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History of Geocaching Mega events (UK and Ireland)

Below is a map of all past and planned UK and Ireland Mega events along with a list of all past Mega events.


Map of UK Mega Events
Source: The Annual UK Mega Event Stakeholders Facebook page

Annual UK Mega Event

UK Mega Event profile has a good summary of each of the annual UK Mega events, it is available here.

Year Event Town Region GC Code Attendance Accounts
2008 The UK's First Mega Event Harrogate Yorkshire GC17W59 505 (928) 2008 Accounts
2009 The UK's Second Mega Event Weston-Super-Mare South West England GC1GFT9 545 (1044) 2009 Accounts
2010 Mega Scotland: The UK's
3rd Mega event
Perth Northern Scotland GC1XDQ0 567 (1301) 2010 Accounts
2011 Mega Wales 2011: The UK’s
4th Mega event
Swansea South Wales GC2921G 775 (1362) 2011 Accounts
2012 North West England 2012 Cartmel Northwest England GC2X1TM 719 (1559) 2012 Accounts
2013 UK Mega 2013 –
West Midlands Region
Gaydon West Midlands GC3V2NV 856 (1532) 2013 Accounts
2014 UK Mega Event 2014 –
Ayrshire & Arran
Ayr Southern Scotland GC4HBG4 563 Not received
2015 UK Mega Essex 2015 -
The 8th Annual UK Mega
Billericay Eastern England GC53P8F 920 (2351) Not received
2016 North Wales 2016
UK Mega Event
Llangollen North Wales GC5TQ6Q 1421 (1532) 2016 Accounts
2017 Devon UK Mega 2017 East Budleigh South West England GC6JZNY 1009 (1811) 2017 Accounts
2018 10th Anniversary UK Mega Event - Yorkshire 2018 Nr Ripon Yorkshire GC7ABCC 1178 (1900)
280 pitches
Not received
2019 Aberdeenshire UK Mega 2019 Banchory Northern Scotland GC7WEP4 797 (1467) Not received
2020 UK Mega 2020 - Sussex Haywards Heath South East England GC800TQ (Cancelled) Not received
2021 UK Mega 2021 - Lincolnshire Lincoln East Midlands GC928T3 705 2021 Accounts
2022 West Midlands UK Mega 2022 Uttoxeter West Midlands GC9D1HX 781 (1100) 2022 Accounts
2023 Milton Keynes UK Mega 2023 Milton Keynes Southern England GC9V5J3 771 Not received

Piratemania

Year Event Town Region GC Code Attendance
2011 Piratemania IV Ashbourne West Midlands GC2NYZG 261
2012 Piratemania V Ashbourne West Midlands GC365FT 427 (878)
2013 Piratemania 2013 Stratford-upon-Avon West Midlands GC456DA 334
2014 Piratemania 7 (2014) Cartmel Northwest England GC4NCX1 278
2015 Piratemania 8 Bakewell East Midlands GC5B3WH 439
2016 Piratemania 9 Shrewsbury West Midlands GC68Q7V 379 (764)
174 pitches
2017 Piratemania 10 Cheddar South West England GC6TRBT 509 (800+)
175 pitches
2018 Piratemania 11 Dalby Forest Yorkshire GC7FWD6 396
2019 Piratemania 12 Cartmel Northwest England GC7Z9YH 328 (916)
170 pitches
2020 Piratemania 13 - Bermuda Triangle Reading Southern England (Cancelled)
2021 Piratemania 13 - Bermuda Triangle Swinethrope East Midlands GC8GC64 305
2022 Piratemania 14 - Pirates Pudding & Tarrrt's Bakewell East Midlands GC9M3MT 337
2023 Piratemania 15 - Pirates Royalists & Roundheads Naseby East Midlands GCA2BBR 409

London Calling

Year Event Town Region GC Code Attendance
2021 London Calling 2021 Westminster London GC8JAYF 561 (700)
2023 London Calling 2023 Marylebone London GC9MAXX 807 (TBA)

Geolympix

Year Event Town Region GC Code Attendance
2012 Geolympix Mega: Oxford 2012 Oxford Southern England GC22T2T 619 (955)
2016 Geolympix: ASHRIDGE 2016 Ashridge Eastern England GC5XXYY 580 (906)
2018 Winter Geolympix: ASHRIDGE 2018 Ashridge Eastern England GC75FTF 675 (930)
2020 Geolympix: IV: STOWE 2020 Stowe Gardens Eastern England GC8C8C9 (Cancelled)

GeocoinFest Europe

Year Event Town Region GC Code Attendance
2019 GeocoinFest Europe 2019 Manchester Northwest England GC7TTNT 593

Kent Mega

Year Event Town Region GC Code Attendance
2014 Kent Mega 2014 The Hop Farm South East England GC4PKB2 666
2015 Kent Mega 2015 The Hop Farm South East England GC53QJ1 565
2017 Kent Mega 2017 The Hop Farm South East England GC6JGZC 635 (1003)

Halloween Mega (HH&CC)

Year Event Town Region GC Code Attendance
2012 HH&CC 2012 MEGA Event –
Reincarnated
Stanwick Lakes East Midlands GC32G7P 332
2013 The Halloween MEGA 2013 Salcey Forest East Midlands GC4AJ32 527
2014 The Halloween Mega 2014 Wakerley Great Wood Eastern England GC4YCAV 689