Moving/Travelling Boxes

Hi All

Any idea how many moving boxes there are up on our sacred moor?

Stv

Hi Steve, I don't think all moving boxes are listed but in the catalogue there are around 300 moving boxes listed, weather or not all are still in existance remains to be seen as there isn't a way of keeping track of them without finders emailing the owners from time to time.

Dizzy

Hi

Thanx Dizzy for the info. Have you come across many travelling boxes as we have only seen 3 or 4 in 20 years. They made very interesting reading seeing where they have travelled across the moor.

Stv

Me thinks you meant moving boxes - I have three or four travellers on me whan I travel around - but I have not seen many moving boxes perhaps about 10 or so - I sent one out myself many years ago - I wandered lonely as a Cloud - Never seen it since - though it would be nice to see it again.

I don't know if it is one of yours Nik, but I found 'Nik's moving box No4' on Brent Moor near the Avon Dam in late 2007.

suzley wrote:Hi

Thanx Dizzy for the info. Have you come across many travelling boxes as we have only seen 3 or 4 in 20 years. They made very interesting reading seeing where they have travelled across the moor.

Stv

I havn't personally, to be honest with you over the 15 years or so that I've been letterboxing I've only come across maybe three moving boxes so far. I suppose we can all sometime find a moving box but may not know what it is. Sadly some may not be obvious i.e by the stamp design and info in the book (if still there).

Dizzy

I found one early on but as Dizzy mentions didn't realise what it was at the time. I also found one last summer but as I wasn't totally positive, left it in the same box, just in case.

I found an obvious tarveller quite recently - it was in a hybrid geocache, with instructions to move it to another geocache somewhere on Dartmoor, which I did.

I rehoused a smashing traveller recently; it had started in America, been all over before going on to Canada, and then over here for the Moor! Much travelled traveler! I hope it makes it home sometime.

Duckpool

I've got an American cuckoo (aka hitchhiker or moving box) that was sent for me to put on the moor. haven't had a chance yet (living 400 odd miles away doesn't help) and I'm wary of where to place it given the box thief. If anyone wants to place it in a safe spot, then pm me your address and I'll post it down.

Plenty of cuckoos in North Yorkshire, including a cuckoo nest where lots of the cuckoo stamps can be found and then moved on.