Grykey Charlie Traditional Cache
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20-30 mins walking time brings you to the cache. You can follow a path from either parking place or head across the limestone pavement to the cache. The cache site and most of Farleton Knott is Open Access land.
Do take care as you walk across the limestone pavement, particularly if the rock is wet when the limestone can be very slippy
The limestone pavement on Farleton Knott looks from a distance like a barren and rocky lunar landscape. It is only as you walk across it that you discover the intricate patterns of its ‘clints and grykes’, and the hidden plants they contain.
Water erosion from retreating ice ages, and more recently Cumbrian rain, has dissolved the limestone rock to form a pattern of ‘clints’ (they’re the bits you step on) and ‘grykes’ (the gaps you need to avoid falling down). This mosaic of rocky chunks with runnels in between is repeated across the entire sheet – or pavement – of limestone rock.
Take a look inside the grykes and you will find a thriving flora of lime loving flowers and ferns enjoying the shelter and avoiding the sheep! Some brave trees and bushes have poked their heads above the grykes and now appear to be growing out of bare rock.
From either of the parking places go through the gates, follow the path to the eastern side of the limestone pavement and head for the cache.
Do take care as you walk across the limestone pavement, particularly if the rock is wet when the limestone can be very slippy . Please disturb the rocks as little as possible and carefully replace any you move. Parts of this limestone pavement, like many around here, were smashed up for rock gardens well into the 1970s. Thankfullly they are now protected – please help preserve them.
Parking - on side of the unclassified road between Burton-in-Kendal and Hutton Roof, next to Access Land information panel.
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(Decrypt)
Svaq na nfu, unmry naq unjgubea, gura ybbx haqre n cvyr bs fgbarf
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