St Ninian's Well Traditional Cache
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Former 'Illy'coffee tin containing a log book and pen and the some other bits and bobs. Near an ancient spring supplying St Ninian’s Well. Easy walking, mainly on the level but paths muddy after rain. This cache has recently been renewed (because the original was cracked) and re-sited to avoid wading through very deep mud.
This cache is on a circular walk around the hamlet of Brisco following the River Petteril for some of the way. You CAN park at the car park/picnic area off J.42 heading towards Dalston on the Newbiggin Road [NY43563 51340, BUT after rain (and in Winter) the path may be very muddy and from THIS direction the cache itself can only be reached by wading through some very deep mud churned up by cattle and climbing over the stile beyond the cattle trough. A better route is to take the footpath from the Brisco Road signposted ‘Carleton Mill' next to 'Elvis Blvd'. St Ninian’s Well is about 250m along a path. Please replace the cache exactly as you find it AND MAKE SURE THE LID IS SCREWED ON!
I've also upgraded the terrain and difficulty to reflect accuracy a little more.
Sarah Losh, (1785-1853) a pioneer of the Arts and Crafts Movement, who was responsible for designing and building the unique Church at nearby Wreay, extended her care to this Well, erecting over it a semicircular arch, and a stone with an inscription now too eroded to be read.
St. Ninian is a shadowy figure in history. He is acknowledged as Scotland's first saint with the date 397AD celebrated as the beginning of his mission to his people. There is very little known about him as no written references to St Ninian from the period he was alive have been found and historians can only refer to works written many years after his death. He is often referred to as the apostle of the northern Britons and Picts.
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Haqre fgbarf arkg gb Jryy.