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Sat 12 Sep 2015 in 51,-1:
51.1193204, -1.7949829
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Location

A field in Wiltshire, just north of Salisbury and the ancient fortification of Old Sarum, just south of the even more ancient monument Stonehenge.

Participants

SpiritofMaurice

Plans

I drove up for an airshow nearby where I hoped to see XH558, the world's last flying Vulcan bomber, on her final flight ever down south. Noticing this was just a couple of kilometres away... "how hard could it be?"

Expedition

Followed Google Maps as close as I could to the lat/long point, where I noticed three things as the hashpoint zipped past on my left: a), nowhere to stop the car on a fast road; b), some pretty big hedges

Drove around to a small English country lane, eventually parked up and started walking along a public footpath. Across a pig farm!

Eventually lost track of the path, started following my nose (and GPS app) across two fields... (more to follow)

Photos

Achievements

Watergeohash.jpg
Sourcerer earned the Water geohash achievement
by reaching the (55, -17) geohash on 2012-07-22 by fantasy.
2011-12-19 43 32 Sourcerer 6 Hash Kitty.jpg