It is, however, just too complicated to try and run the old and the new sites in parallel so I've removed all the old pages and will publish the new versions over the next couple of weeks. See here for the current status.

The Edinburgh Appendix, as published, is the first (very minor) output from a major research project to identify and list every observed section used by the MCC during its entire 100+ year history - the records are all available, it's just a matter of (a lot of) time to collate them all. I'd always known that todays Edinburgh Trial is much more like the PreWar MCC Sporting Trial than the PreWar Edinburgh, but I'd never realised that the lineage was quite so strong.

No fewer than six PreWar Sporting Trial hills are still in regular use on the Edinburgh - Bamford, Calton (Taddington Moor), Corkscrew (Jenkins Chapel), Litton, and Putwells 1 and 2. This beats the Exeter, where only four PreWar hills are still in regular use (Fingle, Higher Rill, Meerhay and Simms), and even the Lands End where just five PreWar hills are still observed on the main trial (Beggars Roost, Bluehills 1 and 2, Crackington and Darracott), although this does rise to eight if we count Class 0 hills (Barton Steep and Ruses Mill) and the now un-observed Lynmouth.

At the present moment it looks extremely unlikely that I will have the time for any major additions to the website this winter, although I do intend to keep the current Years pages up to date. This should not, however, stop anyone from submitting interesting material which I shall stash carefully away to add to the ever-growing pile of stuff that I will publish "someday".