Catterall Cache Traditional Cache
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A quick cache in Catterall. A turtle container, stocked with a few trinkets to start off. Pencil and sharpener also for your convenience!
Please park sensibly and watch the road carefully. Also be respectful around the cenotaph and appreciate where you are.
Catterall is situated on the A6 between Lancaster and Preston, a short distance from the town of Garstang, and Myerscough College.
The Wyre, Calder and River Brock, run through the parish and in places form the parish boundary. Catterall is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Catrehala.
The first section of the name may be associated with a cat. However, this is an educated guess, as no other evidence has been uncovered to support the theory, other than the observation that the old parish boundary had the appearance of a (cats?) tongue.
The parish is traversed by several important routes, including the A6, the M6 Motorway, the West Coast Main Line, the B6430 and the Lancaster Canal, all of which run, more-or-less north to south. The parish was served by Garstang and Catterall railway station, which used to stand on the West Coast Main Line, but was closed in the 1960s and later demolished.
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