England's First!

England's First!

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Category
Tributes
Rarity
Common
Published
28 August 2026
Extension
Reviewer
Forge
Craftable
Collected by
34 player(s)

On geocaching.com

Cache type
Traditional Cache
GC code
GC4E
Country
United Kingdom
Owner
Steve
Published
6 June 2000

The England's First! geocache (GC4E) was placed on 6 June 2000 at Berrylands, southwest of London. The game was one month old.

Every cache in the world then fitted on a web page cobbled together by Mike Teague, the first person to have found Ulmer's. On 21 June 2000 it listed forty of them, across four continents, of which a single one in the United Kingdom: this one, summed up in one line - coordinates, a date, an owner, and this caveat: "uncertain coords". Ireland had beaten England by three days with Europe's First (GC43), at Bray Head; Scotland had to wait until December.

Nobody ever recorded a find on GC4E: the box disappeared very early on. For its tenth anniversary, on 6 June 2010, geocachers gathered on the spot all the same, the programme being to form a circle around ground zero and dance around it; that same year, a commemorative plaque was installed at the original location together with Thames Water and Kingston upon Thames council. Since 2023, a virtual cache makes it possible to log the place with a photo.

Fancy a warm-up for the real quiz? Here is a question:

Since 2023, which cache type marks the spot of this cache?

The answer : virtual