Caldon Cache - Froghall Wharf Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 4/15/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:


A quick cache at a lovely location.

Joint FTF - keebee and gushoneybun

Froghall Wharf is now a quiet, secluded area, colonised by trees, shrubs and wildflowers; but it was not always like this.

In the mid-nineteenth century the wharf was a hive of industrial activity. Wagons full of limestone trundled down the four miles of inclines, cuttings and embankments to the wharf from the Cauldon Low quarries higher up in the hills. Empty barges arrived along the canal from the Potteries to be loaded with limestone for both industrial and constructional use. Limestone was also loaded into railway wagons in the sidings in front of the lime kilns and a steam engine would then haul the loaded wagons across the Foxt Road for shipment through the national rail network.

Close by were brick kilns using local clay probably also transported along the tramways, whilst slightly further afield miners worked shallow coalmines and an extensive deposit of high-grade iron ore.

Facilities near the cache include toilets, a visitors' centre and a small window-cafe.

This cache is one of a series of local caches:-
Froghall Wharf - GC1266W
Hotel Woodlouse - GC12VZH
Halfway there - GC15VP3
Gravity Plateway - GC12VZZ
Bananas Bridge - GC11MTB
and the multi cache which binds them together:-
TJ's Treasure Tub - GC12VWR


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Iregvpny Cvyyne bs Vil (Gbc bs fgrcf - 20 zrgerf Jrfg).

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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