Black Country Ay We

This is our first trackable so thought it would be fitting to go for a black country flag as a piece.

The simple mission we want to set is to see how many miles it can do without leaving the good old Black Country

It will be interesting to see where people class the boundaries of the Black Country to be as it has been a controversial conversation to have depending on where you come from within the Midlands.

Please don't hold onto it for long, keep it moving as quick as possible to see how quick it can rack up the miles locally.

We'll be updating the distance goal as and when but starting off with a nice and easy 100 km set today (12/05/16)

second target 2000 miles (19/7/20)

Happy Caching!

The Black Country is an area of the West Midlands in England, West of Birmingham, including Dudley, Walsall and Sandwell. In the Industrial Revolution, it became one of the most industrialised parts of Britain with coal mines, coking, iron foundries and steel mills producing a high level of air pollution.

The 14-mile (23 km) road between Wolverhampton and Birmingham was described as "one continuous town" in 1785.The first trace of The Black Country as an expression dates from the 1840s and it is believed that name comes from the soot from heavy industries that covered the area, although the 30-foot-thick coal seam close to the surface is another possible reason.

The Black Country has no defined borders but to traditionalists is defined as "the area where the coal seam comes to the surface – so Brierley Hill, West Bromwich, Oldbury, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, Old Hill, Bilston, Dudley, Netherton, Tipton, and parts of Wednesbury, Halesowen and Walsall but not Wolverhampton, Stourbridge and Smethwick. Today it commonly refers to the majority of the four Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. Although it is said that "no two Black Country men or women will agree on where it starts or ends".Birmingham and the Black Country are neighbouring areas located in the English West Midlands. The Black Country has no agreed physical or political boundaries being defined instead of what is it is not, and primarily, by its residents, in opposition to the neighbouring large city of Birmingham.