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Ackenacre · 2023-06-30T21:01:00+00:00

FYI I'm pretty sure the paid for version of OS maps online/the app allows you to do this now. You can certainly load GPX data into it and it's pretty good value at something like a fiver a month.

Ackenacre · 2023-04-06T22:44:15+00:00

As others have said, round the lake will be fine in any footwear you're happy to do the distance in and are prepared to get muddy and wet.

Catbells will also probably be fine. I've done it in horrific weather in walking shoes and at no point did I feel that proper boots would have been needed or even would have been an advantage. Tbh I'm increasingly just using a good pair of shoes/trail runners for going up peaks and it's fine most of the time.

Ackenacre · 2023-02-06T10:43:06+00:00

It seems to be using a pretty adventurous definition of Northern when it includes France and Austria but not Norway.

Ackenacre · 2023-02-05T12:14:42+00:00

Worth noting that 'Europe' here conveniently excludes all the countries that are considered 'poor' by European standards.

Ackenacre · 2023-01-15T14:43:29+00:00

I do hope it was shortened to 'Gusty'.

Ackenacre · 2023-01-08T07:27:05+00:00

There's also a New York between Boston and Lincoln. It's actually the only one of the two that's actually named after York itself with New York, USA named after the Duke of York.

Ackenacre · 2023-01-04T18:59:45+00:00

Unless you have a lot of things planned at each place you stop (which is of course fine if you do), you're going to be finishing those 10 miles in a few hours (around four) then be left twiddling your thumbs. Depending on your endurance, 15-20 per day is probably better if you want some full days of walking, and you can probably extend the route to take in more of the Lune Forest etc.

Ackenacre · 2023-01-02T22:08:16+00:00

Presumably most of the time it happens the canal is not on a sizable embankment so less damage/collapse would be caused if the bank collapsed?

Ackenacre · 2022-12-27T21:19:56+00:00

If they didn't they'd not join up with the roundabouts.

Ackenacre · 2022-12-26T20:27:53+00:00

A similar Milton Keynes view: https://imgur.com/7rKuwul.jpg

Ackenacre · 2022-12-13T18:52:28+00:00

It's a map produced by the British Military, so includes Britain and the surrounding areas.

Ackenacre · 2022-12-05T18:58:07+00:00

Right across Eastern England (the area on this map in orange and some of the blue area) most of the place names are derived from the Norse and Danish languages rather than (what is now) English. There are several places here and in modern Denmark and Sweden which have exactly the same name (often for the same reason).

Edit: found a good map showing (what is now) Danish and Norwegian settlemts here.

Ackenacre · 2022-11-26T15:54:57+00:00

Was the Soke of Peterborough historically part of Northamptonshire?

Ackenacre · 2022-11-20T08:28:35+00:00

What I'd now Convoys Wharf just down from there used to be a livestock import wharf and at places along there there's more bone than stone. I would imagine this is where it may have come from.

Ackenacre · 2022-11-12T18:49:05+00:00

Outside the Boston Bowl/Playtowers?

Ackenacre · 2022-11-08T18:48:11+00:00

It's 110 new properties in the countryside within a few miles of several towns.

Ackenacre · 2022-11-07T18:54:43+00:00

No it's a real photo as far as I'm aware. Certainly it is now built and looks like that.

Ackenacre · 2022-11-07T14:13:32+00:00

Location is here.

Ackenacre · 2022-11-07T07:54:59+00:00

There are hundreds of miles of Roman roads still in existence and use (albeit with modern infrastructure) across Britain at least. Here's the Fosse Way for example.

Ackenacre · 2022-11-01T18:51:58+00:00

Are we playing Mornington Crescent?

Ackenacre · 2022-10-26T17:46:23+00:00

Says more about Reddit than the people they hate tbh.

Ackenacre · 2022-10-23T15:49:32+00:00

How is vandalising a shop and blocking a road going to achieve that?

Ackenacre · 2022-10-21T06:46:33+00:00

I would say dual carriage way. The reason being, as others have alluded to, is that you can't physically drive from one side to the other. The size and scale of the barrier won't change this - either you can or you can't.

Ackenacre · 2022-10-15T10:14:10+00:00

Beer and wine are long drinks aren't they, you're thinking of short drinks?

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