This cache is close to the Liverpool to Manchester Railway, the oldest passenger railway in the world, which heads east from here across the great expanse of Chat Moss to the bright lights of Manchester. Chat Moss is a huge peat bog, over 10 square miles in area and up to 9 metres deep, which presented a significant challenge to the engineers constructing the railway because of the difficulty in providing a solid base for the track. George Stephenson was the engineer in charge of the project, and his initial idea was to dump enough spoil in the bog so that it would reach the bottom. This approach turned out to be impractical however, as the liquidity of the bog allowed the spoil to flow away from where the track was to be laid. The eventual solution he came up with was to build the line on a floating foundation of wood and stone, a hugely ambitious feat of engineering which was completed in 1829 and which has survived to the present day.
You'll be looking for a small copse of gnarled trees near the railway, near which the cache is hidden. Please note - on no account trespass onto the tracks or near the tracks. If your GPS unit says otherwise, don't believe it!
This geocache once formed part of the Edge o' t' Moss series, which has been discontinued. The remaining caches can still be incorporated into some pleasant wanders around Culcheth village.
Well done to Redferret on FTF.