Dartmoor 1044 Square Ticking: Visit every one of Dartmoor’s 1044 Ordnance Survey (OS) Squares that are wholly or partly within the Dartmoor National Park and record your progress. On Dartefacts we call ‘Dartmoor 1044’: D1044. This feature is only available to Subscribers. Subscribers also benefit from being able to zoom in to see the full 1:25k OS map details in each Square.
- D1044 Square Tick-List
- Top D1044 Squares: The most visited ‘D1044’ Squares (according to website data)
- Top D1044 Square Tickers: Subscribers listed in order of the number of D1044 Squares they have ‘ticked-off’.
- All D1044 Squares and their Key Dartefacts
- CLICK HERE to Subscribe to Dartefacts and start ‘ticking off’ visited Squares!
How to use D1044:
Clicking on either a D1044 Square mapicon or anywhere inside a grid square on the main ‘D1044 Page’ (or just on a D1044 Square mapicon on the other map pages) provides a pop-up hyperlink label. This label identifies each individual Square by its 4-figure OS ‘SX’ National Grid Reference as well as its number in the list of Dartefact D1044 Squares. Clicking on the hyperlink will display that D1044 Square with the Dartefacts within that Square and the 8 other Squares surrounding it. A magenta selection square makes it clear which D1044 Square is selected.
Some squares, especially around the edges of the National Park Boundary are entirely on private land and in that instance access must be sought from the landowner before visiting. Do not assume that a listed item is legally accessible. No responsibility for trespass, injury or damage to property etc. can be attributed to this project.
Further D1044 Information:
- Subscribers benefit from being able to zoom in to see the full 1:25k OS map details (Subscribe here).
- DarteTabs: You can also scroll through the list of ‘DarteTabs’ below the map to find and select the D1044 square you want to view.
- “Jaunting”: On Dartefacts we also use the Squares as an easy way to navigate and ‘jump’ around the map.
- Search Box: To view the contents of just a particular square, use the Search Box (right hand side of the menu bar). Type in the required Square number in the National Grid Reference (NGR) four-figure format ie. SX6676 (no spaces). This will display the Dartefacts in just that Square. Additionally you can type a series of these four-figure NGRs to display all of those Squares’ Dartefacts at once. This can be useful if planning a walk that visits multiple Squares e.g. SX6676 SX6677 SX6678 SX6679
‘Rules’ of the D1044 Square Ticking ‘Game’:
‘Ticking Off’ visited Squares on Dartefacts is a feature only available to Logged in Subscribers. Subscribers also benefit from being able to zoom in to see the full 1:25k OS map details of each Square (Subscribe here).
“How do you ‘tick-off’ a square area??” There is no hard and fast rule as to how you can claim you have ‘ticked-off’ a square, how you play this game is really up to you. But here are a few possibilities..
Option 1: The Walk Through: Personally I would say a square to be ticked-off when it has been walked through – i.e. you travel either North to South, East to West, North East to South West etc. – you exit a side of the square opposite the one you entered. I don’t think you have to reach or touch the centre (or perhaps you do?)!
Option 2: Visit the Square’s Key Dartefacts: Another possible way of considering a square ‘ticked’ is when you visit the ‘Key Dartefact(s)‘ of that square. This would usually be a Dartefact of particular ‘importance’. For example Square SX 74 80 (Square No. 0857) contains Bowerman’s Nose (which is also the 365 item, J17) and so even though it’s right at the western edge of that square, as it’s the major item in that square a visit to Bowerman’s Nose would, I reckon, constitute the ticking-off of SX 74 80 (Square No. 0857). As Dartefacts develops Square Ticking it will be made clear the ‘Key Dartefact(s)’ of each square.
Option 3: Visit the Centre Point: Another ‘ticking technique’ that I think is particularly valid in the empty north moors is to visit the exact centre of a Square.
But, at the end of the day how you play this game is entirely up to you.
D1044 Acknowledgements:
Peter and Karin Brooks coined the name ‘Dartmoor 1044’. Peter provided many suggestions for this new feature on Dartefacts and used his Excel Spreadsheet skills to provide the data for the Web Developer: Simon Battersby Consulting Ltd. Peter has also supplied a brilliant Excel Doc for ‘ticking off’ Squares to record visits (see Download below).
Simon Battersby Consulting Ltd integrated Peter Brooks’ Square data into Dartefacts and developed the use of .gpx/ kml files and interactivity within Ordnance Survey (OS) Open Layers Maps for Dartefacts (which is used by D1044 and many other Dartefacts’ Classifications). If you need a website I can thoroughly recommend Simon.
Peter Kearney created the GPX OS grid lines and the individual selected OS Squares within this classification and integrated them into the Dartefacts’ Database and OS Open Layers Map displays.
Download Peter Brooks’ D1044 Excel Doc (Subscribers Only):
The above downloadable item (available to Subscribers only) is an Excel Document developed by Peter Brooks. It allows Squares to be ‘ticked-off’ (by adding a 1 into the square visited). This is a brilliant way of keeping track of your visited squares – especially when planning that next Dartmoor adventure. Subscription Users also benefit from being able to zoom in to see the full 1:25k OS map details of each Square (Subscribe here).