Welcome to the site Pauldf.
Delemere should be a good meet up, don't forget to post in that thread to tell Goose you're coming.
Delemere should be a good meet up, don't forget to post in that thread to tell Goose you're coming.
Northern Bushmoot
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As a newbie to bushcraft and a non driver and at the moment unemployed and straped for cash and living about 15 minutes from delamere i think you can guess i would be in great favour of this
Fred, if Yorks/Lancs is far South, then what is South Wales or Buckinghamshire.
We have to start somewhere, if we can get a Northern Moot going then we can see about a Scottish Moot.
I am glad to see there is a fair bit of interest in my suggestion and as Wayland says come along to the meet on 20-22 April in Delamere forest and see what you think of the site.
We have to start somewhere, if we can get a Northern Moot going then we can see about a Scottish Moot.
I am glad to see there is a fair bit of interest in my suggestion and as Wayland says come along to the meet on 20-22 April in Delamere forest and see what you think of the site.
We're looking into a North Moot later in the year, it will be after the Summer Moot in South Wales
I'd love to go to a big bushmoot ( somewhere) North of Shap.
As others have said from the north though how far north is north. I'd love to go to the Delamere forest meet but its closer to deepest Kent or Portsmouth (by a hundred miles) than it is to me and its down as a NW meet
So I'm not going to travel all that way unless its for the best part of a week
As others have said from the north though how far north is north. I'd love to go to the Delamere forest meet but its closer to deepest Kent or Portsmouth (by a hundred miles) than it is to me and its down as a NW meet
So I'm not going to travel all that way unless its for the best part of a week
I think it is a case of not pleasing all of the people all of the time!
I have been to a moot at Merthyr Mawr and it was excellent, we managed to fit it into a family holiday as we went to the Cornwall and the New Forest. I travelled up to a Scottish meet and it was worth the long journey but I couldn't really attend all the Scottish meets because of cost and time constraints.
If there are other venues that you know about that would be suitable for a moot post some details, Forest Camp at Delamere has been mentioned a few times due to a few of us around the North West (of England) being keen on getting a Moot local to us, but I don't mind travelling a reasonable distance or even a longish distance on occasion. The Lake district would be better for Scottish members but may take it out of the viable area for some of the Southern members. I know that the area around Delamere is well served by the motorway network so travel is easier and quicker. The big distances are pretty quick by M-way but it took a while to get to Loch Achray over the relatively short distance once leaving the Motorway. We have had people at the NW meets from Scotland and Dartmoor, and they come back a second time so it can't have been that bad!
I have been to a moot at Merthyr Mawr and it was excellent, we managed to fit it into a family holiday as we went to the Cornwall and the New Forest. I travelled up to a Scottish meet and it was worth the long journey but I couldn't really attend all the Scottish meets because of cost and time constraints.
If there are other venues that you know about that would be suitable for a moot post some details, Forest Camp at Delamere has been mentioned a few times due to a few of us around the North West (of England) being keen on getting a Moot local to us, but I don't mind travelling a reasonable distance or even a longish distance on occasion. The Lake district would be better for Scottish members but may take it out of the viable area for some of the Southern members. I know that the area around Delamere is well served by the motorway network so travel is easier and quicker. The big distances are pretty quick by M-way but it took a while to get to Loch Achray over the relatively short distance once leaving the Motorway. We have had people at the NW meets from Scotland and Dartmoor, and they come back a second time so it can't have been that bad!
I tend to flick between the Scottish meets and the NW meets.
I tried to organize the first NW meet in the Lake District but could only find a commercial campsite which wasn't much good. The site at Delamere is just so stunning it blows anything I've found in the Lakes out of the water.
Certainly most of the people in our area are prepared to travel North but it does stretch things for the Southern membership.
It's an interesting exercise to put a pair of dividers on a map of the British Isles to try and work ot where the centre is.
If we include Ireland and Norfolk the centre is the Isle of Man... :11doh:
If it's just main land it's the South Lake District.
If you do it by population centres its between Manchester and Sheffield.
I think North meet is perhaps a misnomer for Delemere, but It's certainly well situated for a majority of the country.
It is also well served by the motorway network.
I tried to organize the first NW meet in the Lake District but could only find a commercial campsite which wasn't much good. The site at Delamere is just so stunning it blows anything I've found in the Lakes out of the water.
Certainly most of the people in our area are prepared to travel North but it does stretch things for the Southern membership.
It's an interesting exercise to put a pair of dividers on a map of the British Isles to try and work ot where the centre is.
If we include Ireland and Norfolk the centre is the Isle of Man... :11doh:
If it's just main land it's the South Lake District.
If you do it by population centres its between Manchester and Sheffield.
I think North meet is perhaps a misnomer for Delemere, but It's certainly well situated for a majority of the country.
It is also well served by the motorway network.
I like the idea of a Northern Moot. It means that I can meet people that I have corresponded with over quite a time on this site, also my children can make long distance friends, who are unlikely to visit Buckinghamshire (although they would be very welcome)
It is not a busmans holiday, for me either, as I do not have to worry about the toilets being clean and accidents etc! This is similar to the superb Merthyr Mawr Summer Moot, I can dip in and out at my leisure. I spent two whole days exploring South West Wales on the journeys to and from MM in that wonderful weather that prevailed then.
I have no idea where Delamere Forest is so that too is a challenge as it means a new set of maps to purchase and investigate along with routes in and out of the area to explore.
So all in all YES to the Northern Moot from a southener!
Swyn.
It is not a busmans holiday, for me either, as I do not have to worry about the toilets being clean and accidents etc! This is similar to the superb Merthyr Mawr Summer Moot, I can dip in and out at my leisure. I spent two whole days exploring South West Wales on the journeys to and from MM in that wonderful weather that prevailed then.
I have no idea where Delamere Forest is so that too is a challenge as it means a new set of maps to purchase and investigate along with routes in and out of the area to explore.
So all in all YES to the Northern Moot from a southener!
Swyn.
There goes the neighbourhood!Spikey DaPikey said:Im moving to Liverpool on friday, so i've voted yes
Goose said:There goes the neighbourhood!
Calm down calm down !!
Wayland, as soon as i have transport again, it would be an honour
Wayland said:I'm sure we could organize a lift...
Already had an offer
I'll let you all know nearer the time
Does anyone know if there has been any progress with a Northern Bushmoot? I m sure there would be quite a few of us prepared to offer help to organise it. Everything seems to have gone quiet.
I suspect nothing will happen until Tony has had a chance to look at the site.
How about having another meet and inviting him?
How about having another meet and inviting him?
Sounds like a good idea. Mind you Goose invited Tony's admin bloke, Timon, to the last meet.
Goooooooose!
Goooooooose!
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