Like many Motorway services, Toddington has a 2 hour maximum
parking allowance. Please bear this in mind if you're using the
services for anything other than normal geocaching purposes ( like
eating etc )
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This cache is located on the Southbound side of the M1. However,
a footbridge links the North and South bound services so the cache
is easily accessed if you stop on the Northbound side.
To access the cache, there is a footpath exit from the services
behind the petrol station at N 51° 56.930 W 000° 30.066. The slope
out of the services over the ditch is the only difficult bit of
terrain and owing to the constriction of the path by large concrete
blocks, wheelchair access may be difficult if not impossible.
Pushchairs should be fine but may have to be lifted over the
concrete constriction. Be careful crossing the road from the petrol
station to the exit as it is the access to the lorry parking.
The distance from the car parking area to the cache is only
about 260 metres.
At the cache site, look South East and the large lump beyond the
railway line is the now disused Sundon Landfill site which at the
time of cache placement is being sealed with a membrane and clay.
This pretty much sums up the immediate area
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To the North of the cache site, clay pigeon shooting butts can be
seen. These are rarely used ( a condition of planning ) but if you
do hear gunshots, that is the likely source.
The cache can be accessed from public footpaths in the area.
Even though no paths appear to exist on the map, there are plenty
of tracks which serve the landfill sealing project, and the
leachate works. See what I mean about the area?
I'm not placing any rules on the Bug Hotel. I'm hoping that a
sensible approach will prevail to placing and retrieving TBs.
Thanks.