Our Top 10 Geocaches of 2019

We’ve had a fantastic year finding caches in the East of England, East Midlands, Yorkshire, Manchester and on the South East coast. Plus even further a field in Ireland and Mexico!

But with so many great series’, hides and inventive cache containers, which were the best? 

After a lot of debating we came up with our top 10 caches of 2019 - those we found the most fun, inventive and memorable. So here they are: 
1. Europe’s First- Traditional (Bray, Ireland) CO: Donnacha / Chris O’Byrne 


2. El Castillo - Virtual (Chichen Itza, Mexico) CO: Valenrandy

3. Secret Call - Multi - and The Ghost of the Corpus Clock - mystery (Dublin, Ireland & Cambridge UK) CO: Danielk 1bg and Shadyone44 & Danielk 1bg

4. Ghostly Peterborough - Wherigo (Peterborough, UK) CO: Beach_hut  

5. Geocoin Fest Manchester 2019 - Mega (Manchester, UK) CO: GeocoinfestEU19

6. Geocoinfest Science, Industry & Society - Lab caches (Manchester, UK) CO: GeocoinfestEU19

7. EPP Challenge All Round Cacher & Oh to be in Britain - Mystery/Challenge (Cambridgeshire, UK) CO: Ecopuffinparents

8. Snicklemaze -Traditional (York, UK) CO: Z3ROIN

9. The Chirp is not Enough - Mystery (Kingston, UK) CO: Gazooks

10. Little Bridges Puzzle Bridge #1441 - Traditional (Cambridge, UK) CO: Steve 4789

It was so difficult to agree on our top 10 that we felt it was only fair to also mention the 10 that just missed out...

11. #6 Lawshall Walk - Traditional (Lawshall, UK) CO: Susie&Maisie

12. Geocoinfest The Lost Geocoins - Wherigo (Manchester, UK) CO: GCF EU19 Crew

 13. Church Micro Felbrigg 3107 - Traditional (Felbrigg, Norfolk, UK) CO: SuffieldHunters 

14. Haunted Bury St Edmunds - lab caches (Bury St Edmunds, UK) CO: FolkFen 

15. Ireland’s Treasures - lab caches (Dublin Ireland) CO: Geocaching Ireland

16. Go Canada Go - Traditional (Playa Del Carmen, Mexico) CO: Groundhog & Shadow

17. Film Set 10 Harry Potter - Virtual (Yorkshire, UK) CO: Tree Hugger adopted by Mongoose39uk 

18. Bram Stokers Whitby Cache - Virtual (Whitby, Yorkshire) CO: rodz adopted by Daoloth


 19. 1-In the 800 Wood- Traditional (Coton, Cambridgeshire, UK) CO: FolkFen  

20. Flamborough Head - Earthcache (Yorkshire, UK) CO: The Magner Defender 



A big thank you to all of these COs for the huge amount of work and effort that went into creating and maintaining these caches. All of them helped make 2019 a really fun and memorable caching year for us. Thank you. 

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