The Grass Road Traditional Cache
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The 'grass road' was an accommodation lane for the medieval tenants of Aldcliffe to access their strips of allocated land. Later it became a cattle trod for one of the village's farms (now defunct) and is still occasionally used to move livestock between the fields.
The lane is now part of a footpath from Aldcliffe to the River Lune that is accessed through a small iron gate off Aldcliffe Hall Lane (in some maps shown as Railway Crossing Lane). The lane wends its way between the hedgerows before it suddenly ends, with the footpath to the river continuing through open fields. This probably marks how far the farmland extended
before the river embankment was built 200 years ago.
The cache is hidden halfway along the grass road. From along this stretch of the path you have a good view of the new housing estate that replaced Aldcliffe Hall in the 1970's. You will see a magnificent Cedar as one of the few reminders of Aldcliffe's past. There was a Hall at the top end of the new estate from 1817-1960. An earlier Hall, first mentioned in 1094, stood a little closer to the river. In the days of the Civil War, this older Hall was owned by the Dalton family and known as "Hall of the Catholic Virgins", in reference to the eight sisters Dalton. The Dalton family were later implicated in the Jacobite Rebellion and lost the Hall after an inquiry found it "given to Popish and superstitious uses".
Good starting points for a walk to the cache are from a small lay-by at the Canal, walking up Aldcliffe Hall Drive and then through a little metal gate, or from the bottom end of Aldcliffe Hall Lane at the embankment.
The cache itself is a pretty small L&L, and hidden well above path level.
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(Decrypt)
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