The Four Gates Crossing Traditional Cache
Run Around: Having moved away from the area I find it difficult to be able to maintain the cache.
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Access to the cache site on foot or cycle can be reached via the Flitch Way or through Hatfield Forest. If by car there is a small Lay By on the B1256 at N51˚ 52.183 E000˚ 13.567. Take extra care when crossing this busy road. You will see a narrow track opposite the Lay By, this will take you to the cache site.
The cache site is on the boundary of Hatfield Forest and the Flitch Way.
Hatfield Forest is the only remaining intact royal hunting forest from the time of the Norman kings, and is now maintained by the National Trust. It is open to the general public throughout the year.
Hatfield Forest is of supreme interest in that all the elements of a medieval forest survive : deer, cattle, coppice woods, pollards, scrub, timber trees, grassland, and fen,
There are a series of caches in the forest so why not make a day of it and enjoy the superb scenery.
The Flitch Way is a disused railway track open to walkers, cyclist, and horse riders. It is flat and mostly traffic free. There are many footpaths leading off the route to explore the countryside and the forest,
The route begins at Braintree, the junction of Roman roads from Chelmsford and Colchester, which became a thriving industrial centre by the 19th century, partly thanks to the coming of the railway.
The Braintree to Bishop`s Stortford line, decommissioned in 1972, now enjoys a new lease of life as a linear country park full of railway cuttings rich in wildlife dotted with attractive bridges and Victorian stations. It is also part of the National Cycle Network Route No 16.
The route name comes from the Flitch Trial, a folk custom still surviving today which originated in Little Dunmow. Every four years a married couple stands before a mock court – if they can prove to the satisfaction of the judge and jury that they have, for a year and a day, `not wished themselves unwed,` they are awarded half a pig known as a `flitch`( side) of bacon.
The Flitch Way also has many caches along its route.
You are looking for a small black flip top plastic container. It contains a Log Book, Pencil, and Sharpener.
Additional Hints
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CNFG CBFG