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Richard Webb
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Knackered ex orienteer and map collector- now on a bike much of the time. Hill bagger.
East Lothian.

Unfortunately due to some authoritarian overreach from our neighbours and overlords and over enthusiastic compliance, I am unable to easily access DMs.
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Poplars, #Herefordshire. There were cattle grazing here as well.
Field with poplars planted in it, the trees are coming into leaf providing a very green image.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Pickering Forest 1980. British Relay Championships. #NorthYorkMoors, #EBOR #Orienteering #Maps #OldOrienteeringMaps
1:10000 scribed orienteering map of a runnable forest on a steep slope overlooking a railway. There is striking line of crags shown with a sawtooth symbol rather than the usual crag symbol. Very clear map with the shade of green associated with EBOR maps of the time.
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Castle Malwood 1980. #NewForest.
Scene of the killing of the Norman king William II. This is the southern edge of the 1980s British Championships area and used as a warm up event.
#OldOrienteeringMaps #Maps #Orienteering #SouthamptonOrienteeringClub #Regicide ?
A very long (East west) orienteering map of runnable New Forest terrain with the usual bright yellow bits where the pony grazing lawns are. 5 colours with lots of controls, there were suggested combinations. Not a competitive event.
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Connel Bridge, #Argyll, #Scotland
Built as a railway bridge and for a while was used by road traffic as well as the railway. Below are the Falls of Lora where the apron at the mouth of a fjord is at sea level, so a waterfall in the sea can form at certain stages at certain stages of the tide.
Road bridge, viewed from the deck. One lane for traffic and a pavement on the left (east). The sea below is not visible in the picture. There are many grey girders beside and above the roadway.
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Wrekin 1979. E. half of the map which included some very brambly industrial ground on limestone as well as the Uriconian ridge itself. 1st use was for the Midland Championships. This map was for a use up the map stock badge event #OldOrienteeringMaps #Orienteering #Maps #WrekinOrienteers #Shropshire
An extract - eastern half of a five colour 1:15000 orienteering map of a steep ridge and nearby limestone woodland which has been quarried and mined. Surrounding farmland is also shown giving an overall yellow appearance but the competition area was entirely forest. Dave Gittus, Wrekin Orienteers.
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Stob Coire a' Chearcaill, a 770m hill opposite Fort William. #Ardgour #Argyll #Hills #Scotland.
Taken in 1991, scanned from a slide.
A moorland glen with some native woodland. There are sheep in the middle distance The background is a long level ridge with snow covered crags and sheltered bowls full of snow. Blue sky and a very brown appearance.
November 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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King's Garn Gutter #NewForest 1980
British Championships M19 course. Very hot, very runnable.
#OldOrienteeringMaps #Orienteering #Maps #SouthamptonOrienteeringClub
1:15000 orienteering map - very runnable forest and a very white looking map. Good condition as maps were not returned after your run and you got a clean one once everyone had started,
November 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Woodland, Craig a Barns, #Perthshire Nov 2nd. Much of the forest above the Cave Pass has been felled. Some survivors here.
Sunlit woodland. Foreground open with a few young trees. Mostly Scots pine with straight trunks, understory of Autumn coloured larch.
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Cramond, 1980 Cramond to Silverknowes with a photocopied map for an evening event. Mapped by Carol McNeil and others from Dunfermline College, the big black buildings on the west of the area (now houses). #OldOrienteeringMaps #OMaps #Orienteering #ESOC
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Black and white 1:10000 map of Cramond from the Almond to Muirhouse including Silverknowes golf course Woodland in Winter with a burn disappearing into a culvert. Two rhododendron bushes either side of the water add a little green.
November 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Lago Todos Los Santos, Chile
House in the traditional local style, shingle walls and roof but built upon a raft in a still lake. There is a wooded background with a symmetrical conical volcano beyond. The volcano is snowcapped against a blue sky.
November 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Happendon 1978. Another from the golden age of scribing. I was familiar with the map from Harvey's JK stands. Now only the eastern part is used, it is not possible to cross the motorway that has been built since. #OldOrienteeringMaps, #Orienteering #Lanarkshire
A very fine scribed map by Harveys Map Services, then of Dunblane. A rather green area with a dual carriageway running through it. Then it was possible to cross the road via a disused railway but a few years later a motorway was built with no crossings. 1:15,000 five colour. Runnable Sitka spruce plantation. Flat with little in the way of ground vegetation or brashings.
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Bill Gauld's #HolyroodPark, 1975. A map which was used for many years. When surveyed, the park was still grazed. Fewer whins and not many trees. #OldOrienteeringMaps #Edinburgh #Orienteering #Maps #EUOC
1:10000 three colour orienteering map of Holyrood Park (Black, blue, brown) Open is mapped as white. Grassed over quarry workings behind Salisbury Crags. There are some young trees on the right and a view towards a big hill with a notch like pass on its right. The hill has a lot of scrub vegetation. Into winter sunlight
October 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Drigg 1980, #Cumberland coast near a low level nuclear waste depository. A very fine #dune area, one I have not seen used for a long time now. #OldOrienteeringMaps #Orienteering #Maps #WestCumberlandOrienteeringClub #WCOC
Four colour orienteering map of a sand dune area with the sea on the west and river on the east side. Yellow screen used. There is a course marked, blue in modern standards. The colour register roundel is in the form of a radiation warning symbol.
October 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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#Cheviot Hills with #hillforts clearly visible on Hownam Law (background) and nearby Green Humbleton. Monday 27th Oct.
Wide and deep view across southern Scotland from Coldsmouth Hill (England). Very green with good shadows showing the relief. Near right side is a hill fort, Green Humbleton. A prominent hill in the distance, Hownam Law is also fortified. Very lumpy terrain under scattered clouds.
October 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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North of the Border - in England . Walked in down the Halter Burn from the Pennine Way to join the footpath network on the way to an ascent of Coldsmouth Hill.
Right hand edge of the picture (south) is in #Scotland #CheviotHills
Sunny day in hilly country. A path runs beside a dyke which is the England /Scotland Border. England is on the north side here. There are three trees in the middle distance and there is a tree topped hill in the distance against a blue sky. Square format.
October 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Mill Dam, Dunkeld #Perthshire #Scotland
Bracken covers gentle slopes to a loch with scattered trees. Low craggy hills in the background covered in trees with Autumn colouring. Sunny
October 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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KrapKamping was not just a Covid phenomenon. Took this on the Loch of the Lowes nature reserve in 2013.
Clearing in woodland with damage from camp fires and an obviously well worn patch of ground. Probably looks a lot worse now 12 years later.
October 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Calder Wood, 1979 Robert Bloor. Still in use. #OldOrienteeringMaps, #OrienteeringMaps #Maps #Interlopers #Orienteering
5 colour orienteering map. Calder Wood 1:7500 drawn by Robert Bloor. On a photogrammetric base map so a bit of an investment. The area is a lightly wooded plateau between two rivers. Slopes to the river are steep. Thinly wooded area with scattered old trees. There is much fallen timber on the ground. An orienteering control flag is hung in the middle distance.
October 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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One of a large number of locked gates with no easy workround encountered above Butterstone #Perthshire yesterday. Even a narrow gate was locked.
Good news, the pines they planted are mostly still alive.
Roughly bulldozed track on heather moorland. There is a tall fence and mesh gate in the middle distance. The wood beside the gate is poor quality and soon will not tolerate anyone climbing it. A hazard.
October 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Blackford Hill and the Braids 1978.
An #EUOC workhorse at the time. Two tiny fragments are now mapped and used alone - KB and Braidburn Valley Park. Southern part is a golf course and still used for night events.
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Woodland in Winter. Little ground vegetation, there are exposed rocks on the right and damage from an open fire on the left. There is a hint of a big drop off in the background. Hermitage, north side of gorge. 1:15000 drawn five colour map of a camps and three parks in the suburbs of southern Edinburgh, Most of the yellow was grazed by dairy cattle then. There are now separate maps of Braidburn Valley Park, Braid Hills, Blackford Hill, Craigmillar Park Golf Course and King's Buildings campus. Andy Curtis and Bill Gauld Course is probably Wednesday afternoon entertainment Start and finish at KBU
October 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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View from Isle Ristol. The closest of the Summer Isles with a short crossing from Old Dornie or walk across on a spring low water. A view to the mainland including Stac Pollaidh. The beach Traigh an t-Sean Bhaille is rather a good one.
Coastal moorland with a white beach middle distance. In the background over a narrow strait is a big moor with a small area of improved grazing by the shore, showing as a pale green. Cloud hides distant peaks except one, a very sharp dark hill, Stac Pollaidh.
October 20, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Light years away. Moorland road, Rubha Mòr #Coigach #WesterRoss #Scotland
A road crosses a vast bog. There are lines in the vegetation where peat had been dug. There is a patchy cloudy sky and isolated hills in the distance. The one on the left, Cùl Mòr has its summit in the cloud. To the right a sharp peak, Stac Pollaidh and another simple triangular peak Cùl Beag are clear of cloud.
October 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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#Ruined shed, South of the Kyle of Sutherland #RossAndCromarty #Scotland
Woodland with orange brown bracken and turning birch leaves. There is a small wooden shed in a dilapidated condition. Still roofed. Square format
October 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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A lone tree island in Loch Assynt, #Sutherland. Anticyclonic gloom, but an amazing flat loch. #Scotland #Weather
Calm water on a dull day. A single windswept and sculpted larch is situated on a tiny rocky island the branches on its right side. Beyond is a rocky hill with orange vegetation, its higher parts obscured by cloud.
October 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Loch Assynt, #Sutherland today - I had to wait before getting onto the water so as not to ruin the mirror for some photographers. Pictures from just off the north and southern shore of the loch.Best reflections I have seen. Had to be quick as the ripples from paddling would get in front if I delayed
Dead trees standing in Loch Assynt perfectly reflected in calm water. Dull weather with low cloud giving muted colour and a lot of grey. Rocky shoreline with. fallen tree and Autumn foliage reflected in still dark waters seen from just offshore. Kalidoscope effect.
October 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM