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This graticule has boundaries from 52° to 53° latitude, and 0° to 1° longitude and contains Cambridge, UK. The graticule from -1° to 0° longitude is also near to Cambridge, but, due to the symmetry about the prime meridian, will never provide locations closer to the centre of Cambridge.
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Local Geohashers
- Slainveteran is bike powered, so will only be able to make it when the coordinates lie nearby Cambridge itself
- lilac is also bike powered, but might be prepared to cycle up to about ten miles from Cambridge for a Saturday location.
- Spanky is also bike powered from Cambridge, and generally will try to go on a Saturday. Limit of about 15 miles and prepared to take a train to get in range. Suggests: some cunning way of indicating who has visited a spot...?
- youpi is bike powered.
- JPD is bike powered as well. 16:00 is usually Not A Good Time, but will occasionally get there before that and leave a mark.
- Ax has a new bike and might try a long distance cycle ride if the weather is nice any time soon... and is occasionally car powered.
- Keeper is powered by caffeine and petrol; therefore, he can get most places.
- murphy is bike powered until his more petrol based bike is fixed, after which he can get most places.
- Granularman will most likely put in an appearance on 7 June, before he disappears to far-off graticules. He is powered by car and determination.
- TheCoop is bike powered from cambridge.
- MooUK is just beyond the southern boundary but might be convinced to make nearby meets, probably by four-wheeled infernal combusting methods.
- Stephen Turner is bike-powered too.
2008-06-17
The official location for 17/6 is, I think, the closest it's ever been to Cambridge. (It's also very close to my workplace in Cottenham). I know it's a Tuesday, but is anyone up for a meetup on the closest bit of road? I think we should be able to get about 200m away. Lunchtime would probably be best for me, but I'm open to other times. Stephen Turner 15:46, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Given the nice long days this time of year, how about an evening meetup? That should give us longer to get there from our respective jobs / layabout lifestyles, and allow more time for socializing. 7pm? lilac 19:49, 16 June 2008
- If it's going to be in the evening, maybe 8pm would be even better to allow time for eating first. Or else 6.30pm or 7pm followed by curry? — there's a reasonable curry house in Cottenham. Stephen Turner 19:48, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
2008-06-13
Reasonably close to Cambridge (10 miles) - a farm near Wicken Fen. TheCoop may start cycling and see where he gets to, weather permitting. Looks like a private property though, probably an idea to be on the road going past it.
2008-06-08
Depending on the weather Ax might try and cycle to this one, any idea how long a 15 mile cycle at a pleasurable pace might take?
Ax: at a pleasurable pace you might take about an hour to an hour and a half.
(Consider pleasurable cycling to be around 15mph as this is fast enough to feel the breeze, not too slow to be dull. That's an hour. Then add half an hour for stops at traffic lights (if you do that sort of thing), and anything uphill which might be around 10-12mph.)
2008-06-07
This week's location is in a field just off Manea Road (B1093) near March. Granularman and his sidekicks will be aiming to take the train to March, and cycle the 5-6 miles from there.
Spanky will likely do something similar. Trains get in to March at 15:35 and 16:35. Spanky will either be early or late. This is the way of things.
Spanky was late, getting there around 17.30. Saw nobody. The way of things was observed*. Did anybody else go? Couldn't find any markers.
*except by the GPS, which did a covert 'recalculation' and added 3 miles to the journey.
Granularman and co. were in the vicinity from about 16:45 to 17:15, enjoyed the Stone Age fort nearby, and left a small chalked epigram beside the road.
2008-05-31
The new location is in a field near Safron Waldon 15 miles from Cambridge, cycle-able if its nice weather. 2008-05-31 Cambridge, United Kingdom
2008-05-25
For the cycle-powered, Sunday's location (2008-05-25) looks to be reachable from Bishops Stortford / Stansted Airport railway stations (though it's about 10 miles each way):
51.9417748528,0.18287359767
Mmm, it looks like there is a mistake above: it is *not* in the (52,0) graticule...
- True, but the (52,0) location is further from Cambridge, and significantly more underwater.
Did anybody go on Sunday?
2008-05-24
- Youpi was there (52.126648°, 0.547533°) this afternoon (Saturday, 24/5) between 16:00 and 16:30 but saw nobody :/ Anyway it was a cool 46 miles tour! On the way I spotted an unexpected road sign:
- Spanky went Saturday (24/5), leaving a little later than expected. Saw nobody and will be taking a satnav in future. Here is an Art found outside Haverhill:
