Brindley’s Bends – Hopsford Traditional Cache
Slow_Gin: No longer getting sufficient visits to warrant maintaining.
Brindley’s Bends – Hopsford
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A small screw top container with a few goodies for swapping.
The Oxford Canal, designed by James Brindley and built during the period 1774 to 1790, was one of the earliest canals in England. Built as a contour canal, it slavishly followed a level line and followed a tortuous route from Coventry to Oxford. In the 1830’s, taking advantage of developments in civil engineering, its line was shortened by some 20 miles, and reduce the time it took for boats to travel from the collieries of the Midlands to London.
This series of caches are placed along parts of the now defunct original Oxford Canal line.
After leaving the village of Ansty, the canal looped south around the site of the current golf course before striking north towards the site of the former medieval village of Hopsford. The course is still visible behind Hopsford Hall, and some parts are still in water. After a further half mile, the course then turned back on itself to head towards Nettle Hill.
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