England's Oldest Surviving Geocache

When we were in Chesham at the weekend, we took the opportunity to visit England’s oldest geocache. There was a delightful irony in visiting a cache called “A view from Coombe Hill” when visibility was down to 50 yards but despite that, the pleasure of discovering such an old cache wasn’t diminished. Placed in January 2001, it has become a place of caching pilgrimage, visited over 1000 times, with many of those visits in more recent years as the cache has aged and geocaching challenges that involve finding and logging elderly caches have been introduced. I’m glad we found it!