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Location

Eastleigh, near the railway station, off Campbell Road. Dee has checked it out and reports that the hash point is easily accessible. The area is mainly grass and mossy concrete.

Participants

Sermoa - definite
Macronencer - definite
donks169 - possible but later on
Richard, a colleague of Sermoa - possible
Dee - I hope so
davidc - maybe (if so, origin geohash on the way!)
JonRead - very probable!

Plans

Let's try for a 4pm meetup, hang around for a few hours, hopefully meet up with our friends from Poole, get something to eat in the evening. Perhaps we should bring something to hack our way through if there has been long grass growing all summer. If it is publicly accessible i suspect there will be a lot of rubbish there, so some bin bags might be useful for the geotrashing achievement! I've heard a plan to go to the Cricketers Arms afterwards - everyone is welcome to come along! :) -- sermoa

This is, on reflection, one of the more interesting geohash locations I've seen, though not quite picturesque! It's surrounded by train yards and next to a sewage farm. Wonder what it's like living in those houses? Good idea with the geotrash thing. I've just been looking again at the satellite image, and I really can't see any sign of a fence between the hash point and that children's playground - so I'm now rather more optimistic about access! I think this could be good. I used to live practically in Eastleigh, so I'll start thinking about good eating places. btw, look at this - someone's got a particle accelerator in their back garden! http://bit.ly/vi8rT :) --macronencer 19:27, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

The location is inside the old railway works car park which was, on last investigation, surrounded by high fence (Corner of the service road, north east to the track), but entrance looked possible with a bit of effort. If not, the land to the south east, between it and the park is accessable, but very overgrown. The rest of the railway works has had a very nice solid fence installed a few months ago making entrance to that part of it very unlikely --Dee (Not a real user yet) 21:29, 25 September 2009

Wow - thanks Dee! That's useful. It sounds as if the triangular overgrown patch to the North of the playground is the accessible bit, from what you wrote. If so, I'd guess we can get about 15m from the target... with any luck, Google has its satellite image misaligned (does happen) and we might even be closer than that... as long as we're willing to hack through a few bushes. Sensible clothes, people, OK? --macronencer 20:42, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Bing maps seems to show that accessing the location may be possible - although it may be in the middle of a large bush!: Bing map

Ah yes, that's a good image from Bing! The geohash is very near that large bush - i do hope it's not right in the middle! -- sermoa 10:35, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Expedition

details to come later ...! :)

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