Cambridge, United Kingdom

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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, and although most of its activity is based around Cambridge itself, new hashers and meetups in any part of the graticule are most definitely welcome. Meetups are always good!

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 graticule, no matter how close to the border you are. However, if the day's coordinates fall close to the meridian, then the hashpoints in the two graticules will be quite close together, offering a good opportunity for a Double geohash.

As most of the graticule is very flat countryside, and Cambridge itself is arguably the "cycling capital of England", this graticule offers excellent opportunities for bicycle geohashing.

Future plans

The Saturday July 14th hash looks impossible on Google maps but the tide goes out a long way. It might be possible at about 10:30 am and again in the late evening. Sourcerer 10:57, 13 July 2012 (EDT)

Past activity

See also: Category:Meetup in 52 0.

Cambridge enjoyed spikes of activity in mid-2008 and early 2009, and remains the UK's most geohashed graticule (with 46 expeditions to 28 October 2010, of which 39 have been successful). Happily, mid-2010 appears to be providing another fresh set of expeditions involving a few different geohashers. Here's what's happened recently.

2011

• 20 November 2011 (Sun): Sourcerer visited the hashpoint ten paces off a public footpath between Old Newton village and the main line railway from London to Norwich, 2 miles north of Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK.

• 17 September 2011 (Sat): Sourcerer visited a road hashpoint half a kilometre north east of Brisley, Norfolk, UK.

• 03 July 2011 (Sun): Sourcerer visited the grounds of Denston Hall 15 km south west of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK, logged at wikiloc.

• 26 June 2011 (Sun): Sourcerer visited the mud and sand flats quite a long way off shore, north of Wells Next the Sea, Norfolk, UK. Logged at Wikiloc.

• 20 March 2011 (Sun): Sourcerer reached multihash 4 of 5 in a Thetford Forest field about a mile west of the Elveden Center Parcs holiday centre west of Thetford, Norfolk, UK.

• 20 February 2011 (Sun): Benjw and Sourcerer reached the hashpoint on a minor road east of Little Chesterford, near Cambridge, UK.

• 17 January 2011 (Mon): Sourcerer reached the hashpoint near the western limit of the nudist beach at Holkham, North Norfolk, UK at about 8pm.

• 01 January 2011 (Sat): Sourcerer reached a muddy field near the A14 trunk road north of Woolpit, Suffolk, UK at exactly midnight.

2010

• 26 December 2010 (Sun): Sourcerer visited a deeply frozen field between Castle Acre and Lexham, north of Swaffham, Norfolk UK arriving at about 7.30 pm.

• 25 December 2010 (Sat): Sourcerer failed to reach a wetland with mature trees standing in pools of water covered with ice. West of Great Hockham, Norfolk, UK. It was the first hour of Christmas day.

• 28 November 2010 (Sun): Sourcerer visited a snowy wood of beech and oak, west of Snettisham, Norfolk UK, logged on Wikiloc

• 2 November 2010 (Tue): In a field north of Stansfield, Suffolk. Benjw was there at about 3:30pm.

• 28 October 2010 (Thu): In Thetford Forest. Benjw was there just after 4 pm, and enjoyed both the tranquility of the pine woodland, and a rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner from the nearby RAF base.

• 20 October 2010 (Wed): Between woodland and a field, north of Bury St Edmunds. Benjw went, but couldn't get permission to access the point, despite local tenants egging him on.

• 12 October 2010 (Tue): In a field west of Soham. Benjw cycled a 27-mile round trip, along nearly every type of road and path known to man.

• 11 October 2010 (Mon): On the A14 just north of Newmarket. Benjw drove through the hashpoint at 8:39 pm.

• 2 October 2010 (Sat): On a public footpath outside Stretham, near Ely. Benjw arrived at about 6:30 pm and found a geocache a mere ten metres away.

• 1 October 2010 (Fri): Under a hedge in a field near Harston, south of Cambridge. Benjw visited, although it took two attempts to get the right spot.

• 24 September 2010 (Fri): A grassy area between two houses east of Boston, Lincolnshire. Sourcerer arrived 90 seconds before midnight and waited for the hashpoint to vanish. This was hash 5 of a pentahash taking in Canterbury, London East, London West, Northampton and the Cambridge graticules.

• 19 September 2010 (Sun): A conifer plantation between the Peddar's Way long distance footpath and Great Hockham, Norfolk. Sourcerer visited this spot. The GPS path is available at Wikiloc.

• 04 September 2010 (Sat): A sugar beet field east of Royston. Sourcerer visited this spot. It was the fourth point of a quad-hash covering Hull, Skegness, Northampton and Cambridge.

• 16 August 2010 (Mon): Off a footpath in a cornfield somewhere in the Fens. Benjw visited at 1:41 am as part of an over-midnight triple-hash expedition.

• 15 August 2010 (Sun): In a cornfield off the A1101 northwest of Littleport. Benjw made it a midnight geohash as part of a triple expedition.

• 14 August 2010 (Sat): Off a footpath through Easty Wood, near Cavendish, Suffolk. Benjw wasn't able to make a 4pm meetup, but went later in the evening.

• 13 August 2010 (Fri): A field, this time still full of corn, on the edge of Littleport. Benjw visited in the pouring rain at 4:30pm.

• 11 August 2010 (Wed): In a harvested cornfield at the south end of Soham. Benjw visited in the dark, at about 10:30pm.

• 10 August 2010 (Tue): At the edge of a field near North Pickenham, Norfolk. Benjw eventually found the village, but was halted by a "keep out" sign on the farm track.

• 7 August 2010 (Sat): In an elderberry tree near Syderstone. Sourcerer visited as part of a day trip to the north Norfolk coast.

• 2 August 2010 (Mon): On conservation land in Lakenheath Warren. Benjw discovered that it is unaccessible during the summer months.

• 30 July 2010 (Fri): By the side of a road west of Saffron Walden. Benjw visited in his lunch break.

• 27 July 2010 (Tue): On a public footpath through the golf course in Longstanton. Benjw cycled, and then on to the Northampton grat expedition.

• 22 July 2010 (Thu): Benjw drove through the hashpoint at nearly 70mph, on the A11 sliproad at Six Mile Bottom.

• 19 July 2010 (Mon): Benjw strolled up a hill and around a field near Little Shelford on the way home from work.

• 20 June 2010 (Sun): MagicIan completed this hash - his third of 4-in-a-row on this day - in an orchard near Wisbech.

• 7 January 2010 (Thu): Benjw attempted to get to a field in Hauxton, but was refused permission to enter private property.

2009

Eighteen expeditions took place during 2009. These are detailed on the 2009 archive page.

2008

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

Local Geohashers

See also: Category:Geohashers in 52,0.

The following are known to be currently active:

• Benjw is in central Cambridge. He hashes by bicycle and car, but is unfortunately having to concentrate on university work until his finals in October.
• 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.
• MagicIan is in the Norwich graticule.
• Sourcerer is also in the Norwich graticule.
• Stephen Turner is bike-powered.
• Transhumanist is in the Northampton graticule, but still considers himself a Cambridge resident and is working on improved means of transport.

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