Linn Park
Google Maps and "kml" files
This web site used to use Google Maps and in particular "kml" files.
A KML file (Keyhole Markup Language) is an XML-based file format used to display geographic data, paths, polygons, and 3D models in map programs,
Open Standard: Originally created by Keyhole Inc. for Google Earth, it is now an official standard maintained by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
A kml file stores:
- Points/Placemarks: Pins for specific locations or addresses.
- Lines/LineStrings: Paths, routes, or trails.
25th October 2026: Google Maps for whom the kml was first invented have now abandoned it.
This web site is in the process of moving to uMAP using StreetMap mapping. Although Google Maps abandonment of KML has been known about the replacement project has been delayed by the web master spending time in hospital with kidney failure. It is known as CardioRenal Syndrome.
Please see here for our progress . . . we are only a few days away. It will be implemented using "iFrames".
In the meanwhile apologies for the "blank maps".
Mushrooms, Toadstools, & Fungi
The very first thing is to quote the Hatted Botanist: " you can always eat anything, but it maybe only once ! ". So be careful, and remember that poison can stick to your fingers, and then if you lick them ... say no more.
Apparently, there are some 15,000 types of fungi which grow in Britain, so there are probably lots more to be found in Linn Park !
Summer 2026
What can we say . . . For the Gents it has not been a good year as the problems associated with getting older emerge . . . as we approach the mega milestone of turning 80. We come from an era when having survived three score years and ten was considered by most as what one could expect.
However, the NHS has provided a remarkable service for which we will always be entirely grateful. And here we are still to tell the story.
The White Cart River
Fossils are interesting to young and old.
Recently we met Stephen Burtt, who kindly sent some photos of Stigmaria Fossils found by his son.
Petition to reverse the closure of the Path below the Castle
The Petition
As a consequence of the almost universal common sense conclusion, a long term park user [that's forty years or more] raised a petition. You can read it here: https://www.change.org/p/reopening-of-entrance-to-linn-park-at-snuffmill-bridge.
By the 25th May 2022, just over 850 people had signed it. As of the 12th of August this had passed the magic one thousand and risen to 1,040 signatures. As at the 4th October 2023 it had reached 1,265. Keeping up the chat has resulted at 10th July 2024 in 1482 signatures. At 19th August 2026, we keep on getting more and more support: Now at 1,583.
PLEASE, if you haven't already, follow the link above and sign it. It takes you to Change.org.
Read more: Petition to reverse the closure of the Path below the Castle
Welcome to the Linn Park Website
Just to let you know about this web site:
- It is run by a group of retirees some in their late seventies, and others who have contributed the Botany and History.
- There are a plethora of other people who have contributed photographs, and other useful information such as old pamphlets and articles.
- The Linn Park Gentlemen's Walking Club is just a group of people who all met whilst out walking - in Linn Park of course.
- They are not associated with any council, or any sponsored group, or . . . it is just "we ourselves and that's it".