Writtle Amble - Hedge Row Traditional Cache

A short stroll of around a mile on the footpaths of Writtle, the first part of the path up to the allotments is very accessible, after that it turns into a small defined path, which can get muddy in winter, all the caches are placed along or just off the path.  This series was placed to coincide with the Essex Mega Venue announcement meet. 

Writtle holds a distinguished place in the history of radio broadcasting. In the early 1920s it was the site of the experimental Marconi station 2MT ("Two Emma Toc"), from where Captain Peter Eckersley made the name of the village famous with his station announcement "this is Two Emma Toc, Writtle testing, Writtle testing". The pre-fabricated hut from which the broadcast was made (constructed for use during the first world war, but never shipped to the war zone) was later relocated to King's Road primary school in Chelmsford, and has now been re-erected with replica equipment at the Sandford Mill museum, near Sandon. The Writtle transmission station was also the last independent outside the BBC, suspending transmission in January 1923. Independent radio did not re-emerge in the UK till the 1960s.

Remember to collect the bonus number.