Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hull	Skegness	North Sea
Northampton	Cambridge	Norwich
London West	London East	Canterbury

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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 is the UK's most active graticule for geohashing, and although most of its activity is based around Cambridge itself, new hashers and meetups in any part of the graticule are always welcome.

The area

The Cambridge graticule covers not only the county of Cambridgeshire, but also parts of Hertfordshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Lincolnshire. Most of it 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.

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 local one. However, the hashpoints in the two graticules occasionally fall quite close together near the meridian, offering a good opportunity for a Double geohash.

Future plans

Wednesday 8 April 2009

A similar distance (from Cambridge, that is) to yesterday's geohash. Benjw plans to cycle there and back (along the cycle path through Quy, Bottisham, the Swaffhams and Burwell), and will probably set off from Cambridge around 2:30pm, arriving at the hash sometime around 4pm.

Please leave your name here if you plan to make it to the hashpoint (at any time of the day).

Past activity

Cambridge has now become easily the UK's most active and most successful graticule, and is (at time of writing) also the world's 13th most active and joint-9th most successful graticule. Hurrah for us!  :-)

2009

• 7 Apr 2009 (Tue): In someone's garden on a farm just outside Dullingham, south of Newmarket. Benjw cycled the 28 mile round trip and acquired permission to access the hashpoint just after 4pm.

• 3 Apr 2009 (Fri): On the pavement in Hills Avenue, Cambridge. Too good to miss; Benjw cycled and was there at 4:30pm.

• 28 Mar 2009 (Sat): Another Saturday meetup, but only Benjw showed up. In a planted field, a few metres off a public footpath in Ousden, SE of Newmarket. There was hail and squelchy mud.

• 23 Mar 2009 (Mon): The side of a house in Hauxton, very near Cambridge. Benjw was expecting to be an Ambassador, but nobody was at home.

• 19 Mar 2009 (Thu): No expedition. Benjw was planning to go to this Field Geohash between Stretham and Ely, but didn't actually make it in the end.

• 16 Mar 2009 (Mon): Field Geohash northeast of Newmarket, visited by train by Benjw on a hot and sunny afternoon.

• 11 Mar 2009 (Wed): Another Field Geohash, visited by Benjw as part of a Prime Meridian Double Geohash expedition.

• 9 Mar 2009 (Mon): Yet another field, this time in Outwell, near Wisbech. Benjw went as part of a Triple Geohash expedition.

• 6 Mar 2009 (Fri): Another field near Ashdon, Essex, 850m from the 4 Feb hashpoint. Benjw visited in the late afternoon.

• 28 Feb 2009 (Sat): The first Saturday meetup in this grat since last June. Benjw and Stephen Turner met at a stud farm near Newmarket.

• 4 Feb 2009 (Wed): A field near Ashdon, Essex, just off a public bridleway. Benjw made it through the snow at about 4pm, after work.

• 1 Feb 2009 (Sun): At the edge of woodland just off the Roman road north of Horseheath. Benjw made an early morning trip.

• 26 Jan 2009 (Mon): Today's coordinates fell within a squelchy field a bit east of March, about 25 miles north of Cambridge. Benjw took the opportunity to try out his new GPS receiver.

2008

Four expeditions took place in 2008. These are detailed on the 2008 archive page.

Local Geohashers

The following are known to be currently active:

• Benjw is in central Cambridge and is realatively new to Geohashing. He would like to go on a bicycle expedition soon, but will settle for a car trip if the weather's inclement.
• Gooseh is bike powered, though willing to cycle within a 15 mile radius of Cambridge provided it's sunny. He can occasionally procure 4 wheeled petrol powered methods of transport. He's unfortunately in more Northerly climes during term time.
• Stephen Turner is bike-powered.

Other hashers have previously been active in this graticule; they are listed on the 2008 archive page.