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Roseberry Romp #13 - The Roseberry Ironstone Mine Traditional Cache

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Big G & Pix: Removing the Roseberry Romp as many of the caches are a bit past their best or destroyed. A new romp will appear some time in the near future.

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Hidden : 3/9/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The National Trust's Roseberry Romp


This series of caches will take you on a circular walk around Roseberry Topping of around 5 miles. Some caches are small and well hidden, while other are large with plenty of room for swaps.

The National Trust is a charity that protects special places in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, for ever, for everyone


Today Roseberry is a place of natural beauty where you can get away from it all, but if you'd have visited between 1880 and 1924 it may have been considerably less peaceful.

During this time the ironstone seam that runs through Roseberry was extensively mined to feed Middlesbrough's blast furnaces. Remains of many of the mine buildings can still be found close to the track down to Aireyholme Farm. The remains of a tramway sysytem and a cable haulage system used to transport the mined ironstone can also be seen in the woods.

This is a small cache with room for swaps, travelbugs or geocoins.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)