GeoKids Kit Climb 1: The Start of Your Trail Traditional Cache
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GeoKids Kit Climb 1: The Start of Your Trail
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GeoKids Kit Climb is a short series of 3 caches, climbing and descending the steep Kit Hill Incline Railway line on Kit Hill. This area is popular with dog walkers, joggers and other muggles, so please be discreet when hunting. From start to finish, this walk is 1.1 miles and with GeoKids in tow, should take around 90 mins to complete. Please use the suggested parking and look around as you ascend the Incline railway; the views are stunning.
This series is placed by GeoKids for GeoKids and is designed so each cache is easy to find; being placed close to the next and at kids height, either on the ground or at GeoKids head height. Each cache is a small plastic square container with a bright coloured lid. There are FTF bonuses and GeoKids swap rocks in each cache; please take the rocks and move them on! As you find each of the caches, turn around and look at the amazing views from the North side of Kit Hill.
The series starts in the Kit Hill Incline Car Park, opposite the turning for Downgate & Stoke Climsland. Park here and let the series take you up one of the most historic sites in Kelly Bray. Stout footwear and plenty to drink is advisable and whilst most of the caches are hidden very close to the Incline Railway, take care when wet, as some of the rocks can be a bit slippery. The series will take you up and down the Incline Railway, which is a very steep path. Whilst this is extremely well maintained, it is not suitable for pushchairs or cycles. At the end of the series, walk a little further on to the suggested rest point in Kit Hill Quarry, now a lake.
An incline such as the one at Kit Hill was a steeply graded railway that uses a cable or a rope to haul trains. By letting gravity do the work, there is no need for an engine. Inclines have been part of the industrial and railway infrastructure for a very long time.
As the highest and most distinctive hill in the vicinity, Kit Hill may have had religious significance in prehistoric times. At least 18 burial mounds occur on its slopes, including
one beneath the summit chimney, and traces of early field systems can be seen on aerial photographs.
In more recent times, Kit Hill was an important strategic point above the natural boundary of the Tamar River. In the 9th Century, the battle of Hingston Down was fought on the lower slopes, when combined forces of the Cornish and the Danes were defeated by the invading Saxons, bringing an end to Cornish independence.
The rather ornate landmark chimney which dominates
the summit of the Hill dates from 1858 and was part of the pumping arrangements for a series of mining concerns which operated until 1885. Mining last took place at Kit Hill during the First World War when tin and tungsten were sought and many mining relics relating to this and other workings remain.
More information about Kit Hill and the Incline Railway can be found at these links (some of this text has been borrowed from these sites):
http://brucehunt.co.uk/inclines.html
http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=9896
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