A hiking-based treasure hunt: participants follow written clues to a hidden, weatherproof box holding a logbook and a carved rubber stamp, leaving their own stamp's impression in the box's logbook and stamping the box's own mark into a personal logbook as proof of the find. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Established When (Circa)The practice began on Dartmoor, Devon, England in 1854, when the guide James Perrott placed a bottle for visiting cards at Cranmere Pool on the northern moor. It stayed a local Dartmoor practice of no more than a dozen sites for over a century, with a memorial letterbox placed at Duck's Pool in 1938, before spreading more widely from the 1970s onward. 1 Connections
Associated With
Letterboxing predates and directly inspired geocaching, and the two hobbies share overlapping communities and, often, overlapping hidden containers.
Sources
1. Letterboxing (Wikipedia)
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The origin of letterboxing can be traced to Dartmoor, Devon, England in 1854.
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