Sunday Stroll #1 Stainton Cross Traditional Cache
Sunday Stroll #1 Stainton Cross
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First in a series of caches around Halfpenny.
This round of caches is good for kids with fords, tree swings easy gradients and lots to see and do with a moderate quantity of soft ground in damp weather and so good footware is required.
St Sunday seems a strange name as, other than this beck and the not so distant crag, nobody had ever heard of him! This confusion probably arose from a mistranslation a long time ago. The name Dominic is very nearly Latin for Sunday
St Sundays beck , destined to become the river Bela a little downstream, rises on the fells NE of New Hutton and at one time supported five water mills between Bleasehall and Stainton.
The path described can be started where ever you like but parking may be problematic. There is little width on many of the roads to afford anything other than the occasional passing place and possibly parking in the Pub car park at Barrows green or the lay by up before Summerlands might be the most public spirited spots.
There is a bus shelter opposite Stainton Cross and I guess the Kirby Lonsdale bus must pass, if not stop there but cannot vouch for it personally. The timetable is here:-
(visit link)
Here is described a clockwise route via 7 caches that starts from Stainton Cross on the A65. Obviously the directions will be tricky to follow anticlockwise so take your pick!
Sunday Stroll #1
Stainton Millennium Cross
This was carved by a Stainton man from a storm blown oak and tells something of the valleys history. There is a bench and picnic table a few yards away. The cache itself is a little way away, sheltered by an object 173 years older.
Carefully cross the A65 and head for the new bus shelter, taking the quiet road signed “Halfpenny” heading up the valley. The sign post that this has replaced used to say "Halfpenny ¼" which raised many a puzzled smile.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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