ODP Start/Finish Traditional Geocache
Team Marzipan: Just checked cache stolen again, fed up of it.
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This cache has been placed at the finish/start of the long distance footpath of Offa's Dyke [:)].
It is set by the side of the pavement, in an area that gets very busy with summer muggles so extra stealth is required.
Please replace cache as you found it, many thanks (TM) [;)]. No pen/pencil in the cache so please take one.
Ideally two cachers are needed, one to keep a look out while the other hunts. There is a car-park across the road, please check you're not being watched 
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Please do not attempt if there are to many holiday/muggles about, late evenings are the best time. Thank you very much.
The car-park is a pay-display so why not stay for a while, after you have found the cache and take a stroll along the sea front with the gentry.
The promenade is level and families cycle/jog/roller-blade and walk their dogs here. You could even bring your bucket and spade or kite and I was going to say bring your swim wear, but when you see the colour of the Irish sea you will see why I didn't!! But the Wind Farm looks close enough to swim to. There is a very nice leisure pool (the Nova) which the children would enjoy, it boasts the first ever indoor water flume in the country. There are great views of Prestatyn mountains and if you make it when the sun is going down, that would be an extra bonus.
Marzi's Memo - Take a pair of tweezers 
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Offa's Dyke Path.
The Path runs for 177 miles from Sedbury Cliffs on the Severn Estuary near Chepstow to the North Wales resort of Prestatyn on Liverpool Bay. For about 70 miles it follows the course of the Eighth Century Offa's Dyke earthwork
Offa's Dyke Path is one of twelve designated National Trails. It is the only national trail to follow a man-made feature. Built by Offa, King of Mercia in 757 to 796 AD the dyke formed the boundary between England & Wales, running 177 miles from Prestatyn in the north to Sedbury, near Chepstow in the south. Men from the border country along the Mercian (English) side all had to contribute: they could send food or they could build 128cm of dyke.
Offa's Dyke Path, while not being the longest of the National Trails, is the most attractive and varied of them. The route crosses high wild moorland, attractive, well cultivated wide river valleys and ancient woodland. It passes through historic towns and isolated hamlets. En route can be seen hill forts, castles, abbeys and surviving remains of the habitations of former occupants of the beautiful corridor of the path. The flora and fauna are as rich and as varied as the scenery. At the halfway point in Knighton is the Offa's Dyke Centre with its Interactive Exhibition for the Dyke and a range of services for walkers.
There are a variety of beautiful landscapes including the limestone cliffs of the lower Wye valley, rolling farmlands, the Black Mountains, Shropshire Hills, Clywdian Hills and moorlands.
Although the Trail is not as challenging as more mountainous routes, there are some remote sections with rough and boggy paths, and many descents and climbs, especially on the 24km/15-mile "switchback" section between Knighton and Brompton Crossroads. Much of the land is used for grazing livestock and there are many stiles.
The route appeared on the initial list of suggestions for national trails in 1949, and was finally opened in 1971, thanks mainly to the efforts of volunteers from the Offa's Dyke Association
More information contact - odo@offasdyke,demon.co.uk
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Congratulations to G6JLC (John and Lou) who were first to find this geocache on the 21/6/07.
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