I'm considering walking the length of Washpit Brook in Leicester (it's the brook which runs under the footbridge at the end of Church Lane in Knighton) The link below shows it on an out-of-copyright OS map:

http://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/osmap.html?z=14&x=-1.1188888549804688&y=52.6035166819531

It looks like it starts somewhere just outside Oadby. Apart from the name on that map, the only other reference I can find to it online is here:

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66594

I'm contacting other active local mappers to see if anyone wants to join me on a wet walk through an unmapped brook :) I can't promise excitement, but it'll definitely be a different sort of mapping experience. I'm thinking wellies will be required, and there's always the promise of a pub visit afterwards.

I don't have a particular date or time in mind, I thought I'd see if anyone else was interested. If not, I'll do it myself, but I think it could be a fun way to meet local mappers.

I've been wandering around Saltaire recently, and I've noticed that the jitter in the GPS traces seems much worse than in Leicester. The streets in Saltaire are narrower, with long rows of stone terraces, and a poorer view of the sky. I've had to do some 'best fit' ways, or ignoring certain outlying spikes when I know for certain that the road is straight...