Pinky's Pursuit Multi-Cache
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Lindinis
Volunteer UK Reviewer - Groundspeak
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Pinky's Pursuit is a medium walk in the outskirts of a built up area of Basingstoke. (The north wooded area of Popley called Basing Woods).
To find the main cache, puzzles have been hidden in 3 small cache's, these puzzles(CODE BREAKERS - just like the Encrypt key) give you the co-ordinates to the next cache (four cache's in total) SO BRING YOUR READING GLASS ALONG! (LOL). On route you will need to visit three cache's in turn to find the final cache (the fourth cache).
The first cache (P1 - PPMC1) is the co-ordinates given.
Parts of this walk can get muddy when wet, however some of the route can be walked via other tracks which are more solid under foot.
I hope you enjoy this wonderful area and views from this scenic path; deer are often seen. I saw 3 when placing this cache.
Since 2010 a lot of work has gone on in the area, some paths which were mud are now laid with stone, there is a new walking area where one of my multi-caches is laid hence the down time it is still being work on with wooden stepping logs, so take care.
there is two new ares for children a area of large rocks and tunnels, and a wooden house and climbing bars, so enjoy!
A BRIEF HISTORY OF POPLEY.
Popley Fields
If you look on an Ordinance Survey map, the only reference to Popley is Popley Fields. The word Popley has an interesting derivation for the "pop" an old English word meaning pebble, being a shortened word of "popel". Ley means pastureland. Popley Fields was separated from the Oakridge area by the lane, which exists in part, going from the back of St. Bede's School to the Sherborne Road. The lane started from the crossroads from the Reading Road and part also exists to the south of Chineham Park School.
Along that lane in the proximity of the south part of Shakespeare Road was a chalk dell.
A little further along, some 300 yards off the road was a mushroom farm, this was taken over by the military during the Second World War to become a depot of the Royal Hampshire Regiment. Pershore Road has been built on the site, which after the war became a buffer depot where goods were stored for use in the event of an atomic catastrophe.
Carpenters Down (Basing Woods).
Where the woods are behind the scout buildings off Carpenters Down Road was a rifle range. The range was there long before the Second World War.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Zhygv-pnpur
cbvag 1 - Ng gur onfr bs n snyyra gerr.
cbvag 2 - Va gur ebbgf bs n zhygv gehax gerr.
cbvag 3 - Onfr bs n ybar zhygv-gehax gerr.
Pnpur - Gjva gerr gehax.
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