Well, I breezed up to Somersham in the nice weather we had here today. I decided that I really ought to go get some exercise since being cooped up with impeding everything else, including work.
I was rather expecting it to just be a small village with a few features to be mapped; I was then going to continue on to Pidley and maybe some of the other villages in the area. If things went really well, I naively thought I might take a look at Needingworth. Hah!
It looks like the town planners in Somersham had other ideas. The village *looked* pretty small one entering from the south; after going a little way down Chatteris Road and surveying all the stuff I found down there, I rather assumed that I had almost everything. Wrong! I found a small residential development to the south first, a fair few roads in there with loads of twiddly little side bits. After covering this, I stopped for a bite to eat, then headed back to the B1050 to continue through the centre of the village. I turned up Feoffees Road and entered a terrifying fractal landscape where every single residential road had offspring. My heart started to sink with every corner that brought another cul-de-sac into view but I pushed on and *finally* got back to where I'd started, having done all the offshoot residential roads in the area.
It took so long surveying all that thaht it was now dark. I don't think there is much more to the place but decided it would be best covered by daylight - as I had a longish trip back to Cambridge I decided to get pedalling and return at a later date to finish the job.
Anyhow, Somersham is very much better than it was before. Most surprisingly I found some B roads to the East and West of the village that weren't on the map yet at all; I should probably be able to do those at some point but it would seem to be a good target for someone with a car available!
Discussion
Cummentu di flint lu 10 October 2008 ê 09:09
Err, the name of the town seems to have changed from "Somersham" to "Somersham (in progress)". Seems like a weird thing to do to me... :-/
Cummentu di Mark Williamson lu 10 October 2008 ê 16:00
> Err, the name of the town seems to have changed from "Somersham" to "Somersham (in
> progress)". Seems like a weird thing to do to me... :-/
I was following the example currently used nearby for suburbs of St Ives / Huntingdon (at one point I think this might have been done for the whole town, before they became more complete). I guess I don't have to do it that way but it makes it clear that the current mapping is (highly) incomplete. Hopefully it won't be in progress for very long, depending on when I next get out there. I'll update the wiki page too.