One Square

[martin_wynne]

Another mapping site, from Bill Chadwick: http://wtp2.appspot.com/wtp2.htm

 

Full screen Landranger and aerial synchronised side-by-side. No advertising. Multimap API. Unlike Anthony Cartmell's site, this one covers the entire world. Don't click the link if you haven't got an hour to spare.

 

The same site with full search and options, but UK only: http://wtp2.appspot....eresthepath.htm Note the red ?© button -- swaps instantly from the old NPE maps to the current map -- brilliant for the One Square game.

 

The maps show a marker on both map and aerial, even when they are not to the same scale. Useful zoom out/zoom in function on right-click, in addition to the mouse wheel.

 

Map only (no aerial): http://wtp2.appspot....bile/mobile.htm

 

Home page: http://wtp2.appspot.com

 

Detailed notes about the site: http://wtp2.appspot.com/help.htm

 

regards,

 

Martin.

[pH]

A short distance northwest of this square is a large village/small town which has, amongst its attractions, a transport museum, a narrow gauge railway and a dry ski slope. The railway was started using track and equipment from a railway originally used to transport peat. (The town is also the site of a battle of the Civil War, but that could be misleading. )

[Steam Rich]

Ah, thats Whiteley just SE of Alford - I've spend the night scanning scotland for that square and must have missed that area!

 

 

Next:

[pH]

Kirkby Stephen:

 

[pH]

Next:

 

[pH]

Clue - Robins and Scimitars were built near here.

[Steam Rich]

That makes it just north of Tamworth then...

 

Next:

[Steam Rich]

I was going to post a clue, but have managed to forget where it was myself...

[martin_wynne]

I was going to post a clue, but have managed to forget where it was myself...

That's happened to me, too.

 

I now prepare a clue in readiness before posting the square. Then I can use the clue myself!

 

Martin.

[Steam Rich]

Clue:

Various varieties of black sheep can be found a few squares away from this one

[martin_wynne]

West Tanfield:

[martin_wynne]

Next up (an easy one) :

[Beardybloke]

Easy indeed, if I got it!

 

Hayling Island:

[Beardybloke]

Next up:

[martin_wynne]

Cydweli:

[martin_wynne]

Next up:

[Shadow]

Just South East of Bosley, near Congleton

 

Sorry, can't upload any pictures yet!!

 

Will try again in a little while.

 

Well, looks it did upload Twice as well

Edited January 10, 2010 by Shadow

[Shadow]

Next

[Shadow]

Clue :- It's west of the longest mainline non-electrified railway tunnel in the UK

[Shadow]

Getting a clue in whilst the server is still running

 

The grave of one of Robin Hood's larger merry men is alleged to be in this town.

[martin_wynne]

Hathersage:

[martin_wynne]

Next. An easy one while the server is running.

[Shadow]

Fenny Compton

[Shadow]

Next

[Shadow]

This line was first built in 1848, and became a junction in 1894.

 

However, there were problems. The local land owner, "Earl of ?", refused to sell the land and forbid the surveyors entry. A group of surveyors, walking along the towpath of the local canal, were confronted by Lord ?'s men and ordered to return to where they had come from.

Since it was a public right of way, the surveyors refused, whereupon they were arrested and put in a cart, presumably to be taken before a magistrate. They were stopped by a policeman who pointed out that the surveyors were in the right, so they were simply tipped out into the road.

 

In what became known as the "Battle of ?", the Railway men returned with reinforcements, to meet a similarly enlarged force of estate workers. The railwaymen were chased away but returned two days later, early in the morning, to find Lord ?'s men waiting for them once more. The mayhem came to the attention of the authorities, who imprisoned some of the Railway men and fined some estate workers for damage to surveying equipment.

^{(Info extracted from Wikipedia)}