Clutton Series :: B&NSR Trackside Kings Ln. Bridge Traditional Cache

The cache is hidden in the railway cutting and not very accessible from the road.

note poor GPS signal here.

This is a small container suitable for the odd travel coin and travel bug. Cache no pen.

Part of the Clutton Series - Caches placed around the village I grew up in.

The Bristol and North Somerset Railway opened on September 3rd 1873 linking Bristol with Radstock where it joined the Radstock Mineral Railway to Frome, forming a 24 mile through route. The line was operated by the Great Western Railway.

The railway was built to Clutton in 1864. Sidings connected both Greyfield and Fry's Bottom Collierys to the station. Passenger services ceased in 1959 and the line closed in 1968.

Workers in the nearby farm fields

View of Kings Lane bridge from trackside, note dissused siding leading to Frys Bottom

Old Map