WARNING Heed the red warning flags by day
and red lights at night for the ranges. If the web site
publishes a Non Firing day but on your arrival there are
flags or lights displayed, NO NOT pass the range marker
poles.
DO NOT touch any suspicious looking objects you find on the moor.
Live and blank ammunition and ordnance is used by the military on
the ranges. If you encounter any suspicious objects; mark the area,
note the location and inform the Training Area Commandant on 01837
650010, or the local police on 08705 777444.
Edward James Hughes was born in 1930 in West Yorkshire and was
raised on farms until he was six years old. He attributed his love
of the natural world to these early years and it would prove to
later show through in his poetry. He was an acclaimed children's
writer and poet and critics routinely rank him as one of the best
poets of his generation.
He led a very tragic life, losing his first wife and six years
later his lover and child to suicide and then being publicly blamed
for and accused of their murder.
Ted Hughes, as he was normally known, was British Poet Laureate
from 1984 until his death and shortly before he died in 1998 of a
heart attack while undergoing surgery for cancer, he received the
Order of Merit from Queen Elizabeth II.
There was some local controversy when his memorial stone was
laid on the moors. Several people felt he was "an outsider" and had
no right to a lasting memorial there, but he was a great friend of
Prince Charles and it's reputed that it was Prince Charles' private
helicopter which transported the granite slab to it's resting
place. Whatever your opinion on the memorial, it is in a superb
location, away from the modern world and as close to nature as you
are likely to get.
The cache is hidden away from the memorial stone but it is visible
across the other side of the river on top of a grass covered
tinners rubble pile.
When you reach the hiding place, there is an obvious boulder and
the cache is tucked back under at arms length. Please replace in
the same way so it is not found accidentally.