Folkes Lane Woodland #1

We are in Folkes Lane Woodland near Upminster. Folkes Lane Woodland is part of the Thames Chase Community Forest. An info leaflet from the Thames Chase web site covering this and adjacent bits of green can be found here.

The area provides hard surfaced / accessible path to many areas, however to collect all the caches in this set to get the bonus you will walk into the surrounding area as well as the Wood so this series can not be considered fully accessible throughout.

The area seems fairly quiet, I’ve only seen the odd dog walker when I’ve been here and frequently I’ve had the area entirely to myself.

The parking area is open as you would expect, the gates are locked around dusk, but the forest itself is open all hours.

Please note that that the only car access is via Folkes Lane from the eastbound A127, the turning is just before the M25 junction (the cranham.co.uk notice on the opposite carriageway is more or less opposite the turning).

Park at N 51 34.942 E 00 16.514 – check the closing time if you’re coming late.

A suggested path around the caches can be found in Google Earth or Google Maps format (just click the link of your choice).

The cache

Great views from here as well as a nice picnic spot. A small 0.45l clip lock type box is what you’re looking for.  

Original contents are on a party theme.

Whilst it should go without saying, I’ll say it: you do not (and should not) need to cross the fence to the embankment leading to the M25.

The cache stash note has a letter/number to collect, write this down as you will need this for the bonus cache.