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I’ve made secret discoveries on my doorstep: a year-long journey across my local OS map
17.01.2024 - 12:07 / theguardian.com / Long
There’s a special place near where I live. To get there, you head down the road with all the fly-tipping, go through the motorway underpass, then turn left by the second-hand car garage and the greasy spoon cafe with a spelling mistake in its name. When you reach the factory with the rusting metal pipes and enormous concrete chimney, push through the scraggy bushes opposite and you have arrived.
Blond reedbeds surround you, head high, whispering in the wind. The call of cuckoos sounds like time gone by. In summer, swifts shriek overhead and sand martins swoop over the pools where endangered water voles make their home. Wandering through the marshland is like being transported to a wilder, quieter, more hopeful world. This secret discovery, or one like it, lies on the outskirts of towns across the country, part of the forgotten edge lands that we travellers ignore in favour of more exotic destinations. I spent a year searching for wildness closer to home than ever before – and it was a fascinating journey.
I am lucky enough to have explored many parts of the world. While one or two of my adventures have smug eco-credentials (cycling around the world and crossing oceans by boat, for example), most of my travels have been less environmentally friendly, even damaging to the wild places I love. I wondered if there was a different approach to exploration. I had walked through India and paddled the Yukon, but not visited that local wood by the shopping centre or seen what was at the end of that ordinary-looking street in my town. That seemed daft. It is a relatively modern concoction that adventurous souls need to leap across time zones to quench their curiosity. Maybe the undiscovered country of the nearby could be just as intriguing as Jeddah or Botswana, if only I saw it that way.
During lockdown many of us benefited from exploring nature on our doorsteps, connecting more closely with our locales. But this concept deserves to be more than a temporary compromise before we all jump back on flights to the sunshine. Our society has become disconnected from the wild world around us and I wanted to try to put nearby nature back into my everyday life. I wanted to prove it is possible to get regular small doses of the delights of travelling without having to wait until your summer holiday or the trip of a lifetime.
So I bought the Ordnance Survey map that covered where I live – 20km by 20km of a very ordinary corner of the world on the fringes of a big city in the south of England – and committed to spending a year exploring its modest span. Once a week I visited a single 1km grid square, chosen at random, and delved into the minutiae of every street, hill and warehouse I found. I tried to be enthusiastically
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