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Steve Chilton is a committed runner and qualified athletics coach with considerable experience of fell running and a marathon personal best of 2-34-53. He is a long-time member of the Fell Runners Association (FRA). In a long running career he has run in many of the classic fell races, as well as mountain marathons and has also completed the Cuillin Traverse. He worked for 42 years at Middlesex University where he was Lead Academic Developer.

Steve's work has been published extensively, particularly in his roles as Chair of the Society of Cartographers and Chair of the ICA Commission in Neocartography. He is heavily involved in the OpenStreetMap project (osm.org), having co-authored OpenStreetMap:Using and Enhancing the Free Map of the World ...more

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	The Round: In Bob Graham's Footsteps 3.91 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Running Hard: The Story of a Rivalry 4.02 avg rating — 49 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All or Nothing at All: The Life of Billy Bland by Steve Chilton (Goodreads Author), Kilian Jornet (Foreword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's a Hill, Get Over It: Fell Running's History and Characters 3.26 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voices from the Hills: Pioneering women fell and mountain runners by Steve Chilton (Goodreads Author), Jasmin Paris (Foreword) 3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's a Hill, Get Over It: Fell Running's History and Characters 3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Round: In Bob Graham's Footsteps 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walking Keef's Dog & Other Short Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Cartography: a Reader: Celebrating 50 Years of the Society of Cartographers by Steve Chilton (Goodreads Author), Alexander J. Kent 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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It was a real pleasure to be one of the guests on the Studmarks podcast, along with fell legends Scoffer Schofield and Mark Roberts. Our topic was the Bob Graham Round. Host Chris Goldie allowed the conversation to flow over the past, present and future of the BGR. Some wonderful memories were shared by all, including highlights of prepping and completing (in both Scoff and Mark’s case, and suppor

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Journey to Britannia: From the Heart of Rome to Hadrian's Wall, AD 130

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Steve Chilton rated a book liked it The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A lightweight political comedy/thriller. The characters didn't really come alive which made it harder to cope with the unlikely plot twists. The See it, Say it, Sorted 'structure' worked at one level but was overplayed a bit. I found the ending and r ...more
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A good and fulsome review of John and Paul's relationship. It is best when looking deep into the origin of the Lennon-McCartney partnership between 1957 and 1962, and in the breakdown of that relationship and its aftermath. Necessarily in comparison ...more
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A lightweight political comedy/thriller. The characters didn't really come alive which made it harder to cope with the unlikely plot twists. The See it, Say it, Sorted 'structure' worked at one level but was overplayed a bit. I found the ending and r ...more
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I know novels can stretch your sense of reality as much as they like, but this went a bit too far for me. The cats/poo stuff and the dodgy estate agents' machinations were the basis for much of the humour but some of the situations often just too sil ...more
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An absolute masterpiece of story telling. The intertwined lives of the two main characters, a blind French girl and a young German orphan, are gradually brought to a satisfying denouement. The ending was certainly very touching and emotional.
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For a Booker winner I was seriously underwhelmed by Orbital. It seemed like shallow reflections from fairly indistinguishable characters in a spaceship to me. There is no narrative to it, just a spaceship circling the earth, with the imagined thought ...more
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