Littleton Nano 2! Traditional Cache
staffscrumpet: Owner no longer geocaching due to cost.
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A(nother) Typical Nano Cache on the site of the old Littleton Colliery
Easily accessible from the new path from the housing estate.
The pit has now been completely demolished and area redeveloped although the area does retain some features if you look hard enough. The location to this cache is very near where the Colliery Railway used to run. See if you can spot the remaining features.
The area contains some drainage areas so probably not recommended for very little ones or night caching.
Littleton Colliery was sunk in 1877 but the original sinkings were lost through flooding and new shafts were sunk between 1899 and 1902. Despite its chequered start, the pit became one of the largest in the Midlands and the last colliery remaining on Cannock Chase. It was extensively modernised by the National Coal Board and in 1982 employed 1,900 miners, mining nearly a million tonnes of coal. However, after the controversial pit closure programme of the early 1990s, Littleton closed in 1994, overturning a reprieval a year earlier.
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