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Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Cheshire Street, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Cheshire Street and the surrounding area.
- Astronomy & Satellites ...
- Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
- To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Cheshire Street:
- 41.539820, -72.867601
- Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
- Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Cheshire Street
- Bird Watching ...
- We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
- The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected New Haven County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for New Haven County
- Since Cheshire Street is near Hartford County and also Middlesex County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Hartford County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Middlesex County
- Waymarking ...
- Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
- Open the Waymark.com report for Cheshire Street
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cheshire Street ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
- Bishops Corner
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Deaconwood
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Deaconwood is located in New Haven County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deaconwood
- Marion
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Meadowbrook
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Meadowbrook is located in New Haven County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowbrook
- Mixville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Mixville is located in New Haven County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mixville
- Plantsville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Pondside
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Pondside is located in New Haven County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pondside
- Pratts Corner
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Pratts Corner is located in Hartford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pratts Corner
- Richards Corner
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Richards Corner is located in New Haven County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richards Corner
- Stillmans Corner
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Stillmans Corner is located in Hartford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stillmans Corner
How Far From Cheshire Street to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Cheshire Street to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic<2> community of Cheshire Street once stood, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Cheshire Street and extending to:
- Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies 18 miles [29 km]<3> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could walk a straight line from Cheshire Street to Hartford, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 285 miles [458.7 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,612 miles [9,031.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,319 miles [10,169.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,196 miles [6,752.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Cheshire Street, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cheshire Street) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day. |
| <5> | The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Cheshire Street to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cheshire Street. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.5398, Longitude: -72.8676 In this case, the coordinates for Cheshire Street have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.169 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.779 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.783 degrees. |
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