Another good turn

I loved the article about map reading in the

Spring issue and excitedly told my daughter the things I’d relearned. When I told her the bit of advice that everything in black on the map can be seen on the ground (apart from place names) she noticed that that’s not completely true. She reminded me that on OS Landranger (1:50,000) maps parish boundaries are marked in black too but are not visible on the ground, and I know this to be true from when her and her sister were doing DofE; her sister had planned their route along a parish boundary but of course there was no path there! Thankfully it was picked up by their assessor at the planning stage, but it would be an easy error to make for a novice map reader.

Helen Watson, by email