Keith Lilley
@profkdlilley.bsky.social
Academic geographer on a long journey. Coventry kid, washed up on Ireland's shore. Interests in bench marks, industrial archaeology, maps and mapping, new towns, landscape histories, medieval stuff, pottering about on my bike, being outdoors 🚵
Our new Maps & Memories project this week has a guided walk following in the footsteps of OS surveyors of 200 years ago 😍 with @nationaltrust.org.uk 👇
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Our new Maps & Memories project this week has a guided walk following in the footsteps of OS surveyors of 200 years ago 😍 with @nationaltrust.org.uk 👇
Shocking, how on earth did this happen, someone locally must have seen what was going on, it's a field by the A34, with no obvious easy vehicle access
November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Shocking, how on earth did this happen, someone locally must have seen what was going on, it's a field by the A34, with no obvious easy vehicle access
OTD OMD played the Odeon in Birmingham, best band and their best album, too young to be able to go back in 1981, but I made up for it thirty years later 👍
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
OTD OMD played the Odeon in Birmingham, best band and their best album, too young to be able to go back in 1981, but I made up for it thirty years later 👍
Great workshop today @historicalstudies.bsky.social 👍 continues Friday 👇
November 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Great workshop today @historicalstudies.bsky.social 👍 continues Friday 👇
Heading to the north coast tomorrow for this public talk in Coleraine 👍
October 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Heading to the north coast tomorrow for this public talk in Coleraine 👍
Doing a bit for our local cycle campaign group, @andccg.bsky.social dodging the showers
October 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Doing a bit for our local cycle campaign group, @andccg.bsky.social dodging the showers
Ever wondered what lies beneath the trig stations marked on historic OS 6" maps? These little clay tiles with a triangle, just like the symbol on the map
October 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Ever wondered what lies beneath the trig stations marked on historic OS 6" maps? These little clay tiles with a triangle, just like the symbol on the map
Sometimes you've just gotta get out
October 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sometimes you've just gotta get out
Sunday morning 🙄
October 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Sunday morning 🙄
Slieve-na-Aura/Sliabh an Earra, a short but steep ride this afternoon, fantastic views across to Scotland, and what looks like some Ordnance Survey archaeology on the summit, possibly the remains of a hut, or a wall built to protect a tent for the survey team
October 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Slieve-na-Aura/Sliabh an Earra, a short but steep ride this afternoon, fantastic views across to Scotland, and what looks like some Ordnance Survey archaeology on the summit, possibly the remains of a hut, or a wall built to protect a tent for the survey team
Next stop Coleraine, looking forward to talking on "Anglo-Norman towns and townlands" at the end of the month, Portrush will feature and this intriguing map www.nifhs.org/events/a-jou...
October 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Next stop Coleraine, looking forward to talking on "Anglo-Norman towns and townlands" at the end of the month, Portrush will feature and this intriguing map www.nifhs.org/events/a-jou...
Oh yes, more maps, another public talk this time with Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, Wednesday evening all welcome 👍
www.belfastsociety.org/page-2/
www.belfastsociety.org/page-2/
October 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Oh yes, more maps, another public talk this time with Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, Wednesday evening all welcome 👍
www.belfastsociety.org/page-2/
www.belfastsociety.org/page-2/
All set for my upcoming @icomos.bsky.social Ireland talk on our Anglo-Norman urban heritage 👍
October 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
All set for my upcoming @icomos.bsky.social Ireland talk on our Anglo-Norman urban heritage 👍
Upcoming 😍 looking forward to it!
October 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Upcoming 😍 looking forward to it!
More musings on the morphologies of our historic towns, Antrim on the OS six inch first edition, showing a neat rectangle of plots but High Street slewed across them, curious 🤔
Image @natlibscot.bsky.social
Image @natlibscot.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
More musings on the morphologies of our historic towns, Antrim on the OS six inch first edition, showing a neat rectangle of plots but High Street slewed across them, curious 🤔
Image @natlibscot.bsky.social
Image @natlibscot.bsky.social
Morning spent doing a recce for our first year Human Geography field trip, this year to Tollymore, on landscape and power 👍
September 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Morning spent doing a recce for our first year Human Geography field trip, this year to Tollymore, on landscape and power 👍
In between the usual start of semester stuff -- VLEs, enrollments, lectures etc etc! 🤔 -- for a bit of light relief some proper old school historical geography, tracking down and mapping landholdings of the Earldom of Ulster 🤓
September 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
In between the usual start of semester stuff -- VLEs, enrollments, lectures etc etc! 🤔 -- for a bit of light relief some proper old school historical geography, tracking down and mapping landholdings of the Earldom of Ulster 🤓
Wind, rain, mud, bliss
September 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Wind, rain, mud, bliss
If only all off road cycle infrastructure was like this! The trail from Riccall to York along the former east coast main line, hard to believe it cycling along in the peace and quiet away from roads 😍
September 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If only all off road cycle infrastructure was like this! The trail from Riccall to York along the former east coast main line, hard to believe it cycling along in the peace and quiet away from roads 😍
Dodging the showers at York
September 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Dodging the showers at York
Sunny September morning and the start of another new academic year, @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social looking good
September 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Sunny September morning and the start of another new academic year, @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social looking good