T junction? Traditional Cache
La Lunatica: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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Suzanne
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Good car parking, short walk but gates or styles to negotiate. Cache is not big enough to contain a pencil so please bring your own.
Butterwick pullover is just a short walk from the Freiston Shore Nature Reserve.
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Freiston's sandy shore on The Wash was developed as a sea bathing resort. By the mid-nineteenth century, there were horse races on the beach and other attractions. However, the process of coastal accretion proceeded and salt marsh developed, leaving the few hotels without customers. Since the mid twentieth century, more marsh has been enclosed behind sea banks for use as arable land.
During the Second World War defences were constructed around Freiston Shore as a part of British anti-invasion preparations of World War II. A number of pillboxes, gun emplacements and coastal lights were constructed.
Following World War II, land reclamation led to the village being inland by about 1/2 mile. You can still still see the original sea bank with its pillboxes and some of the Freiston shore light railway. A direct path from the village to the marsh on The Wash still exists.
In 2000 the process was reversed a little when part of the sea bank was breached and the land behind opened to the tides. This was part of a relatively new policy of managed realignment, which saw the making of three deliberate breaches of the old sea bank. This took the pressure off the remaining sea defences, with the aim of prolonging their life, while the 66 hectares of tidal saltmarsh which is re-establishing itself helps soak up wave energy, acting as a further sea defence.
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