Silverstone Circuit No.3 - COPSE (Bucks/Northants
border)
This is 3/3 of a short series of caches that take you
around the world famous Silverstone Race Track, which straddles the
Bucks/Northants border. After the success of 'SpeedCaching' at my
HAMPDEN'S MONUMENT cache (the record is around 20 seconds from
car to logbook!) I thought it might be fun to do something similar,
but on a larger scale. Where better than a motorsport circuit? The
added bonus of this cache series is that you can watch the action
on the track for free!
I suggest you park around N52° 03.835 /
W001° 01.617 at the entrance to Hazelborough Forest off the
Dadford to Silverstone road. That way you'll visit this cache after
Silverstone Circuit No.1 - STOWE CORNER and
Silverstone Circuit No.2 - BECKETTS caches. Alternatively, if
you want to do this one in a hurry, there is parking at N52°
04.912 / W001° 00.896. Access to this location is via a bridge
over the A43 from Silverstone Village:
This Cache is located
at:
N52° 04.739 / W001°
00.500.
To get there, use the footpaths and
bridleways provided. They're not always very clear, so a copy of OS
Landranger Map 152 might be useful. It's not necessary to enter any
part of the Silverstone site to complete these caches, although
there are many points where this is possible. Motorsport is
dangerous; Don't make a Grand Prix of yourself, play safe! On a
less serious note, it's as well this corner is called just 'Copse',
as the wood behind it has the full name of 'Cheese Copse'. "Michael
Schumacher has spun at Cheese!" just doesn't have quite the same
ring, does it? :-)
It's not required to log this cache, but
if you can please include your Sector Time for this cache. That's
how long it took to get to it from your car, or from SC2 if doing
them in numerical order. Sector two would be how long it takes to
reach SC2 from SC3 and the third sector is from SC2 to SC1. If
doing them in number order, Sector 1 is from parking to SC1, sector
2 is from SC1 to SC2 and sector 3 is from SC2 to SC3. If you time
yourself on all three sections (a digital watch with a stopwatch
feature is ideal for this) please also log your overall 'lap' time.
I hope that makes sense!
Happy, and speedy hunting!
The cache originally
contained:
1x Blank 90 minute Tape.
1x Party Popper.
1x Kermit the Frog with a telescope.
2x Flyers for places of local interest.
1x Odeon Cinema preview CD-ROM.
Plus the usual: Cache notice, log book, pencil and pen.
Things to enjoy while
searching for this cache:
While you're in the area I suggest you try
the other two caches in this series, plus The Hornets The
Church in the Fields cache or
The Secret Garden by Dan and Pid. Both are within short
driving distance.
A small experiment -
Please feel free to rate your visit to this cache out of ten in
your log.