Sebby's memory 3 - Is that a Squeak? Traditional Cache
szanfam4: Have had to archive as another container lost. Unfortunately this series has only one cache remaining... Area is a high muggle area and caches keep disappearing.
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Sebby's memory 3 - Is that a Squeak?
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hope you enjoy this next cache in the series. Ideally they should be done in order and should take no more than an hour start to finish. You will need a torch, pen and possibly wellies to complete this series- oh and a little climbing may be required :) Please dont wear your Sunday best!
If you enjoy this series, try 'Sebby's revenge' GC34P6W in Hadleigh for an experience you wont forget!!!
keep an eye on small children at all times.
magnetic film canister
Prittlebrook
In the mid 60's a survey of the Prittlebrook was made to identify its course; here is a section of the article for Essex Countryside Magazine and makes interesting reading some forty plus years on...
.......... the junior sections of the South Essex Natural History Society decided to trace the present course of the Prittlebrook from Thundersley and Hadleigh to the Roach near Stambridge
After passing under Rayleigh Road, the brook flows steadily eastwards through West Wood to Dawes Heath Road. The wood forms a beautiful setting, but it is not always easy to follow the river as parts are now conduited because of recent house building. After Dawes Heath Road the river gurgles alongside some gardens in a steep-sided meandering course. It borders agricultural land to the north, then passes through Dodd’s Grove, a copse of the local nature reserve, to Poors Lane. This is a really lovely, unspoilt part of the brook.
Still meandering and flowing eastwards the brook borders the north side of the major part of the nature reserve, receiving two tributaries from the southern watershed; but it turns south east and south as it approaches Agnes Avenue and the golf links. A prattling tributary from Highlands on the south west joins the brook just before Agnes Avenue Bridge, and here man has recently straightened and concreted the floor and sides of the brook. The result has been the formation of an artificial “ox-bow lake.” Probably the concreting has helped the brook flow better in times of flood water as it courses in an easterly direction to Eastwood Road. All along here the trees are really beautiful.
From Eastwood Road to Victoria Avenue, Prittlewell, the brook flows in an easterly course and is concreted most of the way. There is one conduited tributary from the south-west, and although the brook flows between the dwellings of a built up area all along Manchester Drive and Fairfax Drive one can walk along its course by means of a beautiful tree-lined path for some two and a half miles. There are eighteen road bridges for the young to crawl under. The Essex River Board tries to prevent dumping of rubbish by notice boards carrying the threat of £100 fines, but it is not entirely successful.
At last our brook enters the beautiful Priory Park, meanders some twelve times, connects up with the two fish ponds, bends east-north-east and in an obviously artificial straight course reaches Priory Crescent (a main road) and the Ekco factory. Traces of the original bend and course are visible by the little stone bridge. In the Ekco forecourt are a weir and the concreted sides which made an ARP fire-fighting reservoir in World War II. In four drainage pipes from the factory live the “wild cats”with their canteen bins and water close to hand.
Permission was readily granted to follow the brook through Ekco, under the railway alongside the sewage works (where again the river has been straightened as it flows northwards, to allow a huge dust-heap to be tipped) and over the Sutton fields of the farmer, Mr Alec Steel, where beautiful meanders run naturally and lovely trees and birds were found. Then, at the last meander, the river becomes tidal and has dyke walls to Sutton Road Bridge and beyond, where, at Fleet Hall Farm, we saw it join the River Roach opposite Stambridge mill.
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*****If you enjoy this cache and would like a more 'extreme' and
exciting caching experience, try our cache Sebby's revenge -
Shelob's Lair GC34P6W.*****
Additional Hints
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