GC14KDT The Salford Seven #5 - Pitchill (Traditional Cache) in West Midlands, United Kingdom created by bikermel76 & schnarff

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A cache by bikermel76 & schnarff Message this owner

Hidden : 7/27/2007

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Along roadside.

Please ensure Cache is closed fully - no need for it to be rusty inside!.

About The Salford Seven Caches

The Salford Seven Caches celebrate the parish of Salford Priors. The Parish comprises the villages of Salford Priors, Abbot’s Salford and Dunnington and the hamlets of Iron Cross, Pitchill, Rushford and the Bevingtons (Cock Bevington, Wood Bevington and Bevington Waste).

More information about the Salford Seven and walks in the parish can be found at Seven Walks Many of the nuggets of information on these pages are taken from Mr Bolstridge’s fabulous pamphlet.

One Cache is placed in each of the Seven, plus there is a Bonus Cache once all 7 main Caches have been completed. Each cache contains a special item for the FTF, with the Bonus Cache’s being best of all!

For those with limited time, or kiddie-Cachers in tow, each Cache can be completed as a ‘Cache & Dash’, with parking less than a mile from the Cache location in each case. Each Cache details the distance to the next, in case you wish to string two or three together!

For the more leisurely Cacher, the seven Caches have been connected into an 8 mile circular walk. The route can be found at CacheWalker. The walk passes close by all 3 public houses in the parish, allowing the Cacher ample opportunity for refreshment!

The Bonus Cache is approximately 1 mile from the suggested parking place (which you pass on the walk), adding a further 2 miles to the walk if completed en route.

To find the co-ordinates of the Bonus Cache (in the format N XX YY.ZZA W A BB.CDD, where each different letter indicates a different cache), those for the start of a useful footpath, and those for the suggested parking place, you will need to visit all 7 main Caches. Please check the inside cover of the logbook for the required information!

Please take great care at all times. Some areas may be very muddy or overgrown! The B4088 can also get very busy and do remember that this is an agricultural/ industrial area, even though it’s in the middle of the countryside, so please be aware of slow and heavy vehicles trundling down the lanes!!

About The Salford Seven #5 – Pitchill

Approx. distance to Cache #6: 0.5 miles

Pitchill is the smallest of the 7, and therefore is the location of the smallest cache! If you use the clue, the difficulty of this cache becomes 1.

Suggested parking is for very short periods in a lay-by (which is marked NO PARKING in two places…); please only park here for Cache-and-dashes, NOT to walk the long walk!!! Please park as far forward in the lay-by as possible to reduce inconvenience to locals.

The base of the Cache has a number on it. The instructions in Cache #3's logbook tell you where in the bonus Cache co-ords to insert this number!

Please bring your own pen/ pencil and just initial the log. Please retrieve Cache carefully, and be very, VERY careful not to lose anything from the cache!!!

Pitch Hill derives its name from the camp site where the Royalist army camped prior to its attack on the Earl of Leicester, Simon de Montfort at Evesham Abbey during the battle of Evesham in the 13th century

Pitchill may be tiny, but it does have its own website!
Pitchill

The hamlet also boasts one of two large retail enterprises in the parish, “Golls Garden Centre” (Hillers Farm shop, in Dunnington, is the other), which also incorporates an aquarium and aviary centre! A Nursing Home also forms part of this tiny hamlet, along with several other businesses which have offices near the cache location