Stanford Stomp #17: Stanford Hall View Traditional Cache
BalooCrew: Checking the geocaches along our trauil today. Sorry we are going to have archive this one because the brambles have become so large here that they make it impractical for anyone to access the cache. We can't even reach to recover our container. We will put another new geocache along the trail shortly to replace this one. Thanks to all the visitors.
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Stanford Stomp #17: Stanford Hall View
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A series of 23 caches following a circular route from Stanford-on-Soar to Rempstone and back across the Hoton Hills. Terrain is fairly level with one steep incline (25 m height gain) from the King’s Brook to the Hoton Hills ridge. The trail is all on public bridleways and footpaths, Between caches #11, #12 and #13 you may will need to walk along the busy A60 road. However, this has a footpath set away from the road but please do take extra care if accompanied by children and/or dogs.
A small, camouflaged, round clip-lock plastic container. It contains a log book and pencil, and a number of small "treasures" for trading and swapping. Please trade fairly. The geocache is located at the side of the bridleway running along the Hoton Hills ridge. Please ensure the geocache is replaced carefully in exactly the same place as you found it, and out of direct view.
From the cache site you will get an excellent view of Stanford Hall to the west. The present hall was built in the late 1700's for Charles Vere Dashwood and subsequently owned from the late 19th century by the very wealthy Ratcliffe family. The grounds are private with no public access, so the view from this point is one of the best possible views of the house that can normally be seen by the public. Southwards, the view looks over the Soar Valley and Loughborough to the Charnwood Hills in the distance. To the east you will ee the gentle rolling hills of the Wolds towards Prestwold and Walton.
The footpath on the Stanford Stomp trail will take you alongside the King’s Brook for just under half the circuit, before gently climbing up to Rempstone, and then back across the top of the Hoton Hills ridge to Stanford Lane. The trail will afford you fine views of Stanford Hall to the northwest, and to the south you will have a scenic vista across the Soar Valley and over Loughborough to the Charnwood Hills on the southern skyline. All of the caches on this trail are on public footpaths and public bridleways, with the exception of #23, which is located alongside a new permissive path and Stanford Lane on open access land. The total distance of the circuit is about 11 km, which will take between 2-2.5 hours (plus caching time). A wide variety of geocache containers and disguises have been used on the trail: some are very easy but some are designed to be challenging. We hope you enjoy the variety.
Many of the field margins are being managed to help conserve farmalnd and woodland wildlife under the Higher Stewardship Scheme. Please keep to the footpaths and keep dogs under control. Keep a look out for a large variety of birdlife, and if you are lucky you may even get a rare sighting of an otter along the King's Brook or along Stanford lane (we have)
In some of the geocaches you will find a secret code letter and number or you may need to record a number from a feature associated with some of the geocaches, which you will need in order to find the coordinates of the "Stanford Stomp Bonus Cache". Be sure to record these if you want to find the bonus cache.
At this geocache the CODE LETTER is F = 2 x THE NUMBER OF LARGE OLD TREE STUMPS
You can also take in a few other nearby geocaches while doing this series: " Holy Cow" (GC2YWG9), Enigma Code (GC2YWGW), Rockers Cache 1 (GC1NTTD) and "Borderline" (GCMMPC).
CONGRATULATIONS TO PLASMAWAVE AND LAVAFLOW ON FTF
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Bapr cebhq naq gnyy, nynf ab ybatre
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