossing every part of England, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man.

Read more about my 2022 adventure

In summer 2023 I cycled between the paired communities of Boring, Oregon, USA to Dull, Scotland. Read more at Boring to Dull – A very interesting bicycle ride across USA, Iceland and Scotland

Now, in summer 2024, I am embarking on my latest adventure: “Cardinal Spins”. I plan to cycle out from my home in Hathersage in the Derbyshire Peak District, to each of the 16 cardinal points of the compass – a journey of about 4,000 miles that will keep bringing me back home! Read more about that in my daily blog above.

Watch a short INTRO VIDEO about the 2022 Riding All the OS Maps adventure
Cardinal Spins – My 2024 adventure encompassing 16 unique journeys starting from my home in Hathersage, Derbyshire, UK