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[http://geohashing.info/?lat=51.5&lon=1.5&glat=51&glon=0&date=today Local and adjacent hashpoints.]
 
[http://geohashing.info/?lat=51.5&lon=1.5&glat=51&glon=0&date=today Local and adjacent hashpoints.]
  
The [http://carabiner.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?lat=51&long=1&zoom=8&abs=1 51, 1 graticule] covers the part of the [[United Kingdom]] (UK) from 51° to 52° latitude, and from 1° to 2° longitude.  It covers the eastern end of Kent, and also parts of the Suffolk and Essex coasts.  At low tide, it also includes a tiny piece of a French beach near Calais - 0.00077 of the area. This might be reachable once every three or four years. The sea areas are Thames and Dover.
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The {{Today's location|lat=51|lon=1|text=51, 1 graticule}} covers the part of the [[United Kingdom]] (UK) from 51° to 52° latitude, and from 1° to 2° longitude.  It covers the eastern end of Kent, and also parts of the Suffolk and Essex coasts.  At low tide, it also includes a tiny piece of a French beach near Calais - 0.00077 of the area. This might be reachable once every three or four years. The sea areas are Thames and Dover.
  
 
Canterbury has a couple of inconveniences. It is about 20% land and the Thames estuary splits the graticule. It's 150 km or 90 miles to the nearest river crossing at Dartford and back to the 51, 1 border. There's a ferry (Gravsend to Tilbury), slightly closer, but only for pedestrians and bicycles. In an average month there might be 4 southern zone and 2 northern land hashpoints.
 
Canterbury has a couple of inconveniences. It is about 20% land and the Thames estuary splits the graticule. It's 150 km or 90 miles to the nearest river crossing at Dartford and back to the 51, 1 border. There's a ferry (Gravsend to Tilbury), slightly closer, but only for pedestrians and bicycles. In an average month there might be 4 southern zone and 2 northern land hashpoints.
 
No one has documented an expedition in the southern zone.
 
  
 
== Expeditions and Plans ==
 
== Expeditions and Plans ==

Latest revision as of 16:01, 29 October 2022

Cambridge Norwich North Sea
London East Canterbury Dunkerque, France
Eastbourne Calais, France Arras, France

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Local and adjacent hashpoints.

The 51, 1 graticule covers the part of the United Kingdom (UK) from 51° to 52° latitude, and from 1° to 2° longitude. It covers the eastern end of Kent, and also parts of the Suffolk and Essex coasts. At low tide, it also includes a tiny piece of a French beach near Calais - 0.00077 of the area. This might be reachable once every three or four years. The sea areas are Thames and Dover.

Canterbury has a couple of inconveniences. It is about 20% land and the Thames estuary splits the graticule. It's 150 km or 90 miles to the nearest river crossing at Dartford and back to the 51, 1 border. There's a ferry (Gravsend to Tilbury), slightly closer, but only for pedestrians and bicycles. In an average month there might be 4 southern zone and 2 northern land hashpoints.

Expeditions and Plans

Please post your expedition plans and links here.

2020

  • 13 March 2020 (Fri) Betteshanger Park, Near Deal. Macronencer reached the hash point, which was directly on the cycle track. It was a 300-mile round trip.

2018

2017

All geohashers are cordially invited to the 10th anniversary 2018 geohashing day meetup in the Cambridge UK graticule.


2016

2015

2011

  • 07 July 2011 (Fri): Sourcerer visited the promontory that separates the ports of Harwich and Felixtowe. The hashpoint was right on a public footpath.

2010

  • 21 November 2010 (Sun): Sourcerer visited a small bottle bank in Taunton Road, Walton, Felixtowe, Suffolk, UK. He visited the point and later explored Felixtowe.
  • 24 September 2010 (Fri): Sourcerer and MagicIan visited a sheep field east of East Bergholt, Suffolk, UK. Sourcerer (Neil) made a circular walk on public footpaths with one short cut across a sheep field to take in the hash point. Neil believes this is the first documented expedition in this graticule and claims the virgin geohash. This was hash 1 of a pentahash taking in Canterbury, London East, London West, Northampton and the Cambridge graticules. MagicIan was also trying to lay claim to the virgin geohash in the graticule but was a couple of hours too late.

Local Geohashers

  • 04housemat - Moved from the Weymouth graticule to Canterbury for university.
  • Kitutal - am I all alone here?
  • Sourcerer - Visits as often as posible from the Norwich graticule.