Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Today's Locations: Cambridge and Adjacent Locations
The area
This graticule covers the part of the United Kingdom (UK) from 52° to 53° latitude, and from 0° to 1° longitude. It contains the city of Cambridge, and several smaller towns including King's Lynn, Wisbech, Thetford, Ely, Newmarket and Haverhill.
Cambridge has enjoyed several spikes of activity over the last few years, and until Sheffield and then Norwich overtook it in 2011 (although we have since re-overtaken Sheffield), it was the UK's most active graticule. Although most of the early activity was based around the city, we are now fortunate enough to have active geohashers to the north and east as well, and new hashers and meetups in any part of the graticule are most definitely welcome. Meetups are always good!
The Cambridge graticule covers not only the county of Cambridgeshire, but also parts of Hertfordshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Lincolnshire. Geohashers reaching points in all these counties can claim a reverse regional achievement for this graticule. Most of the graticule is land, but the Norfolk coastline falls just inside its northern edge and, further west, it includes The Wash in Lincolnshire. Much of the terrain is quite flat, with some hillier land in the south, and much of it is farmland. As Cambridge itself is arguably the "cycling capital of England", the graticule offers excellent opportunities for bicycle geohashing.
Due to the symmetry of coordinates about the prime meridian, the neighbouring Northampton graticule, to the west, will never provide a closer hashpoint than our own graticule, no matter how close to the border you are. However, if the day's coordinates fall close to the meridian, then the hashpoints in the two graticules will be quite close together, offering a good opportunity for a Double geohash. Indeed, at this latitude, it even becomes possible to be in the uncertainty circle of both hashpoints simultaneously if the longitude is less than +/- 0.000100° -- this can be expected about once every 25 years.
Expeditions and Plans
Expeditions in this graticule are listed below in reverse date order. Here is a complete list of expeditions in Cambridge (52, 0) without descriptive details.
2016
All geohashers are cordially invited to a geohashing day meetup in the Cambridge UK graticule.
- 21 May 2016 (Sat): An excellent celebration of Geohashing Day will take place at the (as yet unknown) hashpoint at 4pm. Tongs and Sourcerer have so far confirmed.
If you're planning an expedition, please add to this section. People actively watch it and they might try to join you.
- 01 January 2016 (Fri): Sourcerer visited a field in Little Massinghan, Norfolk, UK.
Archives for 2008-2015
188 expeditions took place between 2008 and 2015. These are detailed on the archive pages for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
The highest number of expeditions in a calendar year was the 81 during 2015, and the highest number in a month was 13, in August 2015. A few times, Cambridge has been the most active graticule in the world for a particular month, earning us some shiny ribbons. In 2015 Cambridge came third in the world for expeditions and tied for second place in the category coordinates-reached after stiff competition with Mannheim, Germany who came second for expeditions. (TBC if there are late reports).
The Cambridge, United Kingdom graticule (52 0) earned the Most Active Graticule achievement
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The Cambridge, United Kingdom graticule (52 0) earned the Most Active Graticule achievement
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The Cambridge, United Kingdom graticule (52 0) earned the Most Active Graticule achievement
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The Cambridge, United Kingdom graticule (52 0) earned the Most Active Graticule achievement
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The Cambridge, United Kingdom graticule (52 0) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement
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The Cambridge, United Kingdom graticule (52 0) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement
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The Cambridge, United Kingdom graticule (52 0) earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement
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Local Geohashers
- See also: Category:Geohashers in 52,0.
The following are known to be currently active:
- Benjw is in central Cambridge. He hashes by bicycle and car, albeit sporadically, but checks the wiki frequently and is always keen for meetups.
- MagicIan is in the Norwich graticule.
- PaintedJaguar is in Cambridge.
- Sourcerer based in the Norwich graticule frequently visits.
- Transhumanist is in the Northampton graticule, but still considers himself a Cambridge resident and is working on improved means of transport.
- The Tongs all live in Cambridge.
Other hashers have previously been active in this graticule; they are listed on the 2008 archive page.
