Mǽres-ēa Traditional Cache

If using the suggested parking coords the approach to the cache will be fairly muddy and appropriate footwear is a must. Also the area immediatley around GZ is quite steep and near a stream/river so care should be taken.

The modern day River Mersey begins when the Rivers Goyt and Tame merge in the centre of Stockport, For centuries, it formed part of the boundary between the historic counties of Lancashire and Cheshire.Travel back through history and the River Mersey seems to get longer and longer! The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica states "It is formed by the junction of the Goyt and the Etherow a short distance below Marple in Cheshire on the first-named stream." The 1784 John Stockdale map shows the River Mersey extending to Mottram, and forming the boundary between Cheshire and Derbyshire. The word Mersey derives from the Anglo-Saxon "mǽres- ēa" (a boundary - a river). It is widely accepted that in Anglo-Saxon times the River Mersey was the Boundary River which formed the border between the Kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria.