{"id":10162,"date":"2024-11-01T14:40:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T14:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/guides\/\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T10:00:58","slug":"running-in-squares-os-map-squares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/guides\/running-in-squares-os-map-squares\/","title":{"rendered":"Running in Squares (OS Map Squares!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<header id=\"block_a028bcb9d9d9cf2f6d5d7c1c9808db04\" class=\"SingleHero skip-lazy default\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"SingleHero__categories\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/activities\/running\/\" class=\"category\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRunning\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/tag\/personalised-maps\/\" class=\"category\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPersonalised Maps\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"SingleHero__title\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRunning in Squares (OS Map Squares!)\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row justify-content-center align-items-center SingleHero__author\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-auto name\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Martin Elcoate\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"SingleHero__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPublished on \t\t\t\t\t\t<time datetime=\"2024-11-01T14:40:47+00:00\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">November 1, 2024<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dot\"><\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t6 min read\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"SingleHero__thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1376\" height=\"917\" src=\"https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/running-in-squares.jpg\" class=\"attachment-hd size-hd wp-post-image\" alt=\"running in map squares\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/running-in-squares.jpg 1376w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/running-in-squares-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/running-in-squares-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/running-in-squares-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1376px) 100vw, 1376px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/header>\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\t<article id=\"block_60f036927ee0a884dcfc70d9bcee5ceb\" class=\"Universal Universal--post c-small default pt-default pb-default mt-none mb-none    \" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"InnerBlocks\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"lead\"><\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-running-in-squares\">Running in Squares<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>If anyone had asked me last year how well I knew my local area, I would have answered \u201cExtremely well\u201d. After all, I\u2019ve lived in the area for 55 years and have a love of the outdoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out I was wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took one map and a book to teach me that lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/getoutside39507958bf.blob.core.windows.net\/blobgetoutside39507958bf\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The turning point started in October 2023 when Alastair Humphreys\u2019 book \u2018Local\u2019 caught my attention. In it, Alastair describes how he spent a year exploring his local map, one kilometer square at a time. I learned that Alastair used a bespoke 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey map as the basis of his exploration. Well that was news. I had no idea how easy it was to purchase such a thing. I went straight onto the Ordnance Survey website, typed in my postcode and it wasn\u2019t long before a 1:25,000 20km x 20km map centred on my home arrived in the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/getoutside39507958bf.blob.core.windows.net\/blobgetoutside39507958bf\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1-576x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1-576x1024.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1-768x1365.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1-864x1536.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1-608x1080.jpeg 608w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m an active member of The Green Runners, a community of runners committed to making changes for a greener future. The idea of exploring my map would be in keeping with our How We Travel pledge to reduce travel carbon emissions. Adventures from the front door are a great way of reducing our carbon footprints. And so I landed on the plan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To run through the 400 1 km squares in a 1:25.000 OS map centered on my home in Topsham, Devon; starting and ending each journey from my front door, no cars or public transport.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn\u2019t sound too hard if you read it quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key to my challenge lay in planning, poring over my map working out efficient routes, working out how I could access each and every 1km square. Turns out that two squares are in the middle of the Exe Estuary, with a further three offshore in the English Channel. Well beyond my swimming abilities, I reduced my target to 395.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exploring my local area took on a whole new dimension in 2024. As I ran I had in mind those straight red grid lines that divided up my map, picturing them stretching across the landscape. My <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.osmaps.com\/custom-made\/\">bespoke paper map<\/a> was reserved for planning at home. While out running, I would use my <a href=\"https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/osmaps\/\">digital OS map<\/a>, watching my position on the map to spot when I had crossed into a new square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And once in that new square I was then on the lookout for a photograph opportunity. I illustrated my adventures by taking an image per square. Square images of course. My adventures took on a new twist as I would try to find different ways to illustrate each new square I crossed on any given run &#8211; a view of the hills, footpaths across fields and along shadowy hollow-ways, close up shots of insects and flowers, pictures of churches and sign posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/getoutside39507958bf.blob.core.windows.net\/blobgetoutside39507958bf\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2-1376x918.jpeg 1376w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The photographs then evolved into a diary in which I would try and capture the essence of the run. A means to capture the conversations with people I met, a record of the wildlife I observed and the history that I researched after the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exploring my map has taken me to places I\u2019d never been to before, despite living here for so long. As an example, I\u2019ve passed a signpost to Sowton Village many times before. But I\u2019ve not been inspired to visit as a nearby industrial estate takes its name from the village, while the village itself sits in a corner of Devon hemmed in by a motorway and dual carriageways. It turns out that Sowton Village is charming with a small church, manor house and farm houses. The pathways that lead through it also provide me with a new way to run north from home up the Clyst Valley. I\u2019ve revisited the village since that first square hunting run and intend to return to explore some permissive footpaths I stumbled upon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I devised additional challenges within my overall challenge to keep things interesting. Afterall, I had soon run through all of the squares around my home. I decided to visit all of the pillar trig points once I\u2019d located all of the small triangles on my map and I took photographs of each and every Devon Wildlife Trust Reserve. I have in mind to run along all of the footpaths in the 20 x 20km boundary. There cannot be many left to run along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/getoutside39507958bf.blob.core.windows.net\/blobgetoutside39507958bf\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-3-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Trig Pillars in Devon\" class=\"wp-image-10185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-3-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-3-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-3-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-3-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-3-1376x918.jpeg 1376w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-3.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you love maps like I do (and my guess is you love maps if you are reading this article) then a challenge similar to mine will help translate your map into the physical landscape. I love nothing more than connecting the landscape, spotting places I\u2019ve visited previously in the distance such as suddenly realising that I\u2019ve crossed a particular field on that far hill on another day out hunting squares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finished my challenge on 17 June having run 1,070km and climbed 14,875m. I exceeded my target and traveled through 399 of the 400 squares (I adapted my rules and allowed myself to take two ferries, one down the estuary and the other along the coast &#8211; I had to run to and from the ferries of course). There remains just one square that I could not reach. My ferry slid passed it, the square just a 100 meters or so off starboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, I\u2019ve not stopped exploring my map. I\u2019ve found new reasons to step out of my front door and explore. Since 17 June, I\u2019ve been traveling around the very edge of my map (in sections &#8211; it would be one very long run otherwise), getting as close to the perimeter thin red grid lines as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve also been filling in my Strava heat map. Strava is an app that records the routes I\u2019ve run and it enables me to produce a map of all of my 2024 activities. This has resulted in a red square of squiggles across my corner of Devon. My desire is to fill in as much of that square as possible with red lines. There\u2019s always more to find. I\u2019m not done yet. My single map has a lot more to give.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"984\" height=\"984\" src=\"https:\/\/getoutside39507958bf.blob.core.windows.net\/blobgetoutside39507958bf\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-4.jpeg\" alt=\"Strava heat map\" class=\"wp-image-10186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-4.jpeg 984w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-4-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-4-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-4-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So why don\u2019t you purchase your own bespoke OS map and see what lies outside of your front door?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/getoutside39507958bf.blob.core.windows.net\/blobgetoutside39507958bf\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Ordnance Survey custom map centred on your home\" class=\"wp-image-10187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5-810x1080.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/osmaps.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-5.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-resources\"><strong>Resources<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Local by Alastair Humphreys <a href=\"https:\/\/alastairhumphreys.com\/local\/\">LOCAL: A Year Exploring a Single Map &#8211; 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