2011-04-02 53 -0

Location

In a field near Askham, close to Markham Moore TI (junction of A1 and A57).

Participants

Monty plans to at least travel to one side or other of the field involved.

Plans

On the north side is Hawksley Lane, leading only to ??Hawksley Farm??, and maybe the owners of the field reside there, but there's another row of fields along this side.

On the south (or south west) side of the field is a track that actually does run along the required field-boundary, appears to do a loop around and reconnect with the 'main' road and is also opposite (if not a continuation of) Wood Lane which is a Public Bridleway, so this'll probably be the one first visited for at least a first look.

Neither lane appears to have been travelled by the Google Car, only the Upton Hill one passing through nearby Askham, so a lot of the above is speculation based on on-line overheads and a judicious review of OS maps.

If Monty is setting off from home (Sheffield) at shortly after 10am, which depends a lot on many other factors (including "Why am I still awake and thus writing this at 4:45am?"), he may be in the area for about 11:30 or so, even with bad Saturday traffic. However, as his main reason to be in this graticule today is because of needing to up at Hatfield (east of Doncaster) by 1pm at the latest, this trip may be deferred until late afternoon, if time and daylight still permits. If there's anyone else in the area, you're welcome to make your own way in your own time and maybe there will be a multi-person meet, or maybe not.

Access to the spot will depend upon conditions on the day. Without a GPS there's less value to actually tramping to an approximation of the exact spot, which may also be dependant upon the state of the field (e.g. not currently under crop) and opportunity to gain permission of some kind, so it's debatable whether this will ever become a Coordinates Reached expedition, but worth a try.

Perhaps if one can actually throw a stone to within a gnat's minim of the spot (gonna be hard, all evidence suggests it's on an uphill rise from the southern hedge boundary) it'll be scored as a hit, although Monty rejected that logic (and/or didn't think he could throw far enough) when it came to 2011-03-27 53 -1, the previous weekend... :)