This made recommendations on the conversion of Ordnance Survey maps from paper to computer form, making more Government data available, Grid referencing and Postcode referencing of data, measures to promote the use of computerised Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and investment required in training and research and development.

[2] Chorley was a member of the Top Salaries Review Body from 1981 to 1991, of the Ordnance Survey Advisory Board from 1982 to 1985, and of the Natural Environment Research Council 1988 to 1994.

[6] He was a member of the management committee of the Mount Everest Foundation (1968-70), President of the Alpine Club from 1983–1985,[7] and patron of the British Mountaineering Council.

[6] In 1954 he was part of a Cambridge University team, led by Alfred Tissières, which attempted to ascend Rakaposhi (7,788 metres (25,551 ft)) which, at that time, had never been climbed.

She is buried at St Michael and All Angels Church, Hawkshead, Cumbria, with a gravestone which marks their lives in the churchyard.