Difference between revisions of "Swindon, United Kingdom"

Revision as of 23:47, 1 October 2009

This graticule covers the parts of the United Kingdom from 51° to 52° latitude, and from -1° to -2° longitude. It is centred on the M4 corridor, contains the city of Oxford and the towns of Swindon and Basingstoke. It extends as far as Winchester and Salisbury in the south, Cirencester to the west, Chipping Norton to the north, and the outskirts of Reading (although not Reading town centre) to the east.

2009-09-29 51 -1 - Speed-racer Success for Macronencer and sermoa on second attempt! davidc also completed the achievement independently!
2009-09-18 50 -0 - Macronencer and drag-along Nodders went to a geohash on the South Downs near the south-east corner of this graticule.
2009-09-10 51 -1 - Macronencer, Sermoa and Mapaholic went on a midnight geohash in Litchfield, 15km north-east of Andover.
2009-08-30 51 -1 - A very fun Cubicle geohash achievement and party at Sermoa's place of work! Barton Farm, Winchester. Macronencer, DavidMiller and Mapaholic came for the party!
2009-04-20 51 -1 - Forawhile made another attempt.
2009-04-19 51 -1 - Forawhile attempted his first expedition.
2009-03-21 51 -1 - Gold Ninja found some trees about ten miles from Oxford.
2009-03-04 51 -1 - Homsar finally reached a hash point, within the Oxford ring road
2009-02-08 51 -1 - Homsar tried and failed to reach a hashpoint in the snow
2008-10-11 51 -1 - Southampton people came North again.
2008-05-31 51 -1 - A bunch of Southampton people went North. We'll remember to tell you we're coming next time, promise.

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2009-10-02 51 -0 - an international meetup of 4 geohashers near Reading. It's actually in 51,-0 but on the -0.999 border!

Gold_Ninja is also in Oxford during term-time.
Forawhile lives in the Wychwoods.
Sermoa lives in Winchester. Public transport enables easier access to the Southampton graticule.
Skippy lives in Swindon.
Macronencer lives in Southampton but will probably be coming North a lot for reasons of dampness.
DavidMiller

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+* [[ 2009-10-02 51 -0]] - an international meetup of 4 geohashers near Reading. It's actually in [[51,-0]] but on the -0.999 border!
 ==Local geohashers==

Shrewsbury	Birmingham	Northampton
Bristol	Swindon	London West
Weymouth	Southampton	Brighton
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