Swindon, United Kingdom

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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. An inland graticule, it's only 0.68% covered with water (source), which makes water hashes unlikely.

Expeditions and Plans

Expeditions in this graticule are listed below in reverse date order. Here is a without descriptive details.

2019

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Date	Attendees	Summary	Reached?	Tracklog?	Photos?	Video?
2019-08-01	Dan Q	cycled to Charlbury	yes	yes	yes	yes
2019-07-07	UnwiseOwl	took the bus to Headington	yes		yes
2019-05-27	Dan Q	cycled to a cul-de-sac	yes	yes	yes
2019-01-08	Dan Q	got his birthday geohash achievement	yes	yes		yes

2018

Date	Attendees	Summary	Reached?	Tracklog?	Photos?	Video?
2018-08-23	Dan Q	gave up on his plans and hit a different graticule instead
2018-08-04	Dan Q	achieved his first Midnight Hashpoint	yes	yes	yes
2018-08-07	Dan Q	was out standing in his field	yes		yes	yes

2016

Date	Attendees	Summary	Reached?	Tracklog?	Photos?	Video?
2016-04-24	Fatman, PH	narrowly survived the horrors of the raptor nest at Andover	yes		yes

2015

Date	Attendees	Summary	Reached?	Tracklog?	Photos?	Video?
2015-09-12	SpiritofMaurice	lost his expedition virginity trying, and failing, to trespass on some idyllic and beautiful farmland just north of Salisbury, between Old Sarum and Stonehenge			yes
2015-06-08	Geeoharee	drove home from work along the A40	yes		yes
2015-06-04	Geeoharee	cancelled her plans after an unusual attack of common sense
2015-05-28	Geeoharee	took a detour after work to a field north of Oxford	yes		yes
2015-01-03	Fatman	spent his Saturday afternoon trudging around a farmer's waterlogged field near Ampney Crucis, Cirencester	yes		yes

2014

Date	Attendees	Summary	Reached?	Tracklog?	Photos?	Video?
2014-04-21	Dan Q	took his partner and her baby out to visit a hashpoint just 300 metres from his house, and then back via a couple of local geocaches	yes	yes	yes

2013

Date	Attendees	Summary	Reached?	Tracklog?	Photos?	Video?
2013-03-10	Jand	opted not to knock on the door of the house containing the hashpoint
2013-04-02	Jand	found new meaning for the circle of uncertainty alongside a field of cattle	maybe
2013-04-06	Jand	discovered hashpacas before being stopped by private land
2013-05-20	Jand, Jand's brother	reached a hashpoint at their brother's shop	yes
2013-01-17	Jand, Jand's mother	drove to Andover with their mother	yes

2012

Date	Attendees	Summary	Reached?	Tracklog?	Photos?	Video?
2012-12-11	Jand, Jand's mother	found their way to a frozen field without looking at their GPS	yes
2012-11-21	Jand, Jand's brother	didn't fancy getting Jand's brother's car stuck in the mud
2012-11-09	Jand	got a lift to almost-the-hashpoint	yes
2012-10-20	Jand, Jand's father	got up early despite a party the night before to find a hashpoint in a field	yes
2012-10-01	Jand	cycled out and send a hashcard to NibblyG	yes
2012-08-27	David Miller, Ryan Miller, KatieWheatley, Chloé Miller	drove to White Hill to watch the sun rise	yes		yes
2012-08-21	Ali0sha, Ellie, Peter	dragged company to have a picnic near Cuddlesford	yes	yes	yes
2012-08-18	User:Ali0sha, Ellie, Peter	planned to sit in a field near Cholsey at 1pm-ish but got to a locked gate			yes
2012-08-17	User:Ali0sha	cycled to the middle of a field in Cottisford	yes	yes	yes
2012-08-05	Mapaholic, Vicky, David Miller	took pie to a field near Stockbridge but didn't quite meet up	yes		yes
2012-06-30	Jand, Jand's father	hoped for a water geohash but found that a recent drought had made their life easier	yes
2012-06-04	Jand, Jand's brother Jand's father	found a pub in Alderbury	yes		yes
2012-06-03	Jand	got as close as possible to a hashpoint in a restricted area			yes
2012-05-27	Jand	visited a grass field about 6 miles southeast of Salisbury	yes		yes
2012-04-09	Jand, Jand's mother, Jand's father	retroactively called this near-miss a success owing to the circle of uncertainty	yes
2012-03-21	Jand	bought a round in a pub near King's Sombourne	yes		yes
2012-03-21	Jand, NibblyG	took a long walk in the dark and wrote song lyrics	yes
2012-03-04	Jand, Jand's mother, Jand's father	picked litter in a copse east of Salisbury	yes		yes
2012-01-17	Jand, Mad dog	left school and went to Salisbury	yes
2012-01-11	Alex, Joe	trekked to a field somewhere south of Oxford and had lunch	yes		yes

2011

Date	Attendees	Summary	Reached?	Tracklog?	Photos?	Video?
2011-06-18	Sourcerer	travelled 662km from Norwich to complete a 9-square minesweeper achievement	yes		yes

2010

Date	Attendees	Summary	Reached?	Tracklog?	Photos?	Video?
2010-07-31	DavidMiller, Ryan	paid too much for a pint of beer at a hotel bar	yes		yes
2010-05-29	Sermoa, Mapaholic, Bluecont, David Miller, David Miller's kids	met up on a Saturday in Micheldever, Hampshire	yes		yes
2010-05-28	Sermoa, Mapaholic, Durantelo	went out at midnight and were pwnd by Mother Nature at a field of oil seed rape			yes

2009

• 2009-12-06 51 -1 - Bluecont declared himself "close enough" to this hash point near Wroughton.
• 2009-11-23 51 -1 - Joe from Birmingham graticule passed through on route to Portsmouth, and stopped off at the hashpoint just off the A34 near World's End.
• 2009-10-23 51 -1 - Macronencer, Sermoa and David Miller each made separate trips up this hill in Hockley, Winchester during the course of the day!
• 2009-10-04 51 -1 - A single geohasher (due to scheduling and transport difficulties) and a thick hedge.
• 2009-10-03 51 -1 - in Winchester was awesome and win! Taxi geohash, 9 people in attendance, including 2 visiting Canadians and a very obliging ambassador, Farmer Nicholas!
• 2009-10-02 51 -0 - an international meetup of 4 geohashers near Reading. It was actually in 51,-0 but on the -0.999 border so most of the time we were in Swindon graticule and we only crossed the border when we crossed the field to the geohash! :)
• 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

• 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.

Gallery

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See also: Category:Meetup in 51 -1.

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  Ali0sha et al. ate a picnic at Cuddlesford

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  Ali0sha failed to face the raptors near Cholsey

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  Ali0sha explored Cottisford

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  Alex and Joe explored Shillingford

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  Jand explored Long Copse

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  Jand et al. had a pint at Alderbury

Local geohashers

• 7thSpringRunner is in Oxford during term-time, and Bicester the rest of the time.
• Gold_Ninja is also in Oxford during term-time.
• Forawhile lives in Witney.
• 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 Lives in Winchester
• Ali0sha lives in Witney, studies in Oxford
• Jand lives in Salisbury and hashes around the South part of the graticule.
• Kitutal lives just over the border, but since most of my graticule is in the sea, I may have to visit sometime
• DanQ lives just North of Oxford
• Fatman lives in Swindon.

Visitors

• Haberdasher will be in the London West graticule in autumn 2012, and may do some hashes here on weekends.

No longer active

• Homsar has now finished at Oxford; graduating in November

Status unknown

• Alfa - I live 10m inside this graticule!
• Ali
• The Duke of Nuke
• Guido
• Julie-oh
• Lardaholics Anonymous
• MI77
• Tiedyeina
• Mapaholic

Related groups

• Twitter hashtag #geohashingN51W1
• Flickr tag geohashingN51W1
• Youtube tag geohashingN51W1