Fairbrook Naze - (6) - Babbling Brook Traditional Geocache
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Fairbrook Naze - (6) - Babbling Brook
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The path is generally of increasing difficulty with steeper rocky sections. At times the path is narrow. However the route is rewarding; its lower section has a variety of views of the brook and incoming Nether, Middle and Upper Seal Cloughs, followed by a widening panorama. A steep section soon comes, c 500m horizontally, c 100m vertically and onto the plateau at a height of 2000 feet. Then it's a 750m NNE stroll to Fairbrook Naze.
All caches are within a few metres of the path.
This series of caches start from the “Snake Road”, A57, near the Snake Inn.
Just across the road from the pub is a stile, the start of the walk up Fairbrook. Beware of fast moving traffic, the road is very busy and there is not much warning because of the bends.
(Why no Fairbrook Naze-(1)-Inn Stile? I hear you ask.
It does exist in theory and in placement but the Forestry Commission want a £50 (FIFTY POUNDS) fee for permission to publish it. As we are not that keen, anyway, to place caches under trees, that is it for the foreseeable future.)
If you take refreshments at the inn, the Snake Inn car park is at N 53 24.694 W 001 49.908.
There are a few small laybys a short distance towards Sheffield from the Inn. One, for about 4 cars, is at N 53 24.589 W 001 49.774.
The Duke of Devonshire was one of the two chief promoters of the bill to build a road from Sheffield to Glossop over the High Peak. This became an act of parliament in 1918. The road, the last of the great Turnpikes built at the beginning of the 19th century, was completed and opened to traffic in August 1821. A toll bar was in operation at the Snake Inn until around 1870 or thereabouts.
A coach and Four Passenger Service was introduced, but the complete journey was too much for one team of horses so a Staging Post and Inn were built exactly halfway between the Ashop Hotel (now submerged by the Ladybower Reservoir) and Glossop. The date 1821 was incorporated into the Inn sign, being that of a snake, the crest of the old Cavendish family, the Duke of Devonshire.
This cache, a small box with a clip top, 12cmx9cmx8cm, is the sixth of a series of caches up onto the Kinder plateau and finishing at Fairbrook Naze, in the neighbourhood of which is 'On the top of t'Kinder - The Big Cup' , a cache by 'davester'.
Additional Hints
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