We were on a week’s guided walking holiday with HF Holidays, near the South Downs National Park. We had had 2 days walking (8-10 miles each day), and today was a rest day. We decided on a leisurely day, geoecaching, in the nearby town of Storrington. Storrington is an old town, mentioned in the Domesday ..read more

Hello, Mrs Hg137 here. It had rained a LOT in the last week – almost 2 inches aka 50 mm – but a single dry day was forecast for May 4th and we wanted to get outside.   So off we went to Crazies Hill, a mostly wooded area on the southern edge of the Chilterns ..read more

Spring had finally arrived, the days were drier, the sun was brighter and we planned a 5-6 mile walk around Worting, on the outskirts of Basingstoke. The series we were undertaking was the WW2 series (the second reincarnation of the Worting Walkabout series). There should have been about 20 caches to find, but in the ..read more

Hello, Mrs Hg137 here. We started the Ridgeway long-distance path near Avebury on May Day 2023.  The geocaches we’d planned for that day proved too many for us, so we returned, almost a year on, to finish them.   Most of the caches we would look for were from the Desmond Dogs Ridgeway Romp series, with ..read more

Barkham is a small village about 2 miles south of Wokingham. We have cached in the area before, notably a puzzle series set near Rooks Nest Wood Car Park. It was here we started our latest geocaching adventure. We headed North, to a bridge over an orange stream. We had seen the orange stream before ..read more

The Basingtoke Canal is a 31 mile canal built in the late 1700s which links Basingstoke to the River Thames at Weybridge. Over the years we have walked a fair percentage of the towpath, and today we would add another 3-4 miles to that percentage, and at the same time find a few geocaches! Like ..read more

During our walk around Lynchmere, we discovered a trackable, Thor’s Holiday Tree 2. A plastic, scary, Nordic face connected to a fir tree. The trackable was released in early 2020 into a cache in San Francisco on the Western side of America. During 2020, surprisingly given that the pandemic limited geocacher’s movements, the trackable moved ..read more

Prologue. Despite owning a GPS for geocaching, we do not own a satnav. Whenever we go somewhere new, we (generally Mrs Hg137) surveys google-maps, pores over routes, and even takes the google-map-man on a virtual journey so we understand every nuance of the forthcoming journey. We had the route to Lynchmere committed to memory … as we approached we would arrive at a T-junction, turn left, then right, and shortly after, left again. Easy. Until when we arrived at the T-junction in the car, we turned right not left. We realised our error straightaway, but the road was narrow, with infrequent pas ..read more

Hello, Mrs Hg137 here. South Hill Park, Bracknell Just a quick, local geocaching trip today – to South Hill Park, on the southern edge of Bracknell, for a walk around the park and an attempt at an AdLab cache.  South Hill Park is a large, attractive historic park, open to the public every day of the year.  It has landscaped gardens, woodland, and two large lakes, surrounding a Grade II listed mansion which contains two theatres, a cinema, art studios and galleries, plus a café/restaurant. We’ve walked round the grounds many a time, especially during the pandemic lockdown in 2020, whe ..read more

Elvetham Heath is a relatively new housing estate to the North West of Fleet. It comprises about 2000 dwellings with building work starting in 1999 and it was completed just 10 years later. To the north of the estate is the M3, to the south the main railway line to London. Despite these apparent ‘noisy neighbours’ Elvetham Heath is very pleasant, and surprisingly quiet. In the centre of the estate is a supermarket, a village hall, a school, a church, a pub and many other facilities needed to support its 5000+ population. The central car park is free for a limited time, but we thought (and we ..read more