(see also Nottinghamshire Civil Parishes - names for unnamed areas)

I mentioned in Repairs to Woodsetts CP Boundary that Dinnington St. John’s CP was involved in the same cartographic atrocity within a Woodsetts field that had afflicted Woodsetts CP, and needed repairing for the same reason. It also needed a rename as it had been wrongly called Dinnington St. John’s TC.

Dinnington St. John’s has been given a full, laborious & time-consuming set of nip‘n’tucks in order to convert it from a boundary based on NPE maps to one based on 2016 OS_BoundaryLines. The old parish line was always 10s of metres from true. Some of the lines were 100s of metres from true; only the name in the tags window helped me hold on to the view that I was still dealing with the correct BoundaryLine. I ended up needing to use Letwell CP.gpx, Firbeck CP.gpx + Dinnington St. John’s CP.gpx (watch out for the unescaped apostrophe) downloads.

It’s only a small parish (21.3km) but has a tremendous number of small-scale twists, turns & dog-legs. It had also ended up with a rogue, unused way within the relation due to the earlier atrocity.

This is Dinnington St John’s parish