In selecting the location for this cache I met a snag. The true
most easterly point of Buckinghamshire is in the centre of the A40
dual carriageway between the eastern end of the M40 and Swakeleys
Roundabout. I don’t think the Highways Agency or the police
would be too impressed if I started sending people there. The next
most easterly point is in the Chess Valley, and already has a cache
within 600 feet. So I have opted for another prominent easterly
point, and this also has the advantage of giving the whole series a
more balanced look, far more suitable as compass points The county
boundary runs through a crop field from the north west, and then at
a point some way from the edge of the field turns at a right angle
to the south west. Bedfordshire is to the east and Hertfordshire
just a short distance to the south The cache is adjacent to the
public footpath at about the nearest point the boundary comes to
the edge of the field. There are a number of ways to approach to
the area; I parked at N 51° 49.690 W 0° 31.512 from where there
is a pleasant walk past a couple of fields and through woods along
well defined paths.
Disclaimer: In
arriving at the locations for this series of caches I have used the
2002 Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 scale maps, on paper and running in
MemoryMap. The Ordnance Survey is the definitive mapping authority
in this country, and comparison with other series or other scales
or other vintage of maps may give different results. I stick with
the Ordnance Survey (with additional qualifications as specified
for Compass Point East), and in any case, as somebody well known in
Buckinghamshire geocaching circles once said, “It’s
just a hunt for a lunch box, why be so
serious?”