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This [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?lat=51&long=0&zoom=8&abs=1 graticule] covers the part of the [[United Kingdom]] from 51&deg; to 52&deg; latitude, and from 0&deg; to 1&deg; longitude.  It contains the East End of London and extends through Basildon to Southend-on-Sea, also covering Maidstone, Chelmsford, Harlow and Colchester.  It includes such diverse locations as the O<sub>2</sub> Millennium Dome, the Isle of Sheppey, and London Stansted Airport.
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This {{Today's location|lat=51|lon=0|text=graticule}} covers the part of the [[United Kingdom]] from 51&deg; to 52&deg; latitude, and from 0&deg; to 1&deg; longitude.  It contains the East End of London and extends through Basildon to Southend-on-Sea, also covering Maidstone, Chelmsford, Harlow and Colchester.  It includes such diverse locations as the O<sub>2</sub> Millennium Dome, the Isle of Sheppey, and London Stansted Airport.
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To natives, this graticule presents a minor inconvenience in the form of the River Thames, which cuts neatly through the centre. As the Thames is crossable only by a) going into London, b) paying a toll at the Dartford Crossing, or c) swimming like crazy (not recommended).
  
 
When following the XKCD geohashing algorithm, append the fractional hash part to 51&deg; latitude and 0&deg; longitude.
 
When following the XKCD geohashing algorithm, append the fractional hash part to 51&deg; latitude and 0&deg; longitude.
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==Planned Expeditions==
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===2023===
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*[[2023-02-07 51 0]] - [[user:GiantLithiumCube|GiantLithiumCube]] intends to visit green (and probably quite muddy) Epping Forest
  
 
== Past activity ==
 
== Past activity ==
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=== 2022 ===
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* [[2022-10-17 51 0]]: [[User:PeterRoder|PeterRoder]] took the train down from Cambridge to reach a hash near Newport.
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=== 2019 ===
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* [[2019-02-13 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited 52 graticules and was successful 1.4 km north of Great Bardfield, Esset, UK.
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* [[2019-01-01 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] arrived at Bovingdon Wood, SW of Gosfield, Essex, UK at 00:00 2019.
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=== 2018 ===
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* [[2018-12-31 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a mid-field hashpoint near Sible Hedingham, Essex, UK at 22:56, 2018.
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=== 2017 ===
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{{Cambridge/2016 GHD}}
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=== 2016 ===
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* [[2016-06-26 51 0]]: [[User:Tongs/B|Tongs/B]] and Jeff visited a bean field just over 1km south of Newport train station.
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* [[2016-03-27 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a field NE of the castle at Castle Hedingham, Essex, UK.
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* [[2016-03-15 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a field close to the Bull Inn, Blackmore End, Essex, UK.
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* [[2016-03-14 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a graveyard at Twinstead, Essex, UK. Coffin and Holy Hash achieved.
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=== 2015 ===
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* [[2015-12-08 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a farm road and public footpath south of the A120, between Great Dunmow and Braintree, Essex, UK.
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* [[2015-09-07 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] failed to reach a field west of Mark's Tay, Essex, UK at [http://w3w.co/shapes.collapsed.emulating shapes.collapsed.emulating].
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* [[2015-09-03 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] got to within 40 metres but failed to reach the hashpoint in a field, east of Curling Tye Green, Essex, UK.
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* [[2015-08-23 51 0]]: [[User:Huinesoron|Huinesoron]] visited a field just outside Grays, Essex.
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* [[2015-08-22 51 0]]: [[User:Huinesoron|Huinesoron]] and [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] visited a field (of course) north of the river Crouch. Just off the road, though.
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* [[2015-08-21 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a harvested field between Fordham and Little Horkesley, Essex, UK.
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* [[2015-08-19 51 0]]: [[User:Huinesoron|Huinesoron]] mucks about on the side of a road near Basildon, Essex, UK.
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* [[2015-06-29 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a meadow near a public footpath, Nayland, Suffolk, UK.
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* [[2015-01-19 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a field of winter wheat, west of Anstey and a quarry, Hertfordshire, UK. 5 of 7 today.
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=== 2013 ===
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*[[2013-09-07 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a residential cul-de-sac near Maidstone, Kent, UK.
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*[[2013-02-03 51 0]]: [[User:PaintedJaguar|PaintedJaguar]] reached the hashpoint on High Wych Road near the town of Sawbridgeworth.
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=== 2012 ===
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*[[2012-12-09 51 0]]: [[User:Huinesoron|Huinesoron]] attempted to multihash this and the neighbouring [[2012-12-09 51 -0]] hashpoints.
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*[[2012-11-27 51 0]]: [[User:Huinesoron|Huinesoron]], [[User:Haberdasher|Haberdasher]] and [[User:Jand|Jand]] almost got blown away at the hashpoint near Hornchurch Library.
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* [[2012-10-14 51 0]]: [[User:PaintedJaguar|PaintedJaguar]] attempted a [[2012-10-14 51 -0|double hash across London]], but failed to reach this graticule's hashpoint near Thurrock football ground due to barbed wire fences and a flooded field.
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* [[2012-09-11 51 0]]: [[User:Lambert Simnel|Lambert Simnel]] took far less time to get to the hashpoint than he then spent trying to upload files and report it.
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*[[2012-08-25 51 0]]: [[User:Huinesoron|Huinesoron]] attempted to to Speed Racer the heck out of the hashpoint outside Bulphan.
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* [[2012-08-17 51 0]]: [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] drove down from Cambridge to Saffron Walden for the afternoon, and returned via a hashpoint in Clavering, Essex.
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=== 2011 ===
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* [[2011-01-08 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited the Hucking estate and nature reserve. Be careful how you enunciate that one. Hucking lies between Maidstone and Sittingbourne, Kent, UK.
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=== 2010 ===
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* [[2010-09-24 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a harvested wheat field north of the village of Anstey on a dark windy moon-lit night. This was hash 2 of a pentahash taking in Canterbury, London East, London West, Northampton and the Cambridge graticules.
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* [[2010-08-10 51 0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] reached the point close to a public footpath. This was a very pleasant, Crouch Estuary, walk documented at [http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=1093109 wikiloc].
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* [[2010-01-19 51 0]]: [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] once again headed to Stansted Airport from Cambridge, but found the hashpoint in the airport carpark this time.
  
 
=== 2009 ===
 
=== 2009 ===
  
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* [[2009-08-03 51 0|3rd August (Monday)]] [[User:Mito|Mito]] got within 10 meters of the point near Otford rail station, it was on private land.
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* [[2009-08-03 51 0]]: [[User:Mito|Mito]] got within 10 meters of the point near Otford rail station, it was on private land.
  
 
* [[2009-04-19 51 0]]: [[User:Dave_Dubya|Dave Dubya]] attempted to reach the location (on the A414 between Chelmsford and Chipping Ongar), but it was situated on private property and farmland and so not directly accessible.
 
* [[2009-04-19 51 0]]: [[User:Dave_Dubya|Dave Dubya]] attempted to reach the location (on the A414 between Chelmsford and Chipping Ongar), but it was situated on private property and farmland and so not directly accessible.
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* [[User:Rozallin|Rozallin]]
 
* [[User:Rozallin|Rozallin]]
 
* [[User:Dave_Dubya|Dave Dubya]]
 
* [[User:Dave_Dubya|Dave Dubya]]
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* [[User:Tajasel|Tajasel]]
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* [[User:Huinesoron|Huinesoron]]
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* [[User:Tongs/B|Tongs/B]] lives in central London and actively monitors this page for expeditions.
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* [[User:Saxbophone|Saxbophone]] lives in East London and actively looks out for public-transport-accessible hashes within Greater London or nearby parts of the Home Counties to go to
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=== Visitors ===
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* [[User:Haberdasher|Haberdasher]] will be in the [[London West, United Kingdom|London West]] graticule, fairly close to the grat border, in autumn 2012 and will try to do some hashes here.
  
 
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* [[User:MooUK|MooUK]] is in the northwest, and is car powered, or possibly pedal/foot powered if an almost-couch occurs.
 
* [[User:MooUK|MooUK]] is in the northwest, and is car powered, or possibly pedal/foot powered if an almost-couch occurs.
 
* [[User:Phyphor|Phyphor]]
 
* [[User:Phyphor|Phyphor]]
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* [[User:Tr00st|tr00st]] is just outside the graticule, to the northeast.
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=== Ex hashers ===
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* [[User:Tr00st|tr00st]] no longer in the area
  
 
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This graticule covers the part of the United Kingdom from 51° to 52° latitude, and from 0° to 1° longitude. It contains the East End of London and extends through Basildon to Southend-on-Sea, also covering Maidstone, Chelmsford, Harlow and Colchester. It includes such diverse locations as the O2 Millennium Dome, the Isle of Sheppey, and London Stansted Airport.

To natives, this graticule presents a minor inconvenience in the form of the River Thames, which cuts neatly through the centre. As the Thames is crossable only by a) going into London, b) paying a toll at the Dartford Crossing, or c) swimming like crazy (not recommended).

When following the XKCD geohashing algorithm, append the fractional hash part to 51° latitude and 0° longitude.

Planned Expeditions

2023

Past activity

2022

2019

2018

2017

All geohashers are cordially invited to the 10th anniversary 2018 geohashing day meetup in the Cambridge UK graticule.

2016

2015

2013

2012

2011

  • 2011-01-08 51 0: Sourcerer visited the Hucking estate and nature reserve. Be careful how you enunciate that one. Hucking lies between Maidstone and Sittingbourne, Kent, UK.

2010

  • 2010-09-24 51 0: Sourcerer visited a harvested wheat field north of the village of Anstey on a dark windy moon-lit night. This was hash 2 of a pentahash taking in Canterbury, London East, London West, Northampton and the Cambridge graticules.
  • 2010-01-19 51 0: Benjw once again headed to Stansted Airport from Cambridge, but found the hashpoint in the airport carpark this time.

2009

  • 2009-08-03 51 0: Mito got within 10 meters of the point near Otford rail station, it was on private land.
  • 2009-04-19 51 0: Dave Dubya attempted to reach the location (on the A414 between Chelmsford and Chipping Ongar), but it was situated on private property and farmland and so not directly accessible.
  • 2009-01-15 51 0: Benjw visited from the Cambridge graticule, and successfully reached a grassy area just off a track near the B1256, south of Stansted Airport.

2008

  • 2008-07-15 51 0: (tr00st) attempted to head over by bike for his first attempt at getting to some coordinates... Arrived at the field the coordinates were in at about 5:45pm - vegetation proved too thick for me to actually make it to the right point, got pretty close.
  • 2008-06-23 51 0: A group from Maidstone and its surrounds are heading out to this conveniently close hash by foot, by bike, but probably not by plane. The hash may be sneakily relocated to the woods nearby if the field is found to be full of rapeseed for hay fever reasons.
  • 2008-06-14 51 0: The co-ordinates are in the middle of a field, with the closest civilisation either the small town/village of Hunsdon or the town of Ware. Reached by walking across country from Roydon train station. Found a swamp.
  • 2008-06-07 51 0: In darkest Thamesmead, just off the 244 bus route. Could only take sly photos due to dodgy looking locals.

Local geohashers

  • Rozallin
  • Dave Dubya
  • Tajasel
  • Huinesoron
  • Tongs/B lives in central London and actively monitors this page for expeditions.
  • Saxbophone lives in East London and actively looks out for public-transport-accessible hashes within Greater London or nearby parts of the Home Counties to go to

Visitors

  • Haberdasher will be in the London West graticule, fairly close to the grat border, in autumn 2012 and will try to do some hashes here.

Status unknown

  • Commlal
  • Lordpenguin is in the northeast corner, and needs driving practice!
  • MooUK is in the northwest, and is car powered, or possibly pedal/foot powered if an almost-couch occurs.
  • Phyphor

Ex hashers

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