LEJOG MAP HELP!

[CHEXTER]

hey this might sound like a bit of a wierd question, but can anyone recomend a good, simple to read map to get me from lands end to john o'groats??????

Thanks

 

[rogersavery]

Take a road atlas apart and just take the pages you need

 

[CHEXTER]

ok cool i didnt know if there was like a big but basic OS map kinda thing?

 

[CHEXTER]

Also, can anyone recommend a book about doing the JOGLE/LEJOG?

 

[snorri]

See the thread started by justonce in this section.

 

[janner]

As the !st reply said + michellen roadmap GB for over al picture

 

[Kirstie]

The OS road tour maps are great (the green ones), but you'll need several to cover the whole country. We started off planning it with a big road atlas , and ended up cutting the pages out and laminating them for each day of the trip. We also used a GPS, but when it failed, the road atlas didn't really have the level of detail required. We would have been better taking the OS road tour maps with us.

 

[wyno70]

As above, just get a road atlas and chop it up to suit. I did manage to find an A5 size road atlas so just took out all the pages I didn't want and then it fitted quite easily and neatly into my back pocket and was almost unnoticeable.

 

[aqaleigh]

bike britain by Paul Salter is a great book for lejog with tips, route maps, elevations, bike shop / campsite / b&b / hotel locations
950 mile route and avoids most major roads
wh smith seem to be about the best price roughly £8
I can highly recommend this book

 

[aqaleigh]

sorry forgot to mention
its 17 days i think - but can obviously be altered to suit as the author gives intermidiate location info roughly every 10 miles aswell as daily start and finish points

 

[Amanda P]

We posted maps of the route we used here. On the road, we used a cut-up road atlas.