We were starting to struggle to find an interesting spot for
this part of the series ... and nearly had a nano on the "S-O-F+H"
bench around the corner (you'll know it when you see it), but Alex
had a much better idea and we hid this micro instead
This little guy is keeping his one googley eye on the completion of
the A64 / Hopgrove roundabout improvements which have cost the tax
payer 9 million big ones
but will hopefully reduce the
congestion that you'll know about if you try to get to the
coast on a sunny Saturday morning.
Some of our hard-earned has gone into extending the Little Foss
Beck culvert that passes under the A64, and into the construction
of a new small mammal tunnel that now runs next to it. The
provision of the mammal tunnel should allow an alternative to
crossing the busy A64 in times of spate when the culvert may be
seen as a less attractive crossing point.
Little Foss Beck is home to a variety of wildlife including
otters, water voles and white-clawed crayfish (all protected
species). Great crested newts, bats and badgers are also found
nearby. On a good day you may also see herds of wild wildebeast,
gnu and geocachers foraging for caches nearby
The new Hopgrove roundabout isn't the only change to road layouts
in recent history. If you look at google maps in satellite view
you'll see that before this section of the A64 was finished (in
1976) that Stockton lane used to pass just to the south of here. A
section of old Stockton Lane is now Stockton Lane cul-de-sac. If
you have to drive you could park opposite here on the grass verge
just before what was once the old Hopgrove Lane South (the other
end of this is over the A64 next to the 'S-O-F+H' bench). See
parking waypoint.
There is another clue in the cache that is required to find
the final cache in the SL series. Have fun
