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