Moira Madness Traditional Cache
The Bee Keeper: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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This cache is just a short walk from the Main Car Park at Moira Furnace within the National Forest, the cache has been placed just off one of the many paths that winds it’s way through the woods nearby. You are looking for a 1ltr plastic box containing the usual trinkets.
Location Information
Moira Furnace is a nineteenth-century blast furnace, which as been expertly preserved by English Heritage as a scheduled monument. The building itself houses touch screens, hands-on interactive displays showing how the furnace worked and the history of the buildings on the site
There are also craft workshops on the site, where craftsmen produce pottery, soap, and stoneware. The newly-opened section of the Ashby canal runs alongside the furnace, and visitors can take a furnace boat trip in the summer, traveling along the canal from Donisthorpe Park to the national forest visitor centre. The site has a woodland area, Little Smelters adventure playground an under 5’s area, which are accessible to people of all abilities.
For more information then please log onto www.lrmf.org.uk/m_05_moi.htm
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