NEW LFA MAP & GUIDE
Charnwood Forest
This map is based upon Ordnance Survey open data, with careful selection of information available omitting details of little relevance to walkers. The addition of material locally surveyed by Roy Denney, our Editor shows pubs, tearooms and permissive footpaths many of which are not on the OS map, as well as open access areas. The result is an easy-to-read, uncluttered map showing only what walkers need to see.
We first published a map
and guide to the area in 1904 but Roy instigated a new map a few years ago getting a professional firm to do the underlying cartography. That work was done by Mary Spence who was awarded an MBE for services to cartographic design. The first modern edition won a number of international awards.
This, the third edition of the modem map, has again been updated with Mary’s help. Substantial lottery funding has enabled local infrastructure to be improved as is shown on the map now covering an extended area.
A lottery grant Roiy obtained has allowed us to use the usually blank reverse to create a guide which gives a taste of the geology, history, archaeology, palaeontology, biology, etc and includes some suggested walks covering these topics. One explores the built heritage, and another, watercourses providing wildlife corridors. Others show great vantage points or pockets of apparent isolation and many show the rewilding of areas of industrial dereliction and decline. The walks and accompanying photographs were collated by Roy with help from other members and local walkers.
The maoo and guide is on the market at £6.99 but if members get in touch with our Membership Secretary she can let them have them for £6.oo