Spaghetti Skyline 1 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/5/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Salford Park consists of a range of sports facilities and a fishing lake that can be circumnavigated on foot. The Park sits in the shadow of the M6 and A38 at what's known as "Spaghetti Junction". Once the biggest intersection in Europe.
You are looking for a silver screw top micro that only contains a log. Please bring a pencil.
Please replace as found.
A photograph of you by the lake would be good..

Salford is not a district but of the name of a location which now lies under Spaghetti Junction. There are a number of Salfords in England, some of which derive from 'salt ford'.

This would be a feasible interpretation of this name, as the ford across the Tame here lies on a route north from Droitwich, a centre of the salt trade from Roman times and probably earlier.

The earliest record of this Salford is written as 'Scraford' and derives the Old English scraef ford, 'cave ford' referring to a cliff at the foot of Copeley Hill. North of Spaghetti Junction caves in the sandstone were visible until the 1970s when they were destroyed by the M6 motorway construction. The caves here were recorded as the Dwerffehole, 'Dwarf hole' in 1461.

The ford here was an important crossing of the River Tame by the Lichfield Road, a route which linked Bristol and Worcester to Lichfield and the north-east of England from medieval times. It was known as 'one of the four great roads of England'. The crossing at the foot of Gravelly Hill must have been a firm one. A wooden bridge is recorded here from 1290, which was rebuilt with four stone arches in 1536 as a humped packhorse bridge like that which still crosses the River Tame at Water Orton.

Congrats to "One last look" for the FTF.. We salute you.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Lbh jvyy ernyyl unir gur penpx ybbxvat sbe guvf bar. Lbh pna ybt vg vs lbh svaq vg!

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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