Eastern England
Eastern England is probably my “cachiest” region of the UK. It’s not where I live (or lived), but it was close. No, the reason for the region’s prevalence in my caching stats is the presence of three of the UK’s biggest cache setters. ryo62, poshrule and IzaakWilson are or were all from the area. Well, they lived in Cambridgeshire or Hertfordshire anyway. Between them they were responsible for the area known as the Cachemuda Triangle. A veritable cornucopia of cachiness in a pleasantly rolling argricultural landscape punctuated by small vilages and towns.
So anyway, back at the plot.
Where is it?
Clearly it’s on the eastern side. Of England.
According to geocaching stats, it consists of six counties:
- Bedfordshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Essex
- Hertfordshire
- Norfolk
- Suffolk
The Sketch
Of these, the three closest to my former home, and also containing the Cachemuda Triangle are Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. As a result I have some pretty high stats there. Most areas were accessible in less than 90 minutes from where I used to live in Milton Keynes. That means the area was ideal for day trips. An early start would mean I could be out and about finding caches by 8am. On long days in the summer I could keep going until well after 8 pm, meaning that days of 100 or more finds (all walked) were very possible.
My most visited areas are probably the corridor along the A1 between Huntingdon and Peterborough, and the ryo62 heartland to the north of Royston. I’ve been there so many times that I could pick my way to new caching series almost without looking at a map.
Somehow, because of the peculiarities of English geography, some areas of Eastern England were well to the south and west of where I lived in Milton Keynes, and would, to me, be much more “southern” in character. Much of Bedfordshire, for instance, and the bit of Hertfordshire that hooks into Bedfordshire and/or stretches all the way across to Hemel Hempstead. SO the posts for Eastern England contain ones that I regard as Southern. But hey ho!
The other three counties, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, are ones that arrived quite late in my caching career. I still had a good few trips out there though – full day trips usually, involving leaving home at some unearthly hour of the morning and getting home just about in time to watch Match of the Day. In fact, some pretty epic days have been had out there, including a couple of monster days near Thetford and one in Norwich.
Individual Posts
So here are all the blog posts I’ve written for the East of England.
