East Midlands

The East Midlands

The East Midlands is my second home, and the place of my birth. As a result, there’ve been quite a few caching visits over various times.

My parents have always lived in the area. They were brought up in the North-West Leicestershire / South Derbyshire area. When I was a little kid they moved to rural Nottinghamshire because my dad applied for (and got) a new job at one of the power stations in Megawatt Valley.

My enduring memory is that I was bought up in Southwell. I was six when we moved there. It’s where I feel like I’m from, as I have little memory of the years before we moved there. Once me and my brother had gone, and both parents had retired, they moved back to their home area.

So when I had my own children, North-West Leicestershire became “Granny and Grandad’s”, and hence we visited the area pretty regularly. We probably went to visit between six and ten times a year while the kids were little.

Anyway, you’ll see here that I’ve included here some caching days from all counties in the region – Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire. Some people also class Northamptonshire as being in the East Midlands, but I don’t think I agree with that classification. The character is very different.

Just to complicate matters, the area around North-West Leicestershire and South Derbyshire is also very close to Warwickshire and Staffordshire, and those two are definitely not in the East Midlands.

Here are all the geocaching blog posts I’ve written about the East Midlands.