Birmingham, United Kingdom

The Birmingham graticule is at latitude 52, longitude -1.

Local Geohashers

Active

kimble lives in Birmingham. Has bike, will travel.
omniscient resides in Leicester and will attempt Saturday meetups when possible. Bike, bus or rail powered with benefit of GPS.
archiewood will try to get to weekend meetings when doable. Car and now GPS!
jwalton on foot, anywhere near Derby City
Nickholden on foot or bike, in or around Leicester.

Inactive

See Birmingham, United Kingdom/Inactive Users

Mailing List

birmingham-east-geohashers

The mailing list is for discussing upcoming locations/meets, activities, car pooling, and all things geohashing.

Notes

There are discussions on the Talk page, please contribute to them.

There is also a facebook group.

Meetups

Currently Planned

2013-05-25 52 -1 Saturday: Nick Holden is aiming for a field near Moira. 4pm, weather and leg muscles permitting. Bring a towel.

A toast! Quiet! Shut up! I'm ah, I got words. I'm saying. This is an auspicious day. We all know what day it is.
- What's auspicious? What day is it?
A glorious day for all the proud members of the allied planets. #towelday and #mouseoverday

2013

2013-04-28 52 -1 Sunday: Bollerenshaws visited a field near Offchurch, north-east of Leamington Spa, UK.

2013-04-14 52 -1 Sunday: Sourcerer visited the banks of the river Blythe between the M6 Toll road and the A446, east of Birmingham, UK.

2013-02-18 52 -1 Monday: Sourcerer visited an area of heath and wood surrounded by major roads and a small river, Coventry, UK.

2012

2012-11-18 52 -1 Sunday: Nickholden got within four feet of a private car park, off the Lutterworth Road, Leicester.
2012-11-04 52 -1 Sunday: Sourcerer failed to visit a field 42 metres off a narrow rural lane. The nearest big town was Uttoxeter.
2012-08-09 52 -1 Thursday: Sourcerer visited a hay field a few metres off a public footpath. This was near the Grand Union Canal at Hatton.
2012-3-8 52 -1 Thursday: jwalton sat by a stream in a field near the A38 in Derby, UK.

2011

2011-05-27 52 -1 Friday: Sourcerer visited the hashpoint a mile north east of spaghetti junction, Birmingham, UK.
2011-03-20 52 -1 Sunday: Sourcerer achieved multihash 2 of 5 in a field about five miles west of Coventry, UK.

2010

2010-10-10 52 -1 Sunday: Archiewood fought with Google maps to get as close to this hash as he could.
2010-10-09 Saturday: Archiewood got as close to ~~this hash~~ what he thought was this hash as he could, only to later discover he had accidentally visited the hash for the same day on the previous week. This is noteworthy only because it appeared another hasher made exactly the same mistake.
2010-09-22 52 -1 Wednesday: Joe walked to today's hashpoint, and saw a low flying C-130.
2010-09-21 52 -1 Tuesday: Archiewood said hello to the sheep at this hash in Whilton.
2010-07-24 52 -1 Saturday: Omniscient trekked as close as he could to this hash after visitng twycross zoo.
2010-07-17 52 -1 Saturday: Omniscient assailed the grassy verge with friends.
2010-06-25 52 -1 Friday: Joe visited this one in Croft.
2010-06-20 52 -1 Sunday: MagicIan completed this hash - his first of 4-in-a-row on this day - in a field beyond Anstey cemetery.
2010-06-16 52 -1 Wednesday: Joe went to this one on the outskirts of Leicester / Grove park.
2010-02-15 52 -1 Monday: Joe visited.

2009

2009-11-02 52 -1 Monday: Kim took a detour from her regular cycling route to visit this one.
2009-10-07 52 -1 Wednesday: Joe Hardman went to this one near Shawell.
2009-09-30 52 -1 Wednesday: davidc, on loan from Berlin, Germany, visits a field near Banbury and enjoys the English countryside.
2009-08-13 52 -1 Thursday: A school in Earl Shilton. Joehardflec headed over there and walked down the track/footpath by the side of the playing fields, getting as close as was possible
2009-08-02 52 -1 Sunday: Field near the M1, footpath from Willoughby Waterleys. Joe Hardman went using new GPS.
2009-03-24 52 -1 Tuesday: The entrance to a park in Oadby. Benjw visited from the Cambridge graticule and was at the hashpoint from 3:50pm until 4:45. Joehardflec had said that he would "be there around 4pm" but didn't show up.

2008

2008-06-22 52 -1 Sunday: SminkyBazzA and Bluecont found a tractor.
2008-06-20 52 -1 Friday: Albert Herring wandered down to the hashpoint at about 19:00, as it was just around the corner. It turned out to be in a private garden in a housing estate at the edge of Keyworth.
2008-06-08 52 -1 Sunday: Becky investigated, and even took chocolate biscuits, but the hashpoint was in a private garden.

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