WWay80 – Not On The Wirral Way!!! Traditional Cache

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Wirral Geocachers: After 48,000 logs on the WirralWay and ill health its time to archive them.
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Hidden : 3/1/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

SERIES BEING ARCHIVED 31/8/20 The Wirral Ways 40th Anniversary

This cache is NOT located on the Wirral Way, but is close to its end in Hooton.

The “Wirral Way” is a 12-mile countryside path which follows the route of the former Birkenhead Railway route from West Kirby to Hooton. The old line, which closed in 1962, follows the River Dee estuary for 7 miles between West Kirby and Parkgate, and then heads across the Wirral to Hooton.

The Wirral Country Park was the first designated country park in Britain, and is based around the Wirral Way. Work started on the park in 1969, and the park was formally opened in 1973 by Lord Leverhulme. Thus, 2013 is the 40th anniversary of both the Wirral Country Park and Wirral Way.

Near to this hide you can see a picture of a World War II Spitfire. This relates to RAF Hooton Park.

RAF Hooton Park on the Wirral, was a Royal Air Force station originally built for the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 as a training aerodrome for pilots in World War I. During the early/mid-1930s, it was one of the two airfields (with Liverpool Speke) handling scheduled services for the Merseyside region. Hooton Park was home to No. 610 (County of Chester) Squadron and, post World War II, to No. 611 (West Lancashire) and No. 663 (AOP) Squadron.

The airfield closed in 1957 after the disbandment of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, but the three pairs of Belfast Truss hangars, erected in 1917, survived the closure. After closure, the aerodrome became the site of the north’s biggest agricultural show (the Cheshire Show). This continued until 1977, after which the runways were used by Shell Research for testing cars at high speed.

Finally in the 1960s, the site was bought by Vauxhall Motors, who developed their Vauxhall Ellesmere Port plant, which today produces the Vauxhall Astra. The small remaining section of the airfield site is now owned and managed by The Hooton Park Trust. The hangars are also home to The Griffin Trust, 610 (County of Chester) Squadron Association, and an aircraft preservation society named The Aeroplane Collection.


(This cache is being maintained by Team Tazmina of the Wirral Geocachers)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ha-Cbfgrq

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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