Map Skills

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Course Overview

Course Overview
Discover how to use an ordnance survey map to plan a walk, understand countryside footpaths and rights of way. Practice your skills on a gentle walk. Tutor: Colin Middleton, Saturday 10am-4pm

Open Is this course right for me?

If you would like to learn how to interpret and follow a map.
Prosp Is This Right For Me

Open What will I learn?

To enable learners to plot a walking route on an ordnance survey map. To estimate the time taken to complete the route. To identify map symbols, footpaths, and rights of way. To complete a walk using the map, compass, and route card.
Prosp What Will I Learn

Open How will I learn?

The morning session (10.00am to 1.00pm) will be at the CLMK Learning Centre (CLC), 555 Silbury Boulevard, Central Milton Keynes, MK9 3HL. The Centre is next to the Central library. There is a separate access to the left of the library front entrance. The afternoon session (2.00pm to 4.00pm) will enable you to practise your learning, with support, on a gentle two hour walk in the countryside near Woburn.
Prosp How Will I Learn

Open Will I gain a qualification?

You will not gain a qualification.
Prosp Qualification

Open Next steps

You may wish to join the Advanced Map Skills or another Healh and Wellbeing course.
Prosp Next Steps

Open Please bring

Dependent upon weather conditions, I suggest long sleeves and trousers, suitable footwear (trainers with ankle support or light walking boots) and a light fleece. If rain is forecast, please bring a waterproof top layer. Please bring a small rucksack, if you have one, to carry a bottle of water and a light snack. I will carry a first aid kit and bring a spare rucksack. I do not anticipate any difficulties on the walk but please be aware that it is undertaken at your own risk. All learning resources will be provided but feel free to bring a small notebook. Lunch: You can purchase items in the Centre MK or bring a packed lunch to eat in the CLC, there are tea/coffee facilities nearby. Parking at Woburn will be in the public car park in the centre of the village, opposite the Church (GR 951332.) There is no parking charge, and we can share cars from Milton Keynes if necessary.
Prosp Please Bring
SMC00081
05/09/2026
Format
05/09/2026
6.00 hours per week
1 weeks
£0.00
Central Milton Keynes Learning Centre