The Cake is a Lie Traditional Cache
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This cache is located in the vicinity of the Husbands Bosworth canal Tunnel. It is a small, brown ,screw-cap container. Update:Difficulty rating increased to a 4. Please see long description for details.
Update: visited this cache on 03-01-15 after a couple of comments regarding the difficulty. Discovered that the tree has grown around the knot hole that the cache was hidden inside and the hole is now too small for an adult hand to fit inside. I'm not entirely sure that the cache will fit out of the hole even if you manage to get hold of it. There were s number of snails hibernating in the hole so it was all rather slimy. I'm not sure how to get the cache out now as the container is glass with a plastic screw cap and is spherical in shape so there is no easy way to get hold of it. The bank is also very slippery currently with no easy way to gain purchase on the slope whilst working in the problem of retrieving the cache without hanging into the tree itself. I've changed the difficulty rating to a 4 because of all of this. Good luck to anyone who tries to retrieve it, I didn't manage! The canal towpaths around Foxton are well populated with walkers and tourists, but this cache is placed in a much quieter, less walked section of the canal on the Grand Union stretch from Foxton to Crick leading towards the old tunnel at Husbands Bosworth.
The Leicestershire and Northampton Union Canal reached Gumley in 1797, but did not reach Market Harborough until 1809. The canal was then extended out past Market Harborough following the contours of the land towards Warwick. This section is one of the longest level stretches in the whole canal system. Two tunnels were required to complete this stretch of canal, one at Crick and one at Husbands Bosworth.
The tunnel at Husbands Bosworth was opened in 1813 and is 1166 yards (1.06km) long. The tunnel is unusual for one of this length as it has no ventilation shafts and no towing path – boats had to be ‘legged’ through the tunnel whilst horses were led over the top. The straight cut means that it is possible to see the light at the end of the tunnel from one end to the other, despite its distance.
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Bire gur cbegny
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