Stanley's Wander #1 - The Crumpax Shortcut Traditional Cache
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Stanley's Wander #1 - The Crumpax Shortcut
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Container replaced with a 35mm film canister which we have left 'hanging around' the old railings (09.10.11) and with new log, please put it back well hidden!!!
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Stanley’s Wander
Stanley’s wander is named after a route we use to take our dog ‘Stanley’ for a walk, it is a circular walk about roughly 3 miles which isn’t particularly challenging and can be done with buggy’s/pushchairs or on bicycle’s. The walk is 50% road paths and 50% public footpaths which takes in some good views, the path from the farm to the playing fields used to be the train line from the nearby disused quarry to Preston. The cache’s are set out as individual caches as some can be done as a ‘cache and dash’ but if you undertake the full walk and find all 4 they will have the missing co-ordinates to cache 5 which is a good size 900ml clip top box with the usual goodies and ample room for trackables.
The bonus cache co-ordinates stated are for recommended parking at Longridge Civic Hall, it is usually easy to park here but may be busy on Thursday’s (Market day) and on some Sunday mornings (car boot sale) but there is ample roadside parking if that’s the case.
Walk directions...
Turn left out of the Civic Hall car park and follow the road around the bends past Poplar Drive on your left, just after on your left you will see a public footpath down the side of a small substation, follow this path all the way down (it crosses a road half way) until you reach Crumpax Meadows/Avenue, continue to the end of the road and turn right onto Inglewhite Road. Follow the road past Sainsbury’s and keep right towards Chipping at the Alston Arms, follow this road right down and round the tight bends (not a busy road but traffic can be going quite fast so take care), you will eventually come across another large substation type building just after a house on your right, turn right up the farm road (Lord’s Lane locally known as Mile Lane), follow this right to the top where you will come up to the farm, KEEP RIGHT at the farm buildings through the yard (it is a footpath) and then right onto the path between the trees, this eventually comes out at John Smith’s Playing Fields (known locally as ‘the top park’), keep going straight on until the end of the park and turn left up to the road, turn right at the top of the lane onto Chaigley Road and right again at the end, down the hill and left onto Willows Park Lane, you are then back where you started.
If you have kids with you, when you get to John Smith’s Playing Fields at the end of the path turn left and left again up the hill and there is a small play area at the top.
WELL DONE TO DAVEINLANCS FOR BEING THE FTF FOR THIS CACHE AND THE FULL SERIES!!
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