Grand Union Canal Cache - Turnover Bridge Traditional Cache
Dyffryn: Dyffryn can no longer maintain this cache as he passed away earlier this year. If someone can take the container away that would be great.
Grand Union Canal Cache - Turnover Bridge
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This is one of a series of caches on the canal system around Birmingham. The Birmingham and Warwick canal towpath is part of the Grand Union Canal Walk, a long distance recreational route starting at Gas Street basin in the city centre. The cache is hidden just off the towpath close to Turnover Bridge, so called because the towpath changes from the east to the west side here.
The cache which is a small tub 6cm dia and 9cm high in a cammo bag, contains the log book and a pencil and there is room for some small swaps or TBs.This length of the Grand Union canal from Digbeth to Warwick was authorised in 1793 and the canal opened in 1799 as the Warwick & Birmingham Canal making the link through to London with the Grand Junction canal. The canal prospered for the next 100 years but as the railway system developed, that became the carrier of choice and the canals began to loose trade. In 1929 the Grand Union Canal Company bought the canals between Regents dock in wapping and Birmingham under one ownership and in the ensuing years the canal was widened to a 12' 6" standard. Following the first world war, the canals steadily declined as carriers of goods and are now principally recreational waterways.
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