This cache is one of a series around Loch Ken which provides
either a pleasant circular drive or cycle around the loch. You
might like to consider the
Loch Ken Circular (multi-cache) if you are
doing the series of six. This cache is one of the multi-cache
stages.
Parton is an attractive village with a fascinating history. The
houses were re-modelled in 1901 by Benjamin Rigby Murray to almost
the way you see them today. The former Parton Station at the north
end of the village is now a private house, the building with the
clock tower was once a byre and pig houses before being converted
into a communal laundry and latterly a holiday home.
Prominent mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell lived at
the nearby Glenlair House. He was famous for developing formulae
governing electricity and magnetism as well as the Maxwell
distribution in the kinetic theory of gases. Maxwell is buried
under the family gravestone in the churchyard of Parton Kirk and a
plate on the wall of the church commemorates him.
Link to the Red Kite Trail website for details about the Parton
Walk and Viewpoint
You are looking for a very small plastic box with a blue lid.
Please bring a pen or pencil to log your visit. It only has
sufficient room for a log book. Parking is available directly next
to GZ. Note - the cache is not in the drystone dyke!
FTF - Headie D