Track a Track #5 Navvy Camp Traditional Cache
Track a Track #5 Navvy Camp
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Terrain:
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Size: 
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This cache is part of a series along the route of a railway laid for the construction of the Abertillery & District Water Board's reservoir at the head of the Grwyne Fawr valley. This is a quick C&D with room to park nearby. Other caches can be found in the forest throughout the valley at sites of abandoned Farms and cottages.
You will need to collect clues from some of the first five to work out the location of the bonus cache.
Before any work on the construction of the dam the pipeline had to be laid and the road laid over it. This work was carried out by men who had been employed throughout Britain for years during the rise of the 'Canal Age'. They became known as navigators or 'Navvies' and now that railways were beginning to replace canals they took on any similar work. They were hard working men, used to rough living and harsh conditions and before any construction site village was established at Blaen y Cwm, lived 'on the job' in tents anywhere along the route of the pipeline. It was said that the lower grassy meadows of the valley were white with their tents and locally known as 'the navvy camps'.
There is no clue at this cache.
This cache is placed with the kind permission of Natural Resources Wales
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ynetr zbffl fyno.