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  | lat= 52
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  | lon= -0
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  | nw = [[Sheffield, United Kingdom|Sheffield]]
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  | n  = [[Hull, United Kingdom|Hull]]
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  | ne = [[Skegness, United Kingdom|Skegness]]
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  | w  = [[Birmingham, United Kingdom|Birmingham]]
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  | name = [[Northampton, United Kingdom|Northampton]]
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  | e  = [[Cambridge, United Kingdom|Cambridge]]
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  | sw = [[Swindon, United Kingdom|Swindon]]
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  | s  = [[London West, United Kingdom|London West]]
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  | se = [[London East, United Kingdom|London East]]
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}}
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This {{Today's location|lat=52|lon=-0|text=graticule}} covers the parts of the [[United Kingdom]] (UK) from 52° to 53° latitude, and -1° to -0° longitude.  It contains the towns of Northampton, Peterborough and Bedford.  It extends as far east as Royston, and as far west as Buckingham, but not as far as Leicester or Nottingham.  In the south, the graticule nearly reaches to Milton Keynes, and in the north it contains Grantham and Boston.
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When following the XKCD geohashing algorithm, append the fractional hash part to 52° latitude and -0° longitude.  Note the use of negative zero.
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==Graticule activity==
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Saturday meetups are at 4pm UK time.  Other 'spontaneous adventures' are undertaken by some members on any day where the location is accessible.
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== Plans ==
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Please post your planned expeditions here.
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== Expeditions ==
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===2022===
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* [[2022-09-09 52 -0]]: [[User:PeterRoder|PeterRoder]] walked to Campbell Park, Milton Keynes.
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===2019===
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* [[2019-03-29 52 -0]]: [[User:Hedgepig|Hedgepig]] sneaked into a recently sprayed arable field near Cransley Northants.
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* [[2019-03-15 52 -0]]: [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] visited a field off a bridleway in Hardwick, about half a mile from the [[2019-03-15 52 0|52,0 hashpoint]].
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===2018===
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* [[2018-10-16 52 -0]]: [[User:DanQ|Dan Q]] visited a lane in Quinton, Northants.
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* [[2018-05-31 52 -0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a field north of Greetham, Rutland, UK.
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* [[2018-05-26 52 -0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] and [[User:Tongs/B|Tongs/B]] celebrated mouseover day one mile south of Royston railway station, Hertfordshire, UK.
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{{Cambridge/2016 GHD}}
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* [[2018-05-21 52 -0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited woodland south of Bourne, Lincolnshire, UK.
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===2016===
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* [[2016-03-12 52 -0]]: [[User:Tongs|Tongs]] are visiting a field adjacent to a narrow road near Great Eversden.
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===2015===
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* [[2015-12-27 52 -0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a field east of Covington, Cambridgeshire, UK.
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* [[2015-12-23 52 -0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a field, east of Kettering, Northamptonshire, UK.
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* 2015-12-01 52 -0: A footpath in Guilden Morden.  [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] was tempted to make a double expedition (with the [[Cambridge, United Kingdom|Cambridge]] hashpoint near Duxford) in the afternoon but never set out.
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* [[2015-11-14 52 -0]]: [[User:PaintedJaguar|PaintedJaguar]] visited a field between the villages of Lolworth and Boxworth, just outside Cambridge.
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* [[2015-10-16 52 -0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a field south west of Elsworth, Cambridgeshire, UK.
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* [[2015-10-15 52 -0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited the A14/A141 roundabout, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK.
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* [[2015-09-19 52 -0]]: A ploughed field near Broughton, south of Kettering and the A14.  [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] visited on the way from Cambridge to Hereford.
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* [[2015-02-15 52 -0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a new development for the over 55s in Bourne, Lincolnshire, UK.
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* [[2015-02-13 52 -0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a field north of the A52 trunk road north east of Horbling, Lincolnshire, UK.
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* [[2015-01-19 52 -0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] achieved a double pub geohash beside the River Witham in the middle of Boston, Lincolnshire, UK. 6 of 7 today.
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===2014===
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* [[2014-08-23 52 -0]]: [[User:Tongs|The Tongs]] reached the co-ordinates and went for a pleasant walk.
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* [[2014-04-27 52 -0]]: Biggleswade Rugby Club. [[User:Macronencer|Macronencer]] reached the co-ordinates after getting permission from the president on the phone (not Obama).
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* [[2014-02-25 52 -0]]: Literally outside the front door of the Belfry Hotel in Cambourne.  Unfortunately [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] didn't manage to pay it a visit.
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* [[2014-01-22 52 -0]]: A car park, and hopefully an easy one for [[User:parttimesock|parttimesock]]'s first try. '''Update''': Work/life balance fail. Didn't make it.
  
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===2013===
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  | e = [[Cambridge, United Kingdom|Cambridge]]
 
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  | s = [[London West, United Kingdom|London West]]
 
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  | se = [[London East, United Kingdom|London East]]
 
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  | w = [[Birmingham East, United Kingdom|Birmingham East]]
 
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  | sw = [[Swindon, United Kingdom|Swindon]]
 
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  | nw = [[Sheffield, United Kingdom|Sheffield]]
 
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The [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?lat=52&long=-1&zoom=8&abs=1 graticule in Mid East] contains Northampon, Peterborough and Bedford. It extends into Cambridgeshire as far as Royston, goes as far West as Buckingham, but not as far as Leicester or Nottinham. It goes as far South as just below Milton Keynes and contains Grantham and Boston at the top.
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* [[2013-09-28 52 -0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited Duddington, a few metres east of the A43 south of the roundabout where it crosses the A47.
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* [[2013-07-13 52 -0]]: [[User:Nickholden|Nickholden]] tried to get into a field in the Rutland Water nature reserve near Egleton. But it was reserved. For nature.
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* [[2013-06-30 52 -0]]: [[User:PaintedJaguar|PaintedJaguar]] and MrsPaintedJaguar reached the end of Gery Court in Eaton Ford, about one mile west of St. Neots town centre.
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* [[2013-04-14 52 -0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited a grassy meadow north west of Corby beside a disused railway.
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* [[2013-02-18 52 -0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] failed to reach an agricultural field south of the A14, Thrapston, Northamptonshire, UK.
  
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==Locations==
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===2012===
  
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The [[graticule]] has boundaries from 53° to 52° latitude, and -1° to 0° longitude.  When following the XKCD geohashing algorithm, append the fractional hash part to 52° latitude and -0° longitude. Note the use of negative zero.
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* [[2012-11-04 52 -0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] reached a field boundary halfway between Melton Mowbray, famous for pork pies and Grantham, famous as the birth place of Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman prime minister. Mmmmmm - pie!
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* [[2012-09-25 52 -0]]: The edge of a field in Great Eversden.  [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] had to be in the area anyway, so took a quick walk to this and the [[2012-09-25 52 0|Cambridge hashpoint]].
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* [[2012-09-10 52 -0]]: On a track next to a private airfield in Glatton.  [[User:Dr-spangle|Dr-spangle]] (who cycled) and [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] (who drove) met up there.
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* [[2012-08-24 52 -0]]: [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] made ''another'' bicycle double expedition to this hashpoint and the [[Cambridge, United Kingdom|Cambridge]] one, for a total of three double-hashes and 180 km of cycling in a week!
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* [[2012-08-20 52 -0]]: [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] cycled from Cambridge, via the [[2012-08-20 52 0|52,0]] hashpoint.
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* [[2012-08-19 52 -0]]: [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] and [[User:Ali0sha|Ali0sha]] cycled from their respective cities of Cambridge and Oxford, and then went on to the [[2012-08-19 52 0|52,0]] hash.
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* [[2012-08-09 52 -0]]: [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited an attractive urban public path with lawns and mature trees in Wellingborough, UK.
  
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===Europe Issue===
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===2011===
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It has already been flagged on the main page that Europe has an issue where the Dow opens shortly (in our case 90 minutes) before the 4pm meetup time. The algorithm does say to fall back on the "most recent" value, but this means before 2:30pm the official location is different to what it would be if you generated it at 4pm, i.e. when we go to meet the location actually changes if you follow the algorithm to the letter.
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* [[2011-10-21 52 -0]]: In a residential street in Kettering, Northamptonshire, UK. [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] arrived at 18:29.  
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* [[2011-08-22 52 -0]]: In a cattle field south of Gaddesby and north of South Croxton, Leicestershire, UK. [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] logged the walk at [http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=1966727 wikiloc].
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* [[2011-03-20 52 -0]]: In a field about 4.5 miles east of Kettering, UK. [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] achieved multihash 3 of 5.
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* [[2011-02-20 52 -0]]: The corner of a field between Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, and Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, mere metres off a public footpath. [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] went on an early, misty, Sunday morning.
  
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As a workaround for now (assuming you can/want to visit locations during the week), it is proposed that the algorithm is extend with one extra detail in that the official time to run it is 10am local time. This means for us in the UK that we will always use the previous day's Dow and the location doesn't suddenly change at 2:30pm.
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===2010===
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* [[2010-09-24 52 -0]]: Between the goal posts in a children's play area. [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] achieved hash 4 of a pentahash taking in Canterbury, London East, London West, Northampton and the Cambridge graticules.
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* [[2010-09-19 52 -0]] - In Ashley - [[User:joehardflec|Joe]] (re)visited this Sunday hashpoint, after pre-emptively visiting on a balloon retrieve the day before (saturday)
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* [[2010-09-04 52 -0]]: In a residential street in Royston. [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] visited hash 3 of a quad hash covering Hull, Skegness, Northampton and Cambridge.
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* [[2010-08-16 52 -0]]: On a cricket field in Castor village, near Peterborough.  [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] made this the final stop on an over-midnight triple-hash, at 3:32 am.
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* [[2010-07-27 52 -0]]: [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] cycled to Conington from Cambridge for a double hash expedition.
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* [[2010-06-20 52 -0]]: [[User:MagicIan|MagicIan]] reached this geohash - his second of 4-in-a-row this day - in a field near Crowland
  
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Of course, this issue isn't a problem at all for Saturdays given on 10am Saturday morning we're still using the value from 2:30pm Friday.
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===2009===
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* [[2009-10-29 52 -0]]: Just off the Welham/Bowden Lane. [[User:joehardflec|Joe]] did this one just after 4.
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* [[2009-10-02 52 -0]]: Footpath between Burton Overy and Kibworth. [[User:Joehardflec|Joe]] completed a 17km walk geohash.
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* [[2009-09-30 52 -0]]: Ampthill.  [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] is coming from Cambridge to meet [[User:davidc|davidc]], who is coming from Germany via Cardiff, and  [[User:thepiguy|thepiguy]] and [[User:srs0|srs0]] who are coming from Canada via London.  Sort of.  Meeting at the hash at about 4:15pm.
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* [[2009-09-22 52 -0]]: Gumley. [[User:Joehardflec|Joe]] visited on foot as a 14km walk geohash.
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* [[2009-09-19 52 -0]]: It's International Talk Like A Pirate Day and, as luck would have it, our geohash is in Rutland Water! [[User:Happyhannah|Happyhannah]] plans to dress up as a pirate, drag some friends along and try to reach the hash by boat. However, it seems that boats are not available in this area of the reservoir... improvisation might have to occur...
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* [[2009-09-01 52 -0]]: A sports ground in Corby. [[User:Joehardflec|Joe]] went in the pouring rain to try for a MNIMB/Drowned Rat geohash, but had to settle for a 'no trespassing' consolation.
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* [[2009-08-29 52 -0]]: Field between Billesdon Coplow and Houghton. [[User:joehardflec|Joe]] went at Sat. meetup time, and met [[User:Happyhannah|Happyhannah]] nearby, who made her very first Geohash adventure! Joe went on to complete an ambassador geohash to reach the exact point.
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* [[2009-08-28 52 -0]]: Gartree Road  footpath, near Shangton Care Vilage. [[User:joehardflec|Joe]] visited just after noon.
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* [[2009-08-06 52 -0]]: Field near Medbourne. [[User:joehardflec|Joe]] planned to go at around 2-3pm. Aborted due to thunderstorm. MNB.
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* [[2009-06-10 52 -0]]: A field near Tugby, access by footpath. [[User:joehardflec|Joe]] went around 1:30pm. 
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* [[2009-04-27 52 -0]]: In the middle of the road in Eastrea.  [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] got his second [[speed racer achievement]], only 22 minutes after his first in the [[Cambridge, United Kingdom|Cambridge]] graticule.
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* [[2009-04-23 52 -0]]: In Waresley Wood, near Little Gransden.  [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] visited in the early afternoon as the first stop on an all-bicycle double hash.
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* [[2009-03-11 52 -0]]: Another field, visited by [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] as part of another Prime Meridian Double Geohash expedition.
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* [[2009-03-09 52 -0]]: A field just outside Peterborough.  [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] paid another visit from Cambridge as part of a [[Multihash|Triple Geohash]].
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* [[2009-01-26 52 -0]]: Today's coordinates fell onto wasteland by the Serpentine Green shopping centre near Peterborough.  [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] paid a visit from the Cambridge graticule to try out his new GPS receiver.
  
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===2008===
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* [[2008-09-20 52 -0]]: Pre-emptive balloon flight and a Déjà-Vu Geohash by [[User:Joehardflec|Joe]].
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* [[2008-09-12 52 -0]]: [[User:joehardflec|Joe]] got close to the geohash location just outside King's Norton, Leics, by cycle in an attempt to achieve the Bicycle Geohash. Photos on the expedition page.
  
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Meetup on Saturday 4pm UK time.
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==Local geohashers==
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* [[User:7thSpringRunner|7thSpringRunner]] is in Oxford during term-time, and Bicester the rest of the time, so not far from MK hashes.
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* [[User:Benjw|Benjw]] lives in Cambridge but often makes a foray across the border on a [[double hash]] expedition.
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* [[User:Happyhannah|Happyhannah]] lives in Oakham, Rutland and is pedal, petrol and occasionally Avgas powered.
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* [[User:Jonqrandom|jonqrandom]] lives in Peterborough, Cambs, and is with [[User:Insane_jane|insanejane]] and veg-oil powered :)
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* [[User:Insane_jane|insanejane]] lives in Peterborough, Cambs, and is with [[User:Jonqrandom|jonqrandom]] :)
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* [[User:Transhumanist|Transhumanist]] lives in Warboys, near Huntingdon, and is currently foot/bus-powered but working to improve that.
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* [[User:Tongs|The Tongs]] are just outside this graticule in Cambridge, but can see themselves wandering into it at some point.
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* [[User:PeterRoder|PeterRoder]] lives in Milton Keynes when he's not at uni in [[52,0]]
  
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Sign your name here to indicate you'll come before Saturday 12pm local time.  You may remove your signature anytime before 12pm as well. - the event is only on if 3 or more people have signed their name by 12pm exactly. To sign your name click "edit" for the required date, type <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> at the bottom of the page and click save - it's ok to not have a wiki account, just don't sign twice!
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===Inactive===
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* [[User:joehardflec|Joe]] lived just across the graticule border near Leicester, but has now moved further away. Not currently checking hashpoints.  
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* [[User:Android|Android]]
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* [[User:AvengerPenguin|AvengerPenguin]]
  
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Top tip:  Make yourself an account and add this page to the "watchlist" and turn on email notifications - then you get notified when an events going ahead!
 
  
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===Signatures for Sat 24th May 2008:===
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None Yet!
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[[Category:Inactive graticules]]

Latest revision as of 00:42, 12 March 2023

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This graticule covers the parts of the United Kingdom (UK) from 52° to 53° latitude, and -1° to -0° longitude. It contains the towns of Northampton, Peterborough and Bedford. It extends as far east as Royston, and as far west as Buckingham, but not as far as Leicester or Nottingham. In the south, the graticule nearly reaches to Milton Keynes, and in the north it contains Grantham and Boston.

When following the XKCD geohashing algorithm, append the fractional hash part to 52° latitude and -0° longitude. Note the use of negative zero.

Graticule activity

Saturday meetups are at 4pm UK time. Other 'spontaneous adventures' are undertaken by some members on any day where the location is accessible.

Plans

Please post your planned expeditions here.

Expeditions

2022

2019

2018

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

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

  • 2011-10-21 52 -0: In a residential street in Kettering, Northamptonshire, UK. Sourcerer arrived at 18:29.
  • 2011-08-22 52 -0: In a cattle field south of Gaddesby and north of South Croxton, Leicestershire, UK. Sourcerer logged the walk at wikiloc.
  • 2011-03-20 52 -0: In a field about 4.5 miles east of Kettering, UK. Sourcerer achieved multihash 3 of 5.
  • 2011-02-20 52 -0: The corner of a field between Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, and Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, mere metres off a public footpath. Benjw went on an early, misty, Sunday morning.

2010

  • 2010-09-24 52 -0: Between the goal posts in a children's play area. Sourcerer achieved hash 4 of a pentahash taking in Canterbury, London East, London West, Northampton and the Cambridge graticules.
  • 2010-09-19 52 -0 - In Ashley - Joe (re)visited this Sunday hashpoint, after pre-emptively visiting on a balloon retrieve the day before (saturday)
  • 2010-09-04 52 -0: In a residential street in Royston. Sourcerer visited hash 3 of a quad hash covering Hull, Skegness, Northampton and Cambridge.
  • 2010-08-16 52 -0: On a cricket field in Castor village, near Peterborough. Benjw made this the final stop on an over-midnight triple-hash, at 3:32 am.
  • 2010-07-27 52 -0: Benjw cycled to Conington from Cambridge for a double hash expedition.
  • 2010-06-20 52 -0: MagicIan reached this geohash - his second of 4-in-a-row this day - in a field near Crowland

2009

  • 2009-10-29 52 -0: Just off the Welham/Bowden Lane. Joe did this one just after 4.
  • 2009-10-02 52 -0: Footpath between Burton Overy and Kibworth. Joe completed a 17km walk geohash.
  • 2009-09-30 52 -0: Ampthill. Benjw is coming from Cambridge to meet davidc, who is coming from Germany via Cardiff, and thepiguy and srs0 who are coming from Canada via London. Sort of. Meeting at the hash at about 4:15pm.
  • 2009-09-22 52 -0: Gumley. Joe visited on foot as a 14km walk geohash.
  • 2009-09-19 52 -0: It's International Talk Like A Pirate Day and, as luck would have it, our geohash is in Rutland Water! Happyhannah plans to dress up as a pirate, drag some friends along and try to reach the hash by boat. However, it seems that boats are not available in this area of the reservoir... improvisation might have to occur...
  • 2009-09-01 52 -0: A sports ground in Corby. Joe went in the pouring rain to try for a MNIMB/Drowned Rat geohash, but had to settle for a 'no trespassing' consolation.
  • 2009-08-29 52 -0: Field between Billesdon Coplow and Houghton. Joe went at Sat. meetup time, and met Happyhannah nearby, who made her very first Geohash adventure! Joe went on to complete an ambassador geohash to reach the exact point.
  • 2009-08-28 52 -0: Gartree Road footpath, near Shangton Care Vilage. Joe visited just after noon.
  • 2009-08-06 52 -0: Field near Medbourne. Joe planned to go at around 2-3pm. Aborted due to thunderstorm. MNB.
  • 2009-06-10 52 -0: A field near Tugby, access by footpath. Joe went around 1:30pm.
  • 2009-04-27 52 -0: In the middle of the road in Eastrea. Benjw got his second speed racer achievement, only 22 minutes after his first in the Cambridge graticule.
  • 2009-04-23 52 -0: In Waresley Wood, near Little Gransden. Benjw visited in the early afternoon as the first stop on an all-bicycle double hash.
  • 2009-03-11 52 -0: Another field, visited by Benjw as part of another Prime Meridian Double Geohash expedition.
  • 2009-03-09 52 -0: A field just outside Peterborough. Benjw paid another visit from Cambridge as part of a Triple Geohash.
  • 2009-01-26 52 -0: Today's coordinates fell onto wasteland by the Serpentine Green shopping centre near Peterborough. Benjw paid a visit from the Cambridge graticule to try out his new GPS receiver.

2008

  • 2008-09-20 52 -0: Pre-emptive balloon flight and a Déjà-Vu Geohash by Joe.
  • 2008-09-12 52 -0: Joe got close to the geohash location just outside King's Norton, Leics, by cycle in an attempt to achieve the Bicycle Geohash. Photos on the expedition page.

Local geohashers

  • 7thSpringRunner is in Oxford during term-time, and Bicester the rest of the time, so not far from MK hashes.
  • Benjw lives in Cambridge but often makes a foray across the border on a double hash expedition.
  • Happyhannah lives in Oakham, Rutland and is pedal, petrol and occasionally Avgas powered.
  • jonqrandom lives in Peterborough, Cambs, and is with insanejane and veg-oil powered :)
  • insanejane lives in Peterborough, Cambs, and is with jonqrandom :)
  • Transhumanist lives in Warboys, near Huntingdon, and is currently foot/bus-powered but working to improve that.
  • The Tongs are just outside this graticule in Cambridge, but can see themselves wandering into it at some point.
  • PeterRoder lives in Milton Keynes when he's not at uni in 52,0

Inactive

  • Joe lived just across the graticule border near Leicester, but has now moved further away. Not currently checking hashpoints.
  • Android
  • AvengerPenguin
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