Peak Forest Canal - No Place to Hyde Multi-Cache
Peak Forest Canal - No Place to Hyde
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A reasonably easy, and short, offset multi on the Peak Forest Canal in Hyde.
I thought it was about time I launched a few caches of my own, and as caches on the Peak Forest Canal are somewhat sporadic, my first few will hopefully fill some of the gaps.
The canal was authorised by a 1794 Act of Parliament to run from Dukinfield near Ashton-under-Lyne to Chapel Milton, a few miles east of Bugsworth. The Upper Level from Marple to Bugsworth was completed in 1796; the Lower Level from Dukinfield to Marple Aqueduct by 1800. The aqueduct and Marple’s 16 locks took another five years, so linking the two levels.
This is a straightforward offset multi that should take little more than 30 minutes.
Bridge 5, formerly Throstle Bank Bridge, is now a 65-metre tunnel under the M67 motorway, so the co-ordinates are for Bridge 6, adjacent to the Manchester Road in Hyde. There is parking on side streets, or at Aldi if you’re shopping there.
You need to look for a couple of plaques on or immediately adjacent to the bridge, plus the date-stone on a nearby mill, and a little further on, the number on the motorway bridge. Basically just collecting numbers.
The first plaque, just off the bridge commemorates a sad event in 1889. You want the day (A), month (B), and approximate hour (C) of the explosion, plus the number of people injured, rather than killed, (D) and the day (E) of the plaque unveiling. But you may want to note the rest of the text for later. Now take the towpath northward.
From the second plaque – it may go over your head, just – you only need the month of re-opening (F).
The date-stone on the mill shows a single year (G).
Head further north, to and through the M67 tunnel. At the northern portal, as well as the blue-plaque British Waterways number for the bridge (5), there is another number more simply painted above the bridge hole “67 H.J”.
That’s all you need. The co-ordinates for the final cache are:
N 53 (A + C) . H (D + B) J
W 002 (F - B) . (G/4 - A - E + B)
FTF honours to Vigilance
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Neoberny pbagnvazrag; ohg ng jung Yriry ?