Unique, long-distance cycling adventures in 2022, 2024 and a brand NEW adventure in 2026: Going to Extremes!
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 6 month 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
Then, in summer 2024, I embarked on a major new UK adventure called “Cardinal Spins“. I cycled 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 kept bringing me back home! Read all about that in my daily blog above.
In 2025, I cycled up the whole of the East Coast of North America, from Key West, Florida, USA to Cape Spear, Newfoundland, Canada; a two-part journey of around 4,000 miles. I rode from Key West to Boston in March and April, arriving just in time to see the Boston Marathon. I then returned to Boston in mid August to ride up through Maine and across the border into Canada’s Atlantic provinces. The final stage required me to ride across the whole of the island of Newfoundland (and a small piece of France!) in September, ending my journey at the most easterly point in North America: Cape Spear, just outside St John’s Newfoundland. You can read about the first half of that ride at Boringtodull.com
AND NOW…
NEW for 2026, another cycling adventure in the UK, called Going to Extremes!
Follow my posts here at rideallthosmaps.co.uk as I connect together the most southerly, easterly, westerly and northerly inhabited points of the UK – and also (while we are at it) of the British mainland. The adventure will unfold in stages throughout the summer months, starting at St Agnes in the Isles of Scilly, and making its way in a huge zig-zag via East Anglia, Wales, Ireland and the west coast of Scotland to Orkney and finally Shetland, and the UK’s most northerly outpost.
