Fisherman's Walk Traditional Cache
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Can grab this one quickly as not far but worth taking time to look around. Dog friendly and child friendly, tho not for buggies or wheelchairs. Watch for fisher-Muggles.
Congratulations to geo-g5 for First To Find :)
I drive through here regularly and have wanted to place a Cache here for a little while- Maud's causeway is a fascinating bit of history:
"Maud Heath's Causeway is a pathway in rural Wiltshire which rises above the Avon floodplain on sixty-four brick arches, as it carries an undistinguished country road between Bremhill and Langley Burrell.
The causeway is the gift of the eponymous Maud Heath; a sundial on the spot reports that she made her fortune carrying eggs to market at Chippenham. She was a widow and childless, and when she died "in the year of grace 1474, for the good of travellers did bestow in land and houses the sum of eight pounds a year foreer to be laid out on a causeway leading from Wick Hill to Chippenham Clift", which was, the path along which she had tramped to market several times a week for most of her life. Five hundred and some years later, the charity still maintains the path out of her bequest.
Memorial column to Maud Heath at Wick Hill
The Langley Burrell terminus - at Wick Hill - features an inscription in stone "From this hill begins the praise/ Of Maud Heath's gift to these Highways"'. Further up the Hill is a statue of the lady, erected on a high column in 1838 looking out over the Chippenham mud flats. The statue, in a bonnet and authentic plebeian clothes from the reign of Edward IV, was erected by the great Whig Lord Lansdowne, and features a poem by the critic William Lisle Bowles, who was vicar of Bremhill at the time, which reads: "Thou who dost pause on this aerial height/ Where Maud Heath's Pathway winds in shade and light/ Christian wayfarer in a world of strife/ Be still and consider the Path of Life."
Look for the steps opposite 'Injure me Not'.
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