Binsey Traditional Cache
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This involves an up hill walk of about 30 minutes along a well used track.
This cache was oringinaly called the "Heffalumps Peak" and noticed that it had been disabled, I have utalised the old box and it is in the same place. Binsey is a hill on the northern edge of the Lake District in Cumbria. It is detached from the rest of the Lakeland hills, and thus provides a good spot to look out at the Northern and North Western Fells of the Lake District, as well as the coastal plain and, across the Solway Firth to Scotland. Snaefell on the Isle of Man is also visible on a clear day. It is the most northern most of the Wainwrights. Binsey stands on the otherwise low-level watershed separating the catchments of the Ellen to the north and the Derwent to the south. A slight ridge connects it to Great Cockup in the main massif of the Northern Fells, two miles to the south east. Binsey itself has a rounded form, but somehow manages to impress the eye more than the similar Great Mell Fell and Little Mell Fell. The "pudding basin" shape holds all around Binsey except to the north west where a ridge descends over Whitas Park to a depression containing the remains of a Roman fort. Beyond is St John's Hill (950 ft) called Caermote Hill in Wainwright's Outlying Fells which is topped by an earthwork called "The Battery". Finally the ridge descends to the village of Bothel in the Ellen Valley.
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