Two Tubs Multi-Cache
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Multi Cache, travel to the location given above and use the clues below to get the actual cache location.
There has been coal mining documented in this area since 1291 but the hay day of the New Hartley pits was from 1754 until the 1862 pit disaster. The New Hartley Colliery was finally closed in 1959. There are a few landmarks remaining, the waste heaps (now covered in managed trees), the pit managers house and offices (now a furniture shop) a School & Church that were used by the mining families at the top of Double Row (Double Row so called because there were double lines of rail tracks for the coal tubs) and a few miners houses in New Hartley. The only other evidence is the hundreds of clay pipes shards discarded by the miners that used to smoke with them; these can be found all around the area after the fields are ploughed.
On the 16th January 1862, 204 lives were lost in the New Hartley pit disaster within the Hester shaft. A 21 tonne cast iron engine beam broke, fell down the shaft and blocked the only way into and out of the mine, entombing the miners.
Tub one is the starting point for this multi-cache. The walk to the cache is about half a mile from the starting point co-ordinates above. There is plenty of parking but please don’t park in the cul-de-sac as it s a private road.
To get the co-ordinates for the final cache location, look at the plaque on the starting Tub and use the numbers of letters in the words to give you the co-ordinates:
N 55. 05. (Line one, word one),(Line five, word three) 5
W 001. 31. (Line one, word nine),(Line three, word two) 2
Additional Hints
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