What3words

Here is a CL owners post put on a thread relating to finding CLs and the usefulness or otherwise of OS grid references in the SD book:-

"I suggested that the Club look at What3Words as a way of identifying the entrances of CLs, or even individual Pitches on Club sites back in 2018 in an email to the head of Sites and Head of Marketing. 

I reminded them of this new service in an email top the CL team in 2019.  

What3Words is a UK company but it has been adopted worldwide (even by the Mongolian Post Office) and by a number of hotels, car sat-nav companies and by many of the UK Emergency Services as a way of identifying an exact (3Mx3M square) location.

It has some drawbacks, but is becoming increasingly widely adopted and a number of CLs are now using it to guide visitors. Including mine.

Ted Howard-Jones
Farm Entrance Location
https://w3w.co/hounded.swinging.collapsed
Cholsey Grange CL - Caravan Site

Curious, because I hadn't heard of I put in my home address, then tried my post code - but in both cases it says No result. That's what comes of living here out on the edge of the moor - we have no mobile phone signal either. A good job Richard our postman knows where we are.

Strange EuroT. I have just had w3w map up, and it’s showing three words for some very remote areas (between Golitha Falls and Bolventor) and every little track I make up River Fowey shows three different words. Seems to work all over moor🤷‍♂️ Maybe you have to pinpoint your actual location on the w3w map, and use the words it gives there, rather than by address or postcode? 

Although of course, if you have no phone signal, you are doomed!

I have put the three words for our home, and Mums home into my phone as a reminder. Our words change if we move into our front room, from the back room, so it’s spot on accuracy. Hope I never have to use them.

You are right. I cracked it.

Knowing exactly where we are I can pinpoint my house using their map and get the crucial three words - but a delivery man from DHL, Yodel, Hermes and all tne others, who doesn't know exactly where we are would only have our address and post code to go by - and couldn't use this method of locating us on a map to find the crucial three words. So do I have to give them the words when I order something? 

Lofts.executive.doghouse 

check that out, a wee bit more than ‘edge of the moor’👍🏻

I mentioned what3words a while back when Corners said he said he did a lot walking in the  middle of nowhere.

Although of course, if you have no phone signal, you are doomed!

 ... but sometimes a text will go with a weaker signal

Of course, in the context of this thread, it would be up to CL owners to advise you of their 3 words, presumably on the clubs website and/or in the SD, preferably both.

No phone signal needed it can be used on the emergency system it’s what makes it genius. It has & will continue to save life, it’s why the emergency services around the world are adopting it.

Not so WN, I found the W3W for ‘Brigholme Farm CL, Gigglewick’ mentioned in the CL section of CT. 

try-smile.lungs.storeroom I’ve chosen a space to set up. From your home to the parking spot. As I said-genius👍🏻