MVT 16 Delectable Mountains (Lidlington) Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/27/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:

The terrain is low if you come from the top. If you walk up from the other caches below than it will be very steep!

Set in the beautiful Forest of Marston Vale. The Vale is one of 12 Community Forests in England. Community Forests were set up around towns and cities in the early 1990s, to improve land affected by industrial use in the past. The Forest of Marston Vale covers 61 square miles of Bedfordshire between Ampthill, Milton Keynes and Bedford

One of the pleasures of living in Lidlington is knowing that one could be on the Delectable Mountains of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progess", meaning he could have had it in mind when he created them in the fantasy land of his book.

On the Delectable Mountains there were vineyards and fountains, gardens and orchards. Here the pilgrims Christian and Hopeful drank and washed at the fountains, and ate freely of the vineyards.

Fountains and vineyards are imports of the imagination into the local scene. But from a little way off the clay slope and Greensand Ridge at Lidlington do indeed look like pleasant mountains rising from the Bedfordshire Plain. And when you actually get here and look back, the sight of the flat Plain on a sunny day unfolds into a vista of dreamy distance. It is reminiscent, in a smaller perspective, of fair views from many higher hills and mountains, such as those of the Severn Plain from the hills of Malvern.

The steep hill rising from the village to the south has been held to be the Hill Difficulty. This had a spring of water at the foot of it, as we all know, the resources of the Water Company do not always succeed in stopping springs from flowing today.

Ascending the hill, Christian was forced to go on his hands and knees because of the steepness. This does rather exaggerate the effect of the one-in-ten gradient. But a tinker on foot with a heavy load, or driving a horse and cart, might well have found it a bit daunting



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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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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