Try a
navigation
car rally

navigating in Scotland on A DoE expedition

 

 

to complete this rally,

you will need :-

Ordnance Survey Landranger map
number 119
 Buxton, Matlock & Dovedale area,
1 to 50 000 scale

Pen or Pencil

Compass

However
you do not need :-

Car
(you do not even need to leave this room)

 

 

the Kinder plateau

I deliberately chose the Ordnance Survey Landranger map
Buxton, Matlock & Dovedale
when designing this exercise as it's a reasonably commonly held map

The rally will probably take you between 1 & 2 hours to complete

 

 

as an example I have completed the first four answers for you 

Where can you have fun, on the rides ?

Alton Towers

Proceed to village where there ere Rusks ?

Farley

Go via old constellation ?

Old star

Reel to this village, what is there ?

Cotton

Go to blowy dock ?

 

Give a grid reference ?

 

How far is the Trig point as the crow fly’s ?

 

Go to the beachy Sweeps

 

Follow the track to the A 523 where is a high half blink ?

 

Go to Miles Knoll, take a Grid bearing to mountain
Rescue Post ?

 

What is its Altitude ?

 

Go to Ell Bone ?

 

Give a Grid Reference of the Church ?

 

Go to MAIL

 

Name five features marked on a map by symbols here ?

 
This place sounds like a car from Norfolk ?  
Go to cinder birth, what is the Grid Reference of the bus station ?  

 

Dovedale

Dovedale
also on
Ordnance Survey Landranger map
number 119

name the cave

 

Take the main road left, and go past a Cow mountain ?

 

Go to a bend in a trench ?

 

Go to a DGHIYREDIA ?

 

Go past a pile of Pooh ?

 

Where should Poo go ?

 

Give its Grid Reference ?

 

Mouldy Flour ?

 

Pass a hot stream ?

 

Is it working here ?

 

How many chapels are there ?

 

Monarchy of Lilliput ?

 

Wash your rug with key here ?

 

Go to a cute feature ?

 

Taxi, to the top ?

 

Go to where Gordon swears ?

 

Go to the highway mans home

 

What is at Over end ?

 

Shortest distance to plate sit lead ?

 

Using roads

 

Give a reference of the wakey spire ?

 

Go to Coronation Street Ken

 

Give a reference of a television school ?

 

How high is the trig point ?

 

Go to Dickens title ?

 

Marion’s mate ?

 

Is how far ?

 

Value a talk ?

 

Seen a garden ?

 

Go, get, a pudding ?

 

 

don't give up now

how are you getting on ?

only 8 more questions to go

 

What’s in the water ?

 

What water ?

 

Initially Paddington’s gone for a tea ?

 

A deep, dark, murky hole ?

 

It must be cut at the Moment or in a hole ?

 

Where it sounds Boggy

 

Chinese base ?

 

I am here ?

 

 

Number of questions Answered correctly ( maximum 58 )

scroll down for the answers

 

making navigation excercises

no cheating

work out the answers before you scroll down 

route planning

 

 

Where can you have fun, on the rides ?

Alton Towers

Proceed to village where there are Rusks ?

Farley

Go via old constellation ?

Old star

Reel to this village, what is there ?

Cotton,

Go to blowy dock ?

Windy harbour

Give a grid reference ?

065 482

How far is the Trig point as the crow fly’s ?

1.2 Km.

Go to the beachy Sweeps

Broomy shaw

Follow the track to the A 523 where is a high half blink ?

Wink hill

Go to Miles Knoll, take a Grid bearing to mountain Rescue Post ?

57 degrees

What is its Altitude ?

150 metres

Go to Ell Bone ?

Blair

Give a Grid Reference of the Church ?

137 493

Go to MAIL

Ilam

Name five features marked on a map by symbols here ?

Church With tower

(chose any five from these six)

Youth Hostel

 

National Trust

 

Mountain rescue post

 

Telephone

This place sounds like a car from Norfolk ?

Fenny Bentley

Go to cinder birth, what is the Grid Reference of the bus station ?

180 464

Take the main road left, and go past a Cow mountain ?

Bull hill

Go to a bend in a trench ?

Turnditch

Go to a DGHIYREDIA ?

Idridgehay

Go past a pile of Pooh ?

Winney hill

Where should Poo go ?

Sewage works

Give its Grid Reference ?

284 523

Mouldy Flour ?

Millers Green

Pass a hot stream ?

Warm brook

 

it's actually Snowdon summit

how are you doing ?

I will not ask you what summit is this ?

 

 

Is it working here ?

Wirkswarth

How many chapels are there ?

4

Monarchy of Lilliput ?

Guilivers kingdom

Wash your rug with key here ?

Matlock Bath

Go to a cute feature ?

Dimple

Taxi, to the top ?

Upper Hackney

Go to where Gordon swears ?

Flash Dam

Go to the highway mans home

Crob Riding

What is at Over end ?

Wind pump

Shortest distance to plate sit lead ?

Slate pit dale

Using roads

4 and a bit

Give a reference of the wakey spire ?

385 712

Go to Coronation Street Ken

Barlow

Give a reference of a television school ?

314 736

How high is the trig point ?

299 metres

Go to Dickens title ?

Bleak house

Marion’s mate ?

Robin Hood

Is how far ?

2.5 Km.

Value a talk ?

Chatsworth house

Seen a garden ?

Edenso

Go, get, a pudding ?

Bakewell

What’s in the water ?

Ashford

What water ?

River Wye

Initially Paddington’s gone for a tea ?

Toddington

A deep, dark, murky hole ?

Blackwell

It must be cut at the Moment or in a hole ?

Tideswell

Where it sounds Boggy

Wardlow Mires

Chinese base ?

Foolau

I am here ?

Eyam

 

 

 

try the Snowdon Horseshoe
navigation exercise

Irchester country park navigation

do you know your map symbols ?

visualising your location on a map

a few general navigation questions

 

The Snowdon horse shoe

 

for more navigation training ideas visit Nigel's navigation tuition page
for general training ideas visit Nigel Spencer Training page

 

 

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