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Gloucester and Cheltenham Tramroad Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/4/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A Magnetic and camouflaged Micro with log sheet only.

A very busy and public location; cunning and guile essential. Good for practising stealth techniques. Help preserve this cache!


Like 'By Our Deeds We Are Known" (GC36VXR), just across the way, this cache sits right on the Wysis Way.
It can be a very busy area and is frequently a hive of activity, so please be very cautious. There is a handy seat nearby where you can sign the log.

This is the Gloucester end of the nine mile long Tramroad that operated from 1811 - 1861.
Horse drawn wagons were pulled along 3' 6" gauge cast iron rails.
They tried to use a steam engine called 'William' during 1831/1832 but it was too heavy and broke the rails.
Closed because it was uneconomic and inefficient, it was remembered in 1991 by the Gloucester Civic Trust and The Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology.

The Tramroad trundled along this road - now Albion Street and you can just see Southgate Street at the end of the road; the Tramroad began just behind the houses, at the entrance to the Docks.

As the 'road' curved away from Albion Street it coursed its way passed the northern edge of Gloucester Park, through the Barton District to Armscroft (Armscroft Park GC3BM2Q) then directly to Cheltenham and the Quarry on Leckhampton Hill.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

zvaq gur nkyr ternfr

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)