Perry Bridges; Platt Bridge Traditional Cache
Perry Bridges; Platt Bridge
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You are looking for a nano cache with a difference at Platt bridge on the River Perry at Ruyton XI Towns.
!!!!!TWEEZERS!!!!! could be useful here to extract the log from its container. The cache is very small and so is the log, I'm not sure how the log will stand up to use, so please minimise your entry, and let me know if the log is showing signs of disintegrating. (You will understand when you find it)
The River Perry is a tributary of the River Severn, which rises around Hengoed in Northwest Shropshire and enters the Severn about 2km downstream of Montford Bridge, also in Shropshire.
Perry Bridges is a series of caches on most public rights of way across the Perry to Rednal Mill Bridge which is just below GCTJMD "Perry Trifle."
This cache has been positioned with surveying specification RTK GPS, which has an accuracy of a few centimetres. It will give a good indication of how accurate your hand held GPS really is!
A number of cachers have been searching on the wrong side of the road for this one, I suspect that there is an error in the OSNG to WGS84 conversion used on the Geocaching Site. We survey using OSNG and convert to WGS84 using the OSGB conversion, which agrees with the Trimble one used by our GPS system.
Correct WGS84 co-ords: N52 47.67115, W2 53.20202
OSNG 340306.945 322250.845
Platt Bridge is on the busy B4397, a popular route into Shrewsbury from the Northwest. Care is needed, although the cache is not accessed from the road.
The bridge was opened in the late 1700s and was authorised by Thomas Telford, then County Surveyor for Shropshire.
Do not be tempted to park in the big layby/passing place on the road parallel to, and east of, the river, it is in constant use by lorries visiting a nearby factory.
You can walk to Ruyton Mill Bridge (GC23GNH) from here, it's about 1/2 a mile, and parking and turning is difficult there. See notes on the Ruyton Mill Footbridge listing.
The cache could be included in a circular walk taking in Ruyton Mill Bridge, Ruyton Playground and School Road Bridge
Roll of Honour
FTF Shropshire Seekers
STF Bolas Heathens
TTF Border Caz
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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