I am a bit of an Ogilvist, that is I like to follow the roads of John Ogilvy mapped out in 1675 and made into a book, when I was a kid my parents were given the road from York to Lancaster and although we lived quite near the route I always wanted to follow this road but only did years later.

After that I picked up other odd information and compared this with old OS maps on here
www.npemap.org.uk
This is because 1675 was before all the turnpike building but there are some great roads such as the escape from Bristol to Exeter which goes great until you reach the flooded section under the Chew Valley Lake, so go round that and back on course.

There are many examples and they are great country run roads, I print off the old OS map, mark the Ogilvy route as best I can and head off for a drive.

Enjoy guys and gals