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Location

In a small field adjacent to Trent Road, Stone.

Participants

Tongs/B

Plans

I will be passing through Stone at about 2pm-3pm on Sunday, so I'll take a few hundred metres' detour and see if I can get to the hashpoint. Looking at the inactivity of this graticule, I'm not expecting any meetups, but if someone wants to, please leave a message and I'll be more exact about the time.

I'm not sure if this is public land, or someone's garden, or what, but got some help from PaintedJaguar:

It's hard to make out from Google Maps Street View whether this is someone's back garden or not. I think it probably is, so I'm not sure this is going to work. Can any more experienced geohashers determine whether this is a field or a garden? Tongs (talk) 12:39, 6 November 2015 (EST)

If you switch to Google satellite view and zoom in, it looks to me like there is a reasonably well-used path running along the north-eastern edge of the field, behind the gardens of the houses on Newcastle Road. OpenStreetMap also suggests a footpath there. Based on that, I'd be willing to take a guess that the hashpoint is in a field, rather than a garden, and is reachable from the path. On the other hand, I've been bitten before (in a non-geohasing sense) by a path shown on OpenStreetMap that turend out to be blocked by a barbed wire fence ;-) PaintedJaguar (talk) 21:30, 6 November 2015 (EST)

It's worth a look. New houses were being built in 2009 (Hartley Close). You might find an accessible building site in this field. PaintedJaguar's path is real. StreetView shows the safety barriers to stop cyclists. I have some out-of-date local knowledge. If you walk south east along the canal tow path, at the third or fourth bridge you will reach the Star, a Marston's pub that used to be excellent and perhaps still is. You can watch the narrow boats locking up or down while supping your pint. Of course they have a car park if you are driving. --Sourcerer (talk) 09:49, 7 November 2015 (EST)

Thanks for all the useful information! I'll report back tomorrow! Tongs (talk) 14:12, 7 November 2015 (EST)

Expedition

As you both correctly guess, access was easy and I reached the hashpoint just after 2.30pm today! It's now a quarter to midnight, though, so I'm going to leave my writeup and uploading my photos until tomorrow!

Tracklog

Photos

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