#oldorienteeringmaps — Public Fediverse posts

Dalswinton 1981, Harvey's Map Service. Once again an area that was mostly felled after use. It was excellent terrain at the time. Usual Harveys clarity. The forest, now mainly Sitka is just north of Dumfries. #OldOrienteeringMaps #Orienteering #Maps #SolwayOrienteers

Waterhouses 1981. Near Durham and used for BUSF (the universities championships of the time) individual. The course was on two maps. #OldOrienteeringMaps #Orienteering #UniversityOfDurham #Maps

Lizard Hill and the Gallops 1981 Dave Gittus & #WrekinOrienteers Warm up for the #JK 1981. I walked to the event from Shifnal Station on Good Friday. 2018 version: www.wrekin.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#15

#OldOrienteeringMaps #Maps #Orienteering Cunning #Running

Beaudesert 1981. The other half of the #JK map used on the first day of the event. In those days there were two long distance classic races and a replay in the prestigious race. #OldOrienteeringMaps #Maps #Orienteering #CannockChase Cunning #Running #WaltonChasers

Titterstone Clee Hill 1984. 1980s Harlequins maps had a very distinctive look. Fast grassland with mining and quarrying heritage. #Orienteering #OldOrienteeringMaps #Maps #Shropshire #Harlequins

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2520108

Blea Tarn 1980. Northern Championships. I was lucky enough to run on this map again, many years later. A superb area with runnable grassland and lovely scenery. Finish was in a big garden.
This is the Eskdale Blea Tarn.

#OldOrienteeringMaps #LakeDistrict #Maps #Orienteering #WCOC
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3618732

East Monaughty 1980. Clearfelling soon took this forest off the fixture list. I would have spent a lot of time on an EUOC bus to get there. Premarked maps were a well loved luxury at this time.
#OldOrienteeringMaps #Maps #Orienteering #Moray #MoravianOrienteers

www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3249538

Blackford Hill event today on a 1:5,000 map. Here is the 1978 1:15000 map of the area by Andy Curtis
#ESOC #oldorienteeringMaps #Map #Orienteering

Pickering Forest 1980. British Relay Championships. #NorthYorkMoors, #EBOR #Orienteering #Maps #OldOrienteeringMaps

Wrekin 1979. Eastern half of the map which included some very brambly industrial ground on limestone as well as the Uriconian ridge itself. First use was for the Midland Championships. I was on control checking duty and had to climb the thing four times on my patrol. This map was for a use up the map stock badge event. Note the 10m contour interval. #OldOrienteeringMaps #Orienteering #Maps #WrekinOrienteers #Shropshire

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

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

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

Calder Wood, 1979 Robert Bloor. Still in use. #OldOrienteeringMaps, #OrienteeringMaps #Maps #Interlopers #Orienteering

Wharncliffe 1978
#JK individual with M17 course. Lots of rock features in an area often wheeled out by #SYO for big events. #OldOrienteeringMaps #OMaps #Orienteering
2022 version:
www.syo.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#233

www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3813501

Carse of Ardersier 1981. Harvey Map Services
#OldOrienteeringMaps #INVOC #Orienteering Maps

Beecraigs 1977 🎨 B Donaldson
It has seen a few changes and many editions since. Had some good times up there - outdoor ed, biking and orienteering. This was a training day with #EUOC #WestLothian #OldOrienteeringMaps

It's #Scottish6Days Week, so here is Culbin from the World Championships in 1976 and the first ever 6 Days. #Orienteering #OldOrienteeringMaps #OMaps

Pollok Park 1979 - mixing it up with the Heilans and no Burrell. #OldOrienteeringMaps #Omaps #Glasgow

Ogof Ffynnon Ddu Peter Seaward 1978. The legendary gritstone maze in the Swansea Valley. Event held in thick fog which lifted in time to help somebody beat me. #OldOrienteeringMaps #OMaps

"Corstorphin Woods" D Bruce and G Barnett, Heriot Watt 1972. #OldOrienteeringMaps #Edinburgh #OMaps
#Orienteering was very popular in the 1970s and almost every University was active.
As for the spelling - did they run out of room?

Steepcombe, sorry Sheepcombe, #Cotswolds J Parsons 1978 #OldOrienteeringMaps #OMaps

Blaise Castle 1975. A four colour map of a much used area in #Bristol. #OMaps #OldOrienteeringMaps

Black and white maps were still very much a thing in 1977
Banwell (74) and Ammerdown (77) both tiny areas and home to brambles. #Omap #OldOrienteeringMaps