2015-06-08 51 -1
| Mon 8 Jun 2015 in 51,-1: 51.8074184, -1.7902871 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
Just outside the gates of Lodge Park, a 17th-century country estate now owned by the National Trust.
Participants
Plans
It's less than a mile off the A40, which is on my way home from work! This couldn't be easier.
Expedition
At about 6 o'clock, I turned off the A40 onto a single-track road with passing places. Fortunately, nothing was coming the other way, and I reached Lodge Park without incident and parked out front. There were a few other cars there, and I wondered if I might meet some employees who would be confused about what I was doing - the property is not open to the public on Mondays. In the end, nobody was there.
The parking place was a few hundred metres from the hash, so I walked along the grass verge of the road and reached a gap in the stone wall. This wall is of historical interest, as it was the subject of a Cotswolds Area of Natural Beauty Drystone Walling competition in 2013.
Continuing through onto a stony path, I saw that there was a great pile of leftover stone roughly where I thought the hash was, and behind the stones it was all brambles and nettles. I wandered around a bit, getting my bearings with the Geohash Droid. Aha! The hash itself was found in an area of long grass and wild flowers, perhaps fifty metres off the path.
The obligatory photos were taken, and I headed back to the car. Driving towards the A40 again, I almost ran over two red-legged partridges - as a birdwatcher I've been looking out for these for a while, so I just had to stop the car in a passing place and take some quick photos! One for the tick list!
Photos
Arriving at the rather splendid gates
The narrow road
Successful grin! With ghost. Or, my finger. Who knows.
A fine day for hashing
Proof
