CONGRATULATIONS ON FIRST TO FIND. WELSH GEO-FERRET ABLY ASSISTED BY TEAM WOLFPACK !!! The cache is located at the highest point on the quarry and can be accessed from the quarry floor by steps or by following the boundary from the Pant Lane entrance where there will be a small car park.
The land now known as Maes y Pant has been quarried for many years, latterly by McAlpines who were taken over by Carillion in 2008. News that the land was available to purchase came in 2006. Following a public meeting at Gresford Memorial Hall, a committee was set up and by December 2007 funds had been raised from Mersey Waste Holdings to purchase the land, with third party funding provided by Gresford Community Council and additional financial support from IMAGE. Funding to develop a feasibility study was provided through Northern Marches Cymru.
There were long delays in the legalities of transferring ownership of the land from the vendors. The land was originally purchased for quarrying in small parcels, each individual parcel (around 40 of them) had to be individually registered with the Land Registry, which was a very slow process.
Finally, at the end of March 2011, legalities were completed, £70,000 changed hands and the Board of the Maes y Pant Action Group now owns the former quarry site off Pant Lane.
A five year development plan for footpaths, signage and site maintenance has been agreed by MyPAG and the North Wales Wildlife Trust will be the managing agents for this period.