DVMWHS: Wharf Wanders Traditional Cache

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Antheia: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.

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Hidden : 10/7/2010
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is just near to the car park at Cromford Canal with a view onto Cromford Wharf and the various canal buildings. Here you are in the heart of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, the cradle of the factory system. The cache is NOT in a dry stone wall. Muggles everywhere so be quick!

The cache is a plastic clip box container in a camouflage bag with log book, pencil and swaps. From here you can easily visit Sir Richard Arkwright’s Cromford Mills or walk along the canal side to High Peak Junction and then up the incline to Black Rocks or Middleton Top where bike hire is available linking to the High Peak Trail.

The Cromford Canal ran 23.3 kilometres from Cromford to the Erewash Canal at Langley Mill. The 10.5 kilometres of canal between Cromford and Ambergate which lie within the World Heritage Site was constructed in the early 1790s under the direction of William Jessop assisted by Benjamin Outram. The canal was intended as part of a through route to Manchester but it was not until the Cromford and High Peak Railway was constructed between 1824 and 1830 that this vision became a reality.

The Cromford Canal promoters sought to unlock Derbyshire’s immense mineral wealth, especially its limestone. Apart from the obvious advantages to Sir Richard Arkwright for his mills, he too saw the opportunity presented by exporting lime and sought a monopoly in this trade on the canal in return for which he was prepared to lend his name to the promoters of the canal project. Only when he was finally persuaded that such a monopoly would be against the law did he agree to give the canal scheme his energetic attention. He also agreed to sell most of his garden to the Canal Company to construct the Cromford Wharf. With his assistance the Canal Bill was steered through Parliament in the face of considerable opposition.

The canal had a profound influence on the economic growth of central Derbyshire achieving a substantial outreach by means of its many wharves and linking tramroads. Thus Belper, apparently bypassed by the canal, derived huge economic benefits from it.

The canal terminus abuts Mill Lane opposite Cromford Mill. Cromford Wharf incorporates two warehouses, an office or counting house and two cottages. Once enclosed entirely by a stone perimeter wall, the wharf was home to a range of other facilities; these buildings have not survived.

To find out more about the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site visit www.derwentvalleymills.org.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Oruvaq snyyra gerr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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