Labtebricolephile means a person or thing which likes to live in a hole. Rather apt for a geocache, I thought. This one appears briefly in the book Surface Detail, but without describing its type.
Iain Banks was an author renowned for his mainstream fiction novels, as well as science fiction, and one book, 'The Crow Road', was adapted for television some years ago. He used the middle initial M to distinguish between his science fiction work and other fiction. I was fortunate to meet Iain Banks at the Literary Festival a couple of years ago. He was a very nice man. He died in June 2013 of cancer.
I also have another cache based on another of Ian M Banks' science fiction novels. This is Feersum Endjinn ( GC3MP23 ), one of the Cheltenham Circular Caching Challenge (CCCC) series. The CCCC is a 26 mile circuit around Cheltenham, following Cheltenham Circular Path. Some of the series pass close by in Shurdington.
If you have climbed up the escarpment to the top, you might consider some of the caches nearby, such as Glorious Gloucestershire ( GC18FA ), which last year celebrated 10 years as a geocache, obviously making it one of the oldest caches around.
Greenway Lane is impassable to motor vehicles beyond the cattle grid, unless you have a quad bike or Land Rover. The Lane is steep, rocky and muddy, and was virtually a stream when I last walked up it. It can be slippery underfoot. It is possible to access the Lane from the top, joining the circuit at SOTC#4. There are livestock in the fields, usually cattle out on the Common, with horses in the fields by the farm. Please keep geodogs under control. Some of the paths on the Common can be welly-boot sticky. Please observe the Country Code, closing all gates behind you.
The cache is located just off the footpath which crosses Greenway Lane. The cache is a clear plastic tub with a screw-top lid. As GPS results are inconsistent, please use the hint to locate the GZ.
Congratulations FTF!
Razorfishy
28th July 2012