Holly Bush Box Traditional Cache
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The cache is in Barrack Lane, Crow. The location is a short walk from the road that leads from Crow to Burley Street or from the road that leads from Crow to Bransgore. Alternatively, you can pull off of Barrack Lane and park adjacent to the cache. The cache is on the boundary of Holly Bush Field, inside a box, similar to a bird box; concealed by vegetation. Overhanging trees make the location dark, so a torch is useful when ambient light is low.
This cache is a short distance from the Castleman Trailway, which one of Dorset's gentlest way-marked routes. The 16 mile route follows much of the old Dorchester to Southampton railway line, through some of East Dorset's lovely landscape.
The Castleman Trailway is open from Crossing # 14, down the hill along Barrack Lane, through to the Upton Country Park.
The Southampton and Dorchester Railway was opened in 1847.
It was conceived by a Wimborne solicitor, Charles Castleman and was planned to be part of major link from London to the South West but it was, in a sense, out-of-date before it began; another company, the London & South Western Railway (LSWR), had already established a line westwards from Salisbury to Exeter. This left the Southampton & Dorchester Railway more or less out on a limb with nowhere of major importance to go but, having already obtained parliamentary authority for the line, it was decided to go ahead all the same. However, money was tight. In order to keep construction costs to a minimum by using fewer bridges and cuttings whilst still linking the major population centres, the tracks were laid in a broad sweep well to the north of Christchurch and Bournemouth, but taking in Ringwood and Wimborne, before heading south to Wareham and on to Dorchester. It was because of this somewhat convoluted route that the line became known as 'Castleman's Corkscrew'. Bournemouth itself with a fledgeling population of less than 700 souls wasn't too high in Castleman's calculations, although a branch line led off to Hamworthy. Later a spur was laid to Poole. However, as with so many of these early ventures, the railway as a whole wasn't a success and just twelve months after opening the line was taken over by the rapidly growing LSWR. Meanwhile, another company, the Wiltshire, Somerset and Weymouth Railway, were planning another line running through Yeovil and on to the coast at Weymouth, via the county town of Dorchester.
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