#29 Kerry Ridgeway - Lower Short Ditch Multi-Cache
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#29 Kerry Ridgeway - Lower Short Ditch
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This is a series of 47 caches along the Kerry Ridgeway – a gentle 15 mile route from Cider House Farm near Kerry in Wales, across the border to Bishops Castle in Shropshire. It holds a long tradition as a trade and drovers’ route from Wales to the lowland English markets.
The route has been divided into four sections – all sections can be completed on foot, bike, or horse. Sections 2 and 4 can be done as a drive-by, but please be aware that the roads are narrow and not always in the best state of repair – watch out for potholes, especially if it has been raining. Drive carefully and be considerate where you park.
SECTION 1: Cider House to Block Wood (caches #1 - #11)
Parking either N52 27.278 W003 18.767 (Cider House
Car Park) or N52 28.075 W003 15.272 (Block Wood Car
Park)
SECTION 2: Kerry Pole to Long Plantation (caches #12 - #25)
Can be completed as drive by or numerous places for
parking en-route
SECTION 3: Long Plantation to Pantglas (caches #26 - #37)
Parking available at N52 29.143 W003 09.315 (Long
Plantation), N52 29.300 W003 08.738 (Turbary Nature
Reserve) or N52 29.933 W003 06.666 (Pantglas)
SECTION 4: Pantglas to Bishops Castle (caches #38 - #47)
Can be completed as drive by or several places for parking
en-route and in Bishops Castle.
PLEASE BRING A PEN
LOWER SHORT DITCH
This is the third prehistoric earthwork across this ancient route, it's purpose yet again uncertain. To the right beyond the ditch and rough lane is Turbary Plantation. Turbury was the name given in the middle-ages to the right to dig for peat to use as fuel. Today the area is a nature reserve.
Answer the following questions from the information board relative to the location not the one that shows the whole Ridgeway in the parking area. Use your answer to work out the co-ordinates for the final cache.
Phone number on the board ABCDEFGHIJK
Final Co-ordinates = N52 G (B+J). E G (C-B) W003 A J. (J-I) (E+F) E
THE FINAL CACHE IS NOT ON THE DITCH OR NATURE RESERVE.
Please rehide carefully
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Onfr bs cbfg jvgu fhccbeg gb yrsg
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