Footpath Fumble: Tree Treasure Traditional Cache
Footpath Fumble: Tree Treasure
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On the Cole Green Way: former railway line popular with walkers, cyclists and horse-riders, young and old. Pleasant, tree-lined route.
The Hertford and Welwyn Junction Railway opened in 1858, linking Hertford with the London-York railway line. There were two intermediate stations between Welwyn Junction and Hertford: at Cole Green and at Hertingfordbury. The site of the Cole Green Station is still identifiable: the station house appears not to have survived, but there is a small picnic area on the site of the old sidings and the inn built to serve passengers using the station is still in business as 'the Cowper Arms' (just off the Cole Green Way, where it is crossed by the road to Cole Green). The site of the Hertingfordbury Station is less obvious, but that station house actually does survive (as a private house, about 500 feet east of where the road to Hertingfordbury crosses the Cole Green Way). At the eastern-most end of the Cole Green Way is the viaduct which carries the 'Hertford Loop' railway line which, offering a more direct route to London, took passengers from the Hertford and Welwyn Junction Railway, which would subsequently close to passenger traffic in 1951 and finally to freight traffic in 1981.
Lock & lock box starting off with 'Wandering Witch' trackable
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Abg dhvgr benatr.