#1 CM Farm Trail - Start Traditional Cache
Hanoosh: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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Brenda
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The Cymbeline Meadows Farm Trail is just over 1½ miles long. This is the first cache on a series of 7. You can also grab a couple of other caches along the way. The area is very muddy and often flooded in places so welly boots are highly recommended.
Accessibility: There is limited parking for the series right next to #1. You can reach it by turning left into Wet Lane (off Spring Lane) just past the Sports Ground. The first stretch has a good tarmac style path, but very soon it turns into a muddy path with many kissing gates which are pretty impossible to negotiate with a buggy. The area is often flooded in places so please be prepared.
There are also pedestrian entrances, on Cymbeline Way (Remembrance Avenue), further up Spring Lane next to Lexden Wood Golf Club, and one off Bergholt Road/Tufnell Way that starts with a slightly dodgy tunnel that goes under the railway line.
This area bordering the River Colne was originally owned by Lexden Lodge farm and was acquired by the council in 1988. Most of it is now farmed by the Council's tenant farmer in a wildlife-friendly way, with limited use of pesticides and features such as 'conservation headlands' – strips along the edge of arable fields sown with non-invasive wild flowers that serve as reservoirs to beneficial insects.
Some new wooded areas have been planted including Charter Wood by the railway line, and smaller copses beside the river. The river and its bankside meadows form a wildlife corridor running through urban Colchester. The river is important as a flood channel and the meadows flood regularly, although the farm trail is usually accessible, all be it very muddy!
In the summer months there may be cows grazing on some parts of this land so please take care especially if you have a dog with you.
This series of caches was published with kind permission from the park rangers at Colchester Borough Council. There are no caches hidden next to the river, and the Rangers have asked that cachers stay away from the river so as not to disturb the wildlife.
This first cache is very close to the parking area. You are looking for a small camo pot.
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