Difference between revisions of "Canterbury, United Kingdom"

Revision as of 16:41, 26 July 2015

The 51, 1 graticule covers the part of the United Kingdom (UK) from 51° to 52° latitude, and from 1° to 2° longitude. It covers the eastern end of Kent, and also parts of the Suffolk and Essex coasts. At low tide, it also includes a tiny piece of a French beach near Calais - 0.00077 of the area. This might be reachable once every three or four years. The sea areas are Thames and Dover.

Canterbury has a couple of inconveniences. It is about 20% land and the Thames estuary splits the graticule. It's 150 km or 90 miles to the nearest river crossing at Dartford and back to the 51, 1 border. There's a ferry (Gravsend to Tilbury), slightly closer, but only for pedestrians and bicycles. In an average month there might be 4 southern zone and 2 northern land hashpoints.

Expeditions and Plans

2015

Please post your expedition links and plans here.

26 July 2015 (Sun): Sourcerer plans to visit the south side of Alton Water, Suffolk, UK - ETA 21:45.
26 June 2015 (Fri): Sourcerer visited Cattawade Creek, River Stour, Suffolk, UK.
22 February 2015 (Mon): Sourcerer visited a field north of Great Bromley and Little Bentley, Essex, UK arriving at 23:02.

2011

07 July 2011 (Fri): Sourcerer visited the promontory that separates the ports of Harwich and Felixtowe. The hashpoint was right on a public footpath.

2010

21 November 2010 (Sun): Sourcerer visited a small bottle bank in Taunton Road, Walton, Felixtowe, Suffolk, UK. He visited the point and later explored Felixtowe.
24 September 2010 (Fri): Sourcerer and MagicIan visited a sheep field east of East Bergholt, Suffolk, UK. Sourcerer (Neil) made a circular walk on public footpaths with one short cut across a sheep field to take in the hash point. Neil believes this is the first documented expedition in this graticule and claims the virgin geohash. This was hash 1 of a pentahash taking in Canterbury, London East, London West, Northampton and the Cambridge graticules. MagicIan was also trying to lay claim to the virgin geohash in the graticule but was a couple of hours too late.

Local Geohashers

04housemat - Moved from the Weymouth graticule to Canterbury for university.
Kitutal - am I all alone here?
Sourcerer - Visits as often as posible from the Norwich graticule.

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 The [http://carabiner.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?lat=51&long=1&zoom=8&abs=1 51, 1 graticule] covers the part of the [[United Kingdom]] (UK) from 51° to 52° latitude, and from 1° to 2° longitude.  It covers the eastern end of Kent, and also parts of the Suffolk and Essex coasts.  At low tide, it also includes a tiny piece of a French beach near Calais - 0.00077 of the area. This might be reachable once every three or four years. The sea areas are Thames and Dover.
-Canterbury has a couple of inconveniences. It is about 20% land and the Thames estuary splits the graticule. It's 150 km or 90 miles to the nearest river crossing at Dartford and back to the 51, 1 border. There's a ferry (Gravsend to Tilbury), slightly closer, but only for pedestrians and bicycles. In an average month there might be 6 land hashpoints with 5 reachable.
+Canterbury has a couple of inconveniences. It is about 20% land and the Thames estuary splits the graticule. It's 150 km or 90 miles to the nearest river crossing at Dartford and back to the 51, 1 border. There's a ferry (Gravsend to Tilbury), slightly closer, but only for pedestrians and bicycles. In an average month there might be 4 southern zone and 2 northern land hashpoints.
 == Expeditions and Plans ==

Cambridge	Norwich	North Sea
London East	Canterbury	Dunkerque, France
Eastbourne	Calais, France	Arras, France
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