Towards Cauldon Dale Traditional Cache
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Located on an unmade public footpath between farm land that can get overgrown and quite muddy in wet weather. If you carry on along the footpath you will enjoy the peace of a beautiful sheltered valley. Walking boots or wellies required. Park in the Manifold Track Pay and Display car park in Waterhouses and walk up towards Cauldon to the cache up Earlsway.
Waterhouses is the largest village on the south-western edge of the Peak, and the most substantial settlement in the Hamps Valley. The large limestone quarry complex at nearby Cauldon provides much of the local employment.
Waterhouses village centre is where the Leek to Ashbourne road, the A523, crosses the Hamps and the road to Cauldon turns off south. There are rows of cottages clustered around this junction and a pub, The Just above here is the old station, once the terminus of the Manifold and Hamps Light Railway. The remaining station buildings have been restored by the Peak Park and converted into an information and cycle hire centre. There is a substantial car park and public toilets here too so it is a good base from which to explore this interesting part of the Peak District.
Cauldon or Caldon, is a straggling village. Its parish contains 326 inhabitants, and 1570 acres of land, in a barren part of the Moorlands. Cauldon Lowe, a lofty hill in this parish, is valuable for its extensive quarries of excellent Limestone.
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