Andy Strangeway

Andy Strangeway (born 1965 in Londesborough, East Riding of Yorkshire) is a councillor, decorator, adventurer and islomaniac from the Yorkshire Wolds, is the first – and so far the only – person to complete the challenge of landing and sleeping on all 162 of Scotland's islands of 40 hectares and above. One definition of an island is that used by Hamish Haswell-Smith in his book The Scottish Islands first published by Canongate in 1999. This list excludes bridged islands such as Skye and tidal islands such as Oronsay that are much larger than 40 hectares (99 acres). Strangeway's definition is simply "a piece of land surrounded by sea that you can't walk to".

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• Andy strangeway unveiling of the first yorkshire boundary sign 1st august 2014
• Andy strangeways whitby west cliff motor caravan
• References

On Saturday 8 August 2009, upon landing Out Stack, Andy Strangeway claimed to be the first person to land the four extreme points of Scotland, and the first and so far only known person to achieve this feat. However, having not yet landed on Rockall this claim is disputed.

Strangeway is now an access rights campaigner.

On Saturday 6 March 2010, Strangeway assisted Uri Geller to land and sleep on the island of Lamb which he had bought a year earlier. It was Geller's first visit and Strangeway's second.

On 10 May 2010, Strangeway successfully applied for the first ever planning permission for Rockall to replace the Queen's plaque. This he intended to do in 2011 but was abandoned.

Upon landing and sleeping on the southerly point of Yorkshire on 5/6 February 2011 Strangeway became the first person to not only sleep on the summits of the three Ridings but also the first person to sleep on the seven extreme points of Yorkshire.

On 31 August 2011 Strangeway became the first person to sleep at each of the six extreme points of Great Britain solo on consecutive nights.

This is the extreme point route Strangeway took:

Thursday 25/Friday 26 – Southernmost point – Lizard Point, Cornwall

Friday 26 /Saturday 27 – Lowest point – Holme Fen, Huntingdonshire

Saturday 27/Sunday 28 – Easternmost point – Lowestoft Ness, Suffolk

Sunday 28/Monday 29 – Westernmost point – Corrachadh Mor, Argyllshire

Monday 29/Tuesday 30 – Northernmost point – Dunnet Head, Caithness

Tuesday 30/Wednesday31 – Highest point – Ben Nevis, Inverness-shire

In June 2012 Strangeway successfully campaigned for the removal of 69 No Overnight Parking signs on trunk roads in the Highlands. He followed this in September 2012 by successfully campaigning for an estimated 250 No Overnight Parking signs to be removed from non-trunk roads across the Highlands.

A few days later in September 2012 Strangeway became the first person to sleep on the summit of all 52 counties of England and Wales.

On 7 May 2015, Strangeway stood as the UK Independence Party candidate for the Wolds Weighton ward of East Riding of Yorkshire Council, finishing fourth in the three-member ward with 1,915 votes. As an independent candidate, he was elected for the Pocklington Provincial ward in a by-election on 7 April 2016.