Map and GPS things

This page contains downloadable and printable Ordnance Survey maps of parts of the West Pennine Moors North of Horwich, near Bolton, Lancashire, UK.

The Ordnance Survey bitmap data presented here is specifically licensed to be served on this web page (see below for copyright information).

The "GPS waypoint overlaid" versions (see below) contain the same information as the "bare" versions, but they contain marked GPS "waypoints" for:

	most of the landmarks of navigational significance;
	path junctions;
	path start points;
	significant bends in paths;
	many cairns, buildings and summits; etc.

GPS overlaid and bare maps are provided that have grid lines that are 100m apart (rather than the usual 1km apart).

The waypoints the GPS waypoint overlaid maps contain are listed on this page (see below) in plain text format.

The file containing the waypoint data can be uploaded to a variety of types of GPS receiver using an appropriate cable and a program called GPSU, which is the excellent "GPS Utility".

Maps As identified on each of the six maps: "This mapping data [is] licensed from Ordnance Survey (c) Crown Copyright 2002. All rights reserved NC/38574/02". This licence "permit[s] end-users to download and print copies of [these six] bitmap images from [this] web site for their own personal use".
Area	Map with100m gridlines and GPS waypoint data overlaid	Bare map with 100m gridlines	Bare map with no added markings
N_Horwich (combined)	13/6/03	23/6/03	23/6/03	The four sections below combined (needs a good printer e.g. an A3 colour laser printer)
N_Horwich_NE	Revised 13/6/03	Revised 24/11/2	Revised 24/11/2	Belmont down to Winter Hill and Smithills Moor
N_Horwich_SE	Revised 13/6/03	Revised 24/11/2	Revised 24/11/2	Smithills Moor down to Chorley Old Road
N_Horwich_SW	Revised 13/6/03	Revised 24/11/2	Revised 24/11/2	Horwich up to Rivington Pike and Two Lads
N_Horwich_NW	Revised 13/6/03	Revised 24/11/2	Revised 24/11/2	Hordern Stoops down to Rivington Pike
Anglezarke	Revised 13/6/03	Revised 24/11/2	Revised 24/11/2	White Coppice, Anglezarke Moor, down to Yarrow Reservoir
Tockholes	Revised 13/6/03	Revised 24/11/2	Revised 24/11/2	Abbey Village, Tockholes, Roddlesworth, Darwen Tower, Sunnyhurst Woods

GPS Waypoint Data (location IDs and Grid References) GPSU .txt files are plain text files that are read and written by GPS Utility, an excellent program available from here. No claim is made here that this data is accurate or fit for any particular purpose.
main_area.txt Revised: 13/6/03	Although a small file this contains over 400 waypoints (grid references and IDs) for the area north of Horwich, from Smithhills across to White Coppice, and up to Abbey Village, Tockholes and Sunnyhurst Woods. These are printed in the overlaid maps above.
snowdon_horseshoe_170403.txt	Waypoints and two routes (clockwise and anti-clockwise) for the Snowdon Horseshoe. Data acquired on 17 April 2003.

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This page was last edited on 16 September 2006