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== Location ==
 
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Outside a house on High Wych Road, near the town of Sawbridgeworth.
  
 
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The plans were to get a train from Cambridge to Sawbridgeworth shortly after we managed to get out of bed in the morning, walk to the hashpoint via the river, and then head back into Sawbridgeworth for a pub lunch.
  
 
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The expedition went pretty much as planned, if perhaps a little later in the day than we originally hoped for, initially travelling on the 11:32 train from Cambridge to Sawbridgeworth (which was still just in the morning...). We had a very nice walk along the River Stort and then through a park that we subsequently discovered was called Pishiobury Park ([http://www.hertslink.org/cms/getactive/placestovisit/pishiobury/ offical website]) ([http://www.friendsofpishioburypark.co.uk/ 'Friends of...' website]). There were a few bits of the park that had more mud than grass, but that probably wasn't unexpected given the time of year! It's definitely a place we'd up for visiting again in the summer.
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From here, it wasn't very far at all to reach the hashpoint. We suspected that the exact hashpoint was in somebody's front garden, but when standing on the pavement outside their driveway, the GPS said we were 5 metres away, with an accuracy of 6 metres. That was good enough for us - we didn't fancy our chances asking the people who lived there for permission to walk all over their nicely kept lawn with our incredibly muddy boots!
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It was now 1:30pm, and we were getting quite hungry, so we quickly headed directly into Sawbridgeworth town centre, where we found an excellent pub called [http://www.thegatepub.com/ The Gate], which had a fine selection of beers and did a delicious Sunday lunch. A short wander around the town centre followed, where we saw another couple of pubs that looked very nice, before we headed back to the train station for the journey back to Cambridge.
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The overall summary was that this was an excellent day out, and Sawbridgeworth is now definitely on the map as somewhere we should visit in the future - for both walking and drinking!
  
 
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http://en.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=3969806 shows the route from Sawbridgeworth station, via the hashpoint, to the pub.
  
 
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Image:2013-02-03_51_0_boats.JPG | Boats on the river
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Image:2013-02-03_51_0_swan2.JPG | Swan close-up
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Image:2013-02-03_51_0_muddy_path.JPG | Muddy ground
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Image:2013-02-03_51_0_tree1.JPG | MrsPaintedJaguar in a tree
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Image:2013-02-03_51_0_park1.JPG | Pishiobury Park
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Image:2013-02-03_51_0_bird1.JPG | Bird in flight
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Image:2013-02-03_51_0_road_sign.JPG | Road sign, in need of some TLC
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Image:2013-02-03_51_0_thatched_roof.JPG | Thatched roof barn, very close to hashpoint
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Image:2013-02-03_51_0_marker.JPG | Chalk message left on the pavement, with Hammersmith the Hashscot. I didn't almost get the year wrong, honest!
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Image:2013-02-03_51_0_tickets.JPG | Proof of public transport geohash
 
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Location

Outside a house on High Wych Road, near the town of Sawbridgeworth.

Participants

Plans

The plans were to get a train from Cambridge to Sawbridgeworth shortly after we managed to get out of bed in the morning, walk to the hashpoint via the river, and then head back into Sawbridgeworth for a pub lunch.

Expedition

The expedition went pretty much as planned, if perhaps a little later in the day than we originally hoped for, initially travelling on the 11:32 train from Cambridge to Sawbridgeworth (which was still just in the morning...). We had a very nice walk along the River Stort and then through a park that we subsequently discovered was called Pishiobury Park (offical website) ('Friends of...' website). There were a few bits of the park that had more mud than grass, but that probably wasn't unexpected given the time of year! It's definitely a place we'd up for visiting again in the summer.

From here, it wasn't very far at all to reach the hashpoint. We suspected that the exact hashpoint was in somebody's front garden, but when standing on the pavement outside their driveway, the GPS said we were 5 metres away, with an accuracy of 6 metres. That was good enough for us - we didn't fancy our chances asking the people who lived there for permission to walk all over their nicely kept lawn with our incredibly muddy boots!

It was now 1:30pm, and we were getting quite hungry, so we quickly headed directly into Sawbridgeworth town centre, where we found an excellent pub called The Gate, which had a fine selection of beers and did a delicious Sunday lunch. A short wander around the town centre followed, where we saw another couple of pubs that looked very nice, before we headed back to the train station for the journey back to Cambridge.

The overall summary was that this was an excellent day out, and Sawbridgeworth is now definitely on the map as somewhere we should visit in the future - for both walking and drinking!

Tracklog

http://en.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=3969806 shows the route from Sawbridgeworth station, via the hashpoint, to the pub.

Photos

  • Boats on the river

  • Swan

  • Swan close-up

  • Swan

  • River Stort

  • Muddy ground

  • MrsPaintedJaguar in a tree

  • PaintedJaguar in a tree

  • Pishiobury Park

  • Pishiobury Park

  • Bird in flight

  • Bird in bushes

  • Road sign, in need of some TLC

  • Thatched roof barn, very close to hashpoint

  • Tree growing through a wall, very close to hashpoint

  • The hash-house

  • GPS receiver, outside the hash-house

  • Chalk message left on the pavement, with Hammersmith the Hashscot. I didn't almost get the year wrong, honest!

  • Silly grins

  • On the way to the pub: I wonder how it got it's name...?

  • The Gate pub

  • Pub sign

  • Proof of public transport geohash

Achievements

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 PaintedJaguar earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (51, 0) geohash on 2013-02-03.
Bus.PNG
 PaintedJaguar earned the Public transport geohash achievement
by reaching the (51, 0) geohash on 2013-02-03 via the train.
2013-02-03 51 0 tickets.JPG
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PaintedJaguar achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Cambridge, United Kingdom and 2 of the surrounding graticules.
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