Marbles Traditional Cache
Pippy P Poopypants: Area has become inaccessible due to excessive undergrowth
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A small plastic container big enough for geocoins, a couple of small TBs and other small items - such as marbles...
Gildersber Farm - built 1717.
"John Bramley of Gildersber had fifty six sheep, by far the largest flock in Addingham. The sheep kept on the moors were, according to agricultural writers later in the eighteenth century, 'poor miserable creatures of little value' "
"There was a flurry of excitement at the beginning of the century when a small seam of coal was found in the Millstone Grits of Gildersber. Fortunately for Wharfedale the coal seam was very small, as those are which occur in the grits. A small field, now built on and called Ridley's Fold, used to be called Coal Pit Close after an earlier discovery"
taken from "Addingham from Brigantes to Bypass", a history by Kate Mason.
With your back to the rocks, enjoying the views of Wharfedale ahead and Beamsley Beacon to the right.
I can see this spot from our kitchen window, one of the houses just below the fourth windmill on the right,
Go on - give me a wave, you never know, I may wave back !
The cache would make up part of an excellent afternoon's walk over Ilkley Moor. Suggest start at Ilkley station, then find these caches in order:
Swastika Stone
For Their Tomorrow
Afraid of Sunlight
Where's Ilkley
Marbles
then drop down into Addingham for a pint at one of the five superb pubs or tea and cakes at the Good Food Shop. Then its either a bus back to Ilkley, or continue towards Ilkley following the Wharfe river via the following caches:
Somewhere Else
Key to the Dales Way
Start of the Dales Way
Riverside Roam
Full circuit should take four hours or so depending on length of stops, less if you catch the bus. A lovely day out from Leeds without needing the car...
Additional Hints
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