Major's Leap Traditional Cache
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A short walk from Much Wenlock to the cache on the Edge
Situated in an area of oustanding natural beauty, Wenlock Edge is a dramatic wooded limstone escarpment, which extends from the Ironbridge Gorge to Craven Arms. Eight miles of the Edge are in the care of the National Trust.
Major's leap is named after a local man and a Royalist supporter Major Smallman. During the English civil war Smallman was being chased by parliamentary soldiers and to avoid capture rode his horse onto, then over the Edge. The Major avoided his pursuer's his fall being broken by the vegetation, his horse was not as fortunate and was killed in the fall.
I would like to thank the National Trusts Shropshire Hills management team for allowing this cache to be placed.
Inside the cache the original contents are.
Walkers Britain, 50 walks
Birmingham & the heart of England book of 20 walks
Jack Mytton way walk
Two wooden cutlery sets
New art gallery Walsall coloured pencils
New art gallery Walsall & leather museum erasers
Sandwell valley & Bosworth Battlfield pencils
Logbook pen & pencil
1st to find Shropshire Seekers
2nd Shropshire Lasses
3rd Wigglesworth
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Svaq gur anzr ybbx yrsg, oruvaq na nfu.
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