There are a couple of very useful websites I use to help plan rallies.
The first is http://www.geograph.org.uk/browse.php?p=248822
This site shows photos taken in the majority of grid squares across the country and uploaded by anyone who has them. The photos can be extremely useful in finding suitable clues, sorting road junctions, seeing signposts, etc., and getting the general feel for the immediate locality. (Jeremy, no prizes fore guessing why I was checking out this particular grid square. Pity the photographer didn't turn 90 degrees left and snap again...) Warning - you can spend hours wandering through this website, grid square by grid square.
The second is great for finding fords - http://vamp.idlers.org/~jaffa/
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