English Regions - Oldest Challenge Mystery Cache
Hidden : 12/25/2013
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This is quite a large challenge which will take significant travel and time to achieve. For anyone that does complete the challenge, there will be a great sense of achievement.

Cache N 53° 19.711 W 003° 03.425 Unknown Small Difficulty 5 Terrain 2 This is quite a large challenge which will take significant travel and time to achieve. For anyone that does complete the challenge, there will be a great sense of achievement.

Before finding this cache (at the listed co-ordinates) you must meet the criteria listed below.

1. English geocaches are assigned to ten regions on the www.geocaching.com website.
2. The Oldest is defined as the earliest GC code (as opposed to the user entered ‘Placed Date’)
3. Finds that occurred prior to this cache being published qualify.
4. Archived geocaches for a region qualify provided that :
a) They were live/active at the time you found them.
b) Their GC code is earlier than the current active fifth oldest geocache for the region.
c) No other older archived geocaches have been identified as being active at the time of your find meaning it was not one of the five oldest in its region at the time of your find.
5. You must have visited the location and ‘found’ one of the five oldest caches in each of the ten English regions. Thus traveling caches, locationless caches, any ‘found’ without the need to visit the listed co-ordinates, and all type of events do not qualify.

Your find log should list the ten English regions together with GC code, name, placed date and date of your find for each of your qualifying caches.

Listed below are the five oldest active caches for each English region. If any of these get archived I will update the list with the new ‘oldest’ for that region (the archived ones will remain with a strikeout and can be counted if they had been found). The full list is also provided as a bookmark list.


“MAP OF THE OLDEST ACTIVE GEOCACHE IN EACH ENGLISH REGION”

Region GC Code Geocache Name Placed Date
East Midlands GC1C09 Alien's Hideaway 9-Sep-2001
GC1C55 Help! Peter's in the Rushes. (S Notts) 12-Sep-2001
GC2024 Major Oak 02-Oct-2001
GC22E0 Accessible by Horse 13-Oct-2001
GC31D3 Dumbledore's Retreat 12-Jan-2002
Eastern England GC164F Entology (Herts) * see note 1 12-Aug-2001
GC1984 Holkham Haul 24-Aug-2001
GC2561 Welwyn Woodlands 29-Oct-2001
GC26F2 `Silent Sentinel` Kelling (N Norfolk) 05-Nov-2001
GC3C7F Cold War – No More (Essex) 23-Feb-2002
GC476E heydon walk 31-Mar-2002
GC4777 Dizzy @ Fellbrigg Hall 27-Mar-2002
London GC22E5 A Meating place for Martyrs 16-Oct-2001
GC2822 Sherlock 1 - The game is afoot! 27-Oct-2001
GC2823 Sherlock 2 - I suppose, Watson... 27-Oct-2001
GC2824 Sherlock 3 - The wages of sin, Watson! 27-Oct-2001
GC2825 Sherlock 4 - I cannot live without brainwork! 27-Oct-2001
Northeast England GC781 Angels View (Tyne & Wear) 22-Apr-2001
GCAA2 Percy's Cross (Northumberland) 28-May-2001
GC1330 Where's Georges Kidney Stone (Northumberland) 28-Jul-2001
GC1A56 Prime Meridian North {E Yorks} 02-Sep-2001
GC242D Spirit of Jarrow * see note 2 23-Oct-2001
GC24D0 Angels View View!!! (Tyne & Wear) 27-Oct-2001
Northwest England GCBEC Lead Mines Clough 10-Jun-2001
GC1688 Sankey Waters 14-Aug-2001
GC26F8 Rufford Branch {S Lancs} 7-Nov-2001
GC28D2 Clough Head Surprise 17-Nov-2001
GC2AF9 Risley Moss 2-Dec-2001
GC2E4D Alberts Famine 27-Dec-2001
GC3111 ”YOMPING Yet Again” 7-Jan-2002
GC33CE Hampsfield Hospice (Cumbria) 20-Jan-2002
GC3512 Lakes-Cam 20-Jan-2002
South East England GC164F Entology (Herts) * see note 1 12-Aug-2001
GC19B2 Florida comes to Findon * see note 2 22-Aug-2001
GC1D33 Why Wye? 16-Sep-2001
GC1D9F Garden of England 18-Sep-2001
GC1EB0 Leviathan 24-Sep-2001
GC1EBC That Old Chestnut! 26-Dec-2001
South West England GC1AC1 Pulpit Rock 22-Aug-2001
GC1B1D Hell Bay 24-Aug-2001
GC1B27 Harry's Wall 29-Aug-2001
GC1C5D Glastonbury Tor 01-Sep-2001
GC1C5F Tintagel Castle * see note 2 02-Sep-2001
GC1C7A Scilly Island Hopper 06-Sep-2001
GC3018 Exmoors First 31-Dec-2001
GC3E65 Lamb Stew 06-Sep-2001
GC476A The Cornwall cache 06-Sep-2001
Southern England GC171 View from Coombe Hill 14-Jan-2001
GC177 Tim & Jon's 1st Re-Stashed 14-Jan-2001
GCBE3 The Queens Oak 11-Jun-2001
GC18BC Tim's No 2 - The Second Attempt 25-Aug-2001
GC18FA Glorious Gloucestershire 26-Aug-2001
GC23AD BP's Brownsea Island 16-Aug-2001
West Midlands GC1D38 Chase Memorial 16-Sep-2001
GC1E75 Barbed Wyre 23-Sep-2001
GC20ED Shropshire View * see note 2 07-Oct-2001
GC3F14 Of all the trees that are in the wood... 03-Mar-2002
GC45ED Iron Age Cache 26-Mar-2002
GC487A A Kings Retreat? 02-Mar-2002
Yorkshire GC1729 Tigger heads South 18-Aug-2001
GC2486 A Moravian Walk (W Yorks) 25-Oct-2001
GC24CD Leeds Web-Cam Cache 27-Oct-2001
GC3360 Steers View * see note 2 19-Jan-2002
GC36C7 HikingBare's Den 02-Feb-2002
GC39DA Doin' Time (N Yorks) 14-Feb-2002
GC3A42 Windy Hill 16-Feb-2002


* Note 1 : Entology (Herts) - GC164F was originally listed as being in South Eastern England, and in 2016 was changed to Eastern England. If found in or before 2016 you may count it for South Eastern England, and if found in or after 2016 count it for Eastern England. However, if you found it in 2016 you may only count if for one (not both) regions.
* Note 2 : These caches were previously wildcards (no region selected) but now have been assigned regions, so have been moved to the appropriate groups.

Although this in a challenge for English geocaching regions, please indicate if you have also found any of the oldest caches in the Scottish and Welsh regions.

Region GC Code Geocache Name Placed Date
North Wales GC1873 Waterfalls Spectacular 23-Aug-2001
GC1BB4 Anglesey, Penrhos park 08-Sep-2001
GC1DEA Anglesey, Holyhead Mountain 20-Sep-2001
GC1E7E Tarren Memorial 20-Sep-2001
GC1E2C Moel Famau - Mother Mountain (North Wales) 22-Sep-2001
GC1E84 Tal-y-Llyn Adventure (Gwynedd) 21-Sep-2001
South Wales GC2BA The First in Wales 17-Feb-2001
GC2E3F Ty Canol woods 27-Dec-2001
GC4664 Lord Hereford's Knob 28-Mar-2002
GC5250 pen y fantastic (The Beacon) 28-Apr-2002
GC769D Melin Court Falls 27-Jul-2002
Northern Scotland GCF0 Scotland’s First 15-Dec-2000
GC1A6E Slorach's Wood, Fochabers 02-Sep-2001
GC2223 Crescent Buttress 13-Oct-2001
GC3E9B Rogie Falls 02-Mar-2002
GC4B33 Rock hopper 08-Mar-2002
Southern Scotland GCED4 Islay's First 20-Jun-2001
GC132F Reivers Revenge (Scottish Borders, Just!) 28-Jul-2001
GC1C4D Ben View 10-Sep-2001
GC2BD4 A hike (or cycle ) in the Pentland Hill 09-Dec-2001
GC327F Mabie's Forest Trail 12-Jan-2002

There is a CHALLENGE CHECKER to monitor your progress with this challenge.

Good Luck, and enjoy your travels around England to find these historic geocaches.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ernpu hc gb n funql pbeare (ba gbc bs jbbqra oybpx)

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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