Hi Folks,

Just got back from Chester, where I have bought what I think is a cracking bit of kit, from Argos, of all places! Cheapo rucksack, with a little stool attached!

Would never normally wear owt like that on my bike, but how useful for sitting trackside? Butties, camera, radio, flask (only a couple of) cans, and somewhere to plonk your backside!! £11.47!

Previously my top bit of kit would have been my little 'monocular' that takes up no space at all, but is just as good as a small pair of binoculars - again less than twenty quid!

Anybody else got a 'must have' bit of kit that they would not TT without?

With thanks to SILJA

This is a MUST

Sources:
Andrew Reid's Virtual Isle of Man.
Bob Holliday's book Racing Around the Island.
Isle Of Man TT Official Site.
Members of this forum.
Ray Knight's  book TT Riders Guide.
TT Course Incident Management Green Book 2007.
Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh. (The Manx Society.)

Andrew Reid's Virtual Isle of Man. 360° Panoramic Views.
http://www.virtualiom.com/tt

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The red figures shows TT Course place names with their approximate milage from the start. Mile marks here are measured from the start line which means that they are not always at the same spot as the milestones are in reality! Some milestones along the course are, for example, measured from the old capital Castletown and their placings has nothing with the TT Course to do.

HERE IS THE LIST OF NAMES FROM START TO FINISH!

Start And Finish Line (Grandstand) 0/37.73 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/47/100/1
(Grandstand in Douglas, Manx: Doolish which means Black Water. Another explanation of the name Douglas is that the first part comes from the River Dhoo and the second part from River Glass, hence Douglas. Douglas is as well called Dubh Lios, which means Black Lios. Not shure which is correct. At the clock on the scoreboard is a commemoration of Stanley Woods, 10 times winner of TT-races.)
Glencrutchery Road (Glen means narrow valley. Glencrutchery is said to mean the ”The Road of Harper's Glen”, but this is doubtful according to some sources.)
Noble's Park (The park was given to Douglas Corporation by the Noble Trustees
in April 1909.)
St. Andrew's Church
St Ninian's 0.4 (Slight left hander. St Ninian brought Christianity to the island in the 5th century.)
Bray Hill 0.6 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/40/100/1
(Slight right hander at the bottom. In times gone by, was known as "Siberia".)
Ago's Leap (Giacomo Agostini, 15 times world champion, 10 times TT winner.)
Selborne Drive Junction 0.9
1st Mile mark (According to logs from on board computers at Ian Lougher’s bikes from 2006, a 600 cc has full throttle at 75 % of a lap. On a 1000 cc it’s only 15 %.)
Alexander Drive Junction (Woodlands)
Quarter Bridge 1.3 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/85/100/1
(Right hander. Also known as ”Bridge of the Quarterlands.” Here is a pub, Quarter Bridge Arms. The boundary between the quarterlands of Ballabrooie or River Bridge Farm and Ballaquayle, in the Treen of Douglas. This bridge spans the River Glass, which is here the boundary between the parishes of Kirk Braddan and Kirk Conchan.)
Port-e-Chee meadow wall
Jubilee Oak
Braddan Bridge 1.8 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/78/100/1
(S-bend left-right. There were ten Irish saints named Brenainn. The form Braddan into which Brenainn developed in Mann, took place at an early date.)
2nd
(Kirby Garden Center.)
Snugborough 2.5 (Sweeping left. English: "snug borough," where the latter element is used to denote a farm.)
Union Mills http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/86/100/1
Railway Inn 2.6 (Slight right hander. Here is a pub close to the junction Lhergy Cripperty Cronk Road.)   
Strang Road 2.7 (Post office used to be the home of pop group the Bee Gees.)
Union Mills Garage
Union Mills Church
Trollaby Lane (Scandinavian: Trolla-byr, which may mean "the farm of the trolls" or "Trolli’s farm" personal name.)
3rd
Ballahutchin 3 (Top of called Ballafreer 3.4, "Freer's homestead", name from the house there.
Balla means place, farm or home of. Ballahutchin means "Hutchin’s farm.")
Elm Bank
Glen Lough Campsite 3.5 (Manx: Glion logh, "lake glen".)
Ballagarey 3.8 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/76/100/1
(Right hander. Garey means garden or shrubbery. Manx: Ballalhergy Balley ny liargee, "farm of the slope." Could mean in Manx, Bailey garee, ”river thicket farm” as well. Often named “Ballascary”.)
4th
Glen Darragh Road 4.1
Glen Vine 4.3
Marown Church (St Runius Church.)
Twisted Chimneys
Crosby Church Hall    
Crosby http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/80/100/1
(Manx: Balley Ny Croshey. Left hander first that leads in to Crosby. David Jefferies crashed here in practice and was killed 2003.)
Crosby Cross Roads 4.7
Crosby Hotel and Pub 4.8
5th
Wagon and Horses 5.2 (Half Way House. Private villa now. Used to be a pub.)
The Highlander 5.5 (Used to be a pub.)
Greeba Veranda (Fern Bank.)
Pear Tree Cottage 5.9
Greeba Castle 5.9 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/83/100/1
(Left followed of a right.)
6th
Appledene 6.3 (Slight left-right.)
Cronk Dhoo (Doo) Farm (Cronk means hill and Cronk Doo "black hill".)
Greeba Young Men’s Hall
Greeba Bridge 6.7 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/82/100/1
(Left hander.)
The Hawthorn 6.9 (A pub.)
Cronkbreck Farm (Means "speckled hill farm". Proposal should be renamed Harold's or Harold Leese's as a tribute to one of the most hospitable landowners on the whole of the course.)
7th
Gorse Lea Corner 7 (Right hander.)
Ballagarraghyn 7.5 Bridge and Farm. (”Dorgan or O'Dorgan's farm” (Irish: O'Dorcháin), lost surname.
The metamorphosis of Dorgan or Doraughan into Garraghyn. Used to be a hump-backed bridge.)
Ballacraine 7.7 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/75/100/1
(Right hander. ”Craine's farm.” Used to be a pub.
That was the pub that George Formby crashed into in the movie ”No Limit”.)
Ballaspur 7.9 (Left hander. Milky’s, Richard Quayle's, crash. Means “Pointed Rock Farm”.)
8th
Ballig (Means "farm of the hollow".)
Ballig Bridge 8.2 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/77/100/1
(Over the river Neb. Here was a jump quite equal with Ballaugh Bridge in the early days. The bridge was widened, straightened and flattened in 1936.)
Doran's Bend 8.3 (Hard left hander. Bill Doran twice second in TT races in the 1940s and 50s.
He spilled here and broke a leg at practice 1952.)
Hope Corner
Rocky Face (Right hander.)
Laurel Bank 1 8.6 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/84/100/1
(Left hander. Name comes from the laurel bushes that used to grow here.)
Laurel Bank Cottage
Laurel Bank 2 (Hard right hander.)
Glen Mooar Mill 8.9
9th
Glen Mooar Garage (Means "great glen garage".)
Black Dub 9.1 (Glen Mooar) (Left-right. Refers to the bog. If you look over the bank to the left of the start of the right hander you will see the small bog or "dub" and it is black. Moar means large or big and Dub refers to the bog.)
The Vaaish Moar 9.2 (Right hander. The Vaaish is a small but prominent plantation of 17 hectares on a very steep bank overlooking Glen Helen. It was first planted in 1935 and then again in 1965 with 2.8 hectares being restocked in 1988. The main species in this plantation are Japanese Larch, Scots Pine, Lodgepole Pine and Corsican Pine.)
Quarter Way Post 9.4
Glen Helen 1 9.6 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/81/100/1
(Section starts with two lefts, and then a right. Name comes from the daughter in a family that used to live here in the nineteenth century.)
Glen Helen 2
Glen Helen Pub and Hotel (Left hander after the pub.)
Sarah's Cottage 9.8 (Right hander. The  lady who lived there was known as Sarah Corlett. In a rainy Senior 1965 both Mike Hailwood and Giacomo  Agostini slid off here on their MV fours. Mike managed to finish as a winner but Ago had to retire.)
Creg Willey's Hill 9.9 (Manx: Creg Willeys Syl, Rock of Willey Sylvester. Creg means rock.)
10th
Lambfell Moar 10.1(Double S-bends. Scandinavian: Lamb: lamm, fell: fjall. Lamb's Mountain.)
Cronk-y-Voddy Straight http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/90/100/1
(Cronk-y-voddee. ”Hill of the dog.”)
Cronk-y-Voddy (Sartfell) Crossroads. 10.6 (Scandinavian for Sartfell: Svartfjall, "Black mountain."
Little London is sometimes mentioned here as well.)
11th (Two sweeping right handers.)
Drinkwater's Bend 11.5 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/91/100/1
(Sweeping left hander. Ben Drinkwater crashed here and was killed in the Junior TT June 13th 1949.)
Handley's 11.8 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/92/100/1
(Left-right hander. Walter Handley, 4 times TT winner in the 1920s and 30s. Dead in World War 1942 in a flight accident. Bend named after he came unstuck here 1932 when trying to catch the two works Nortons ahead of him in the Senior. Handley's Cottage is known as Ballameanagh: Middle Farm. After Handley's is a left-right-left section before the jump at Ballaskyr Farm and on to Barregarrow. The last of these 3 corners is sometimes called Shughlaige Bridge. Probably a locative form of Manx shelg (Irish sealg) ”hunting, or the chase,” and indicating the place where the huntsmen met.)
12th
Ballaskyr Bridge 12.2 (Sweeping left hander. Ballaskyr means "homestead of the craftsmen".)
Top of Barregarrow (Crossroads) 12.5 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/88/100/1
(Slight right hander. Manx: Bayr garroo, ”rough road”. Comes from Baaregaroo.)
Barregarrow Hill (Left hander at chapel.)
Bottom of Barregarrow 13.1 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/89/100/1
(Left hander. The on board computer measures 13.1 miles to this spot from the start.)
Cammall Farm (Scandinavian: Kambafjall, ridge fell or hill.)
13th (Long left hander.)
Cronk Urleigh 13.5 (The double right hander first in the section downhill past Cronk Urleigh farm.
Means probably "the hill or ridge of slaughter". Other sources says ”Eagle Hill”.)
Westwood Cottage 13.6 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/95/100/1
(The left hander that is the second bend in the section.
Spanish rider Santiago Herrero was killed in a crash here 1970.)
Brake Leg (Just before the dip leading on to the straight for Douglas Road Corner.)
14th
Douglas Road Corner 14.3 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/31/100/1
(Right hander, off camber. Kirk Michael Corner. At the old St. John’s circuit this was a hairpin left and then the coast road to Peel.)
Mitre Hotel and Pub 14.4
Kirk Michael 14.5 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/93/100/1
(Manx: Balley Keeill Vaayl. Kirk comes from Scandinavian kyrka: church.)
Whitehouse Park
Cooper's Close (Name of road or alley that probably isn´t connected to racing. Maybe there was a making of barrels in the early days. Another proposal, that doesn´t seem likely, is related to John Cooper who raced in the 60s and 70s.)
15th
The Old Vicarage Museum or Penny Bridge Stables
(Now museum for Classic Bike Collection.)
Orrisdale South 15.2 (Orrisdale in Manx Gaelic probably Eyrarstalir, ”gravelly, or sandy, bank farm.”)
Birkin's Bends 15.3 (Archie Birkin crashed and was killed here 1927.)
Rhencullen 15.4 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/94/100/1
(Right hander. Rhencullin means ”holly ridge”.)
Rose Cottage (Private residence.)
Lyndhurst Junction
Bishopscourt 15.7 (The residence of the Bishop.)
16th
Orrisdale North 16
Dub Cottage (Slight left-right-left.)
Alpine Cottage 16.5 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/87/100/1
(Slight left-right hander.)
Ballacobb 16.8 (Slight left-right. Same spot as Brough Jairg Bends. Means The See Through Bends.)
Picasso (Same spot as the last right at Ballacobb.
New name on the sweeping right hander before Ballaugh after the police painting of the road surface.)
17th
Ballaugh Bridge 17.2 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/25/100/1
(Slight left-right-left. Here is Raven, a pub. Manx: Balley ny loghey, ”homestead of the lake.” As well Balla Lough: ”Lake Farm Bridge”. Opposite The Raven there is a commemoration of pre-war, BMW  rider Karl Gall who crashed here 1939. There is a small plaque on a gatepost.)
Gwen's, Coan Bulgh 17.5 (Slight right. Gwen Crellin, “The Lady in White” used to live here. The nick name given by Giacomo Agostini. She was marshalling for about 40 years and died at age 89 in December 2006).
Ballacrye Bend (Slight left. McCray or Cry's farm.)
Ballacrye Jump 17.9
18th
Wildlife Park (Right hander.)
Gob-y–Volley (Gob-y-Volley is opposite the Wildlife Park. A piece of land. It consists of 31 hectares with fertile lower slopes and a productive north facing woodland. The name Gob-y-Volley comes from the Gaelic for “point/bluff of the pass”. Very appropriate as it forms the western entrance to Sulby Glen. Some sources says it means something similar to ”the right and left sweep”.)
Quarry Bends 18.6 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/55/100/1
(Left-right-left.)
Ballavolley Bends (End of Quarry Bends. On the hill on right above is IoM forestry board, now DAFF, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.)
Half Way Post 18.9
19th
Sulby Crossroads 19.3 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/58/100/1
(Sulby Glen. Here is a pub at Sulby hotel. The name of the village of Sulby or Sõlabyr "Soli's estate" reflects the Scandinavian influence in Isle of Man place-names.)
Sulby Straight (Not a bend but often mentioned. Top speeds here are about 320 km/h or nearly 200 m.p.h. measured with on board computers. An ex-racer says that when you're travelling at nearly 200 m.p.h. along the straight, the slight kink in the road just over halfway along is DEFINITELY A BEND!!)
Sulby (One source says: The highest known speed at the course, so far, is measured with an on board computer. At practice 2006, Bruce Anstey reached over 206 m.p.h. at the Sulby Straight on a TAS Suzuki 1000 cc GSXR. Other sources say: The 206 m.p.h figure came from the data logging of Bruce's bike but the figure is not 100% accurate. Reason why should be that the data-logging equipment took a false reading over the bumps. The speed trap in the road at Sulby is about 99% accurate however, and the fastest rider through that to date is Ian Hutchinson at 196 m.p.h. in 2007. There is a bit more road left after the speed trap before the riders slow for Sulby Bridge so the 200 m.p.h. figure is probably not too far away.)
20th
Sulby Bridge 20.1 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/57/100/1
(Right hander.)
Ginger Hall 20.3 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/43/100/1
(Left hander. Here is a pub.)
Kerrowmoar 1 20.6 (Left-right-left section. Ancient Kerroo Moore: Great Quarterland.)
Kerrowmoar 2
Kerrowmoar 3
(After Kerrowmoar as you get to Glen Duff, there's a road on the left by the old bridge. This road is called Bayr-ny-Hayrey (The Road of the Ayre.) The best pronunciation from a local is "Ben-a-Hairaa".)
21st
Glen Duff, Bernaharra Road 21.2 (Slight left-right. Manx: Glion doo, Irish: Gleann dubh) ”black or dark glen”.)
Department of Transport Yard (Commonly known as Glen Duff Depot.)
Glen Tramman 21.5 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/44/100/1
(Right hander followed by a left. The Water Through or Irish: Gleann na d-troman,"the glen of the elder or trammon trees.")
Churchtown 21.8 (Fast right hander. Lezayre is a parish that spans a quite large area and it starts here. It spans not only the TT course.)
22nd
Lezayre Church 22.2 (Left hander. Lezayre War Memorial and Church and Ballakillingon Farm opposite the road. Manx for Ballakillingon: Balley keeill Ingan, farm of (St.) Fingan's church.)
Conker Fields (Conkerfields extends between the war memorial at Churchtown through to the Caravan. The K is part of the Conkerfields section, as is the Caravan.)
The K (Left kink. The K is painted on a tree on the left, probably to warn riders för a prominent kerbstone.)
The Caravan (The caravan was there for years and has now been replaced by a wooden shed.)
The Bottom Of Sky Hill
Pinfold (Milntown) Cottage 22.8 (Right-left.)
Glen Auldyn Bridge 23 (Milntown Bridge. Milntown is "farm of the mill". Scandinavian for Auldyn or Aldyn : Alptardalr, "swan's glen".)
23rd (This is a virtual milestone measured with on board computer.)
Ramsey (Manx: Rhumsaa.) 
Gardener's Lane Junction 23.2 (Milntown is an area on the inside of the course opposite Gardener's Lane. Lezayre Road starts here and ends in centre Ramsey.)
23rd (This is the real mile mark.)
Scoolhouse/Crossag's Lane 23.4 (Left hander.)
Parliament Square 23.8 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/54/100/1
(Right hander. Here are The Swan and Central Hotel, two pubs. Lowest point of the course. At sea level.)
Raymotors
Queen's Pier Road
Bus Station (Just before Cruickshank's down the road is called The Corry after the Coronation Park on the right.)
24th (This is a virtual milestone measured with on board computer.)
Cruickshank's 24 (Right hander. House is called Cronk Brae. Deemster Cruickshank lived in what is now called May Hill House (or Parretts house) formerly Cronk Brae. He owned the surrounding land and permitted the races to cross his land by opening the gated road. Deemster Cruickshank died sometime during world war one years. A Mr. Teare  who was a Ramsey MHK bought the property. When the races resumed after the war, Mr. Teare requested a payment from the organisers for the use of his land which was rejected. So for a couple of years there was a detour after Parliament Square, the course turned left into Albert Road and then right into Tower Road rejoining the present course, via Parsonage Road, at the foot of May Hill. Right on the point of the wall of Cronk Brae just before the bricked up gate way is the sign on wall MAY HILL, you wont see it as the bales cover it while racing is on. Cronk Brae may well still be on the wall by the bricked up gate but the new owners have renamed the house May Hill House, there is a name plaque on the other gateway to that effect.)
May Hill 24.1 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/52/100/1
(Slight right hander. May Hill extends over the brow of the hill and all the way along the straight. 80 yards up is "The Phone Box at the end of Glen Elfin Road" where Gene McDonnell's bike ended up stuck in when he fell of at Cruickshank's 1986. Half way up May Hill is what is called Miss Carr's after the lady who lived there.)
White Gates 24.2 (Left hander. Named after two white gates that were at the end of Claughbane Road straight ahead. The gate posts are still there. The 24th Milestone was actually located on White Gates Corner, but has been conspicuous by it's absence in recent years.)
24th (This is the real mile mark. 10 feet up in the air by the entrance to Barrule Park, 20 yards after White Gates.)
Stella Maris 24.3 (Right hander. Private Villa.)
Ramsey Hairpin 24.5 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/56/100/1
(Hard left hander.)
Waterworks 1 24.8 (Right hander.)
Waterworks 2 24.9 (Right hander.)
Tower Bends 25 (Right-left. Tar Bend or Bends? Tower Farm Bend or Bends?
Named after the Albert Tower (or Memorial) which stands above them. Built to  commemorate the visit to Ramsey of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, September the 20th 1847. Albert Tower is about half a mile along the track (on the inside of the course) from Tower Bends. It is not really on the course.)
25th
Gooseneck 25.4 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/45/100/1
(Right hander.)
Centenary Bends (Proposal for two “nameless” fast left corners between Gooseneck and Joey's.
Another proposal for the same bends is Ian Lougher's.)
26th Joey's http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/50/100/1
(Right hander. Joey Dunlop, 26 times TT winner, 3 hat-tricks 85, 88 and 2000.
Killed in race accident in Estonia 2000. Joey's is placed here at the 26th because he had 26 victories at the TT.)
Guthrie's Memorial 26.7 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/48/100/1
(Left-right. Also named The Cutting. James Guthrie, 6 times TT winner in the 1930s. Killed in German GP, August 1937. The memorial is built at the point where he retired in his last TT-race. There are three lefts leading into Guthrie's that can be taken as a long left, all in one radius.)
27th Mountain Mile (Starts with a right hand kink. Often mentioned.)
28th (Right hand kink.)
Three Quarter Way Post 28.3
Mountain Box 28.7 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/53/100/1
(Double apex left hander. East Mountain Gate or Box or East Snaefell Gate. Probably it was named so because in the early years of the TT Course, when it was just a dirt road, there was a gate to keep in the sheep grazing on the mountain. The first rider through had to open the East Mountain Gate and the last one had to close it.)
29th
George's Folly (Rice's Corner) 29.2 (Right hander. Alex George crashed here in Senior TT 1977.)
Black Hut or Stonebreaker's Hut 29.6 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/38/100/1
(Left hander. The John Smythe Shelter. He crashed and was killed in the Senior MGP 1989.)
Verandah 29.7 (At entrance.) 29.9 (At exit.) (Right handers. Four Bends. Can be taken with the radius as one bend.)
30th
Bungalow Bridge or Les Graham Memorial 30.4 (Left hander. Les Graham was killed in senior TT 1953 at Bray Hill.
Les Grahams marshals box was removed some time ago.)
Bob McIntyre Memorial Box (3 TT wins and one MGP in the 1950s. 8 times GP winner. First man who made a 100 m.p.h.  lap 1957. Dead after crash at Oulton Park 1962. It’s said that Geoff Duke was the first man to make the ton in 1955 on a Gilera 500/4. The timekeepers changed their minds after a while and adjusted the speed of the lap to 99.97 m.p.h. Reason why is still unclear. The Bob McIntyre memorial shelter is no longer there and it used to be on the inside of the course. What exists now, and may cause confusion, is a flag marshals hut on the outside of the course and a little before where the Bob Mac hut used to be.)
Bungalow Corner 30.9 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/41/100/1
(Left-right hander. On the approach to Bungalow there are three sweeping rights that can be taken as one.
100 yards up the hill on the right towards the ex-museum, there is a statue of Joey Dunlop sitting on a racingbike.)
Snaefell Mountain Railway crossing
Tholt-y-Will Junction (Manx: Tolta vn woaillee, "hill of the cattle-fold".)
31st
Hailwood Rise 31.1 (Mike Hailwood, World Champion 9 times, 14 times TT winner. Killed in car accident 1981.)
Hailwood Heights 31.5
Brandywell 31.6 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/39/100/1
(Left hander. Manx: Chibbyr y phunch. Highest point of the course, 1385 feet above the sea level.)
32nd Duke's (Three left handers. Geoff Duke, 6 times world champion in the 1950s.
6 times TT winner.)
Windy Corner 32.4 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/59/100/1
(Right hander. Named because no matter what the weather is, there is always a wind blowing.)
33rd http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/37/100/1
(Double apex slight left hander with a gentle right before.)
Keppel Gate 33.7 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/51/100/1
(Slight right and a hard left hander. Hero's Gate in times gone by. As well known as Clark's Corner. R O Clark dropped his 250 Levis on the last lap of the 1920 Junior TT, when running 1st lightweight and probably 4th overall. He picked it up and finished. Very most likely originally a gate outside Tait's Cottage and, in a similar fashion to the procedure at East Mountain Gate, the first rider had to open the gate and the last one had to shut it. If you go back a quarter of a mile from Kate's Cottage to what is now known as Keppel Gate, there's a stone, Marshal's shelter, and at the side of this is an old stone gatepost which is said to have originated at the site of the old Keppel Gate.)
Kate's Cottage 33.9 (Left hander. Tait's Cottage. Named after the Tait family, Rhodes and his wife Gladys, a family of Manx sheep farmers who had lived in that cottage for generations. It was slip of the tongue by Graham Walker (Murray's Dad) during a pre-war BBC commentary. He called it Kate's Cottage. The name has stuck ever since but some sources say that there has been a Kate as well for a period.)
34th
Creg-ny-Baa 34.5 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/42/100/1
(Right hander. Keppel Hotel, a pub. Creg-ny-Baa means ”rock of the cow".)
35th
Gob-ny-Geay Farm 35 ("The point of the mouth or beak of the wind". Also called Sunny Orchard.
There's a little track at the side of the farm. It's a boundary line of the sectors used by Marshals and is called Lanjaghan Lane.)
Brandish Corner or O'Donnell's Corner 35.4 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/79/100/1
(Left hander. Named after Walter Brandish who broke a leg here in 1923 which ended his racing career. O’Donnell refers to some owner of land here before 1914. Someone said once that if you ride from Hillberry to Brandish Corner (in the direction followed by the Clypse Course) you are travelling along Telegraph Hill.)
36th
Hillberry 36 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/49/100/1
(Fast right hander. Manx: Cronk y Berry. Berry is a legendary Manx witch.)
Glen Dhoo Campsite 36.1
Johnny Watterson's Lane Junction
Cronk-ny-Mona 36.4 (Slight left. Means "hill of the turbary or turf". All ears are tuned into the commentary for the magic words "the lights on now - he's through". Moved from Signpost to save time because of the high speeds nowadays.)
Signpost Corner 36.6 (Right hander.)
Bedstead Corner 36.8 (Left hander. The farmer used and old head board from a bed for a gate into the field. The gate (presumably due to neglect or damage) had been substituted by various bits of defunct furniture and junk, most prominently an old cast iron bedstead - hence the name.)
37th
The Nook 37 (Right hander. The name comes from the house opposite. It is the home of the Governor.)
Governor's Bridge 37.2 http://www.gyrovision.com/panoid/46/100/1
(Sharp right hander followed of a left-right on to Glencrutchery Road.)
Victoria Road Junction
Glencrutchery Road 37.3
Start And Finish Line 0/37.73  (The current official length of The TT Course is 37,73 miles.)

Current lap record John McGuinness at Senior TT 2007, June the 8th.
Time: 17.21.99 Average speed: 130,354 m.p.h. on a HM Plant Honda 1000 Fireblade.

Proposal of names for the two commentary points at Glen Helen and Ramsey Hairpin:
Geoff Cannell's
Peter Kneale's

Updated December 9th 2009.


A schematic map with the names of the list.
The ground map is from the official program for MGP 2004.
Some are not at the map because of lack of space.
These are:
Railway Inn between 2nd and 3rd milestone
Strang Road between 2nd and 3rd
Union Mills Garage between 2nd and 3rd
Union Mills Church between 2nd and 3rd
Glen Darragh Road between 4th and 5th
Crosby Church Hall between 4th and 5th
Greeba Young Men's Hall between 6th and 7th
Glen Mooar Mill between 8th and 9th
Quarter Way Post between 9th and 10th
Glen Helen Pub and Hotel between 9th and 10th
The Caravan between 22nd and 23rd
Queens Pier Road between 23rd and 24th
Bus Station between 23rd and 24th
Centenary Bends (still only a proposal) between 25th and 26th
Snaefell Mountain Railway crossing between 30th and 31st
Glen Dhoo Campsite between 36th and 37th
Victoria Road Junction between 37th and Start and Finish Line

Map updated December 20th 2008