This cache is located on a bridge crossing the River Erewash. This is a flood area so during or after prolonged periods of rain this area can be difficult to access.
The Erewash rises in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, but is partly culverted as it flows south westward from the town. It surfaces definitively to the north of Kirkby Woodhouse and flows roughly westward, under the M1 motorway, and between Pinxton and Selston. It then becomes the approximate county boundary between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, flowing roughly south, between Langley Mill and Eastwood, skirting the east of Ilkeston, where it becomes also the boundary of the Borough of Erewash. The river continues south between Sandiacre and Stapleford until, at Toton, it turns east and flows into the River Trent, at the Attenborough Nature Reserve, near Long Eaton.
It gives its name to the Erewash Valley, which has a rich industrial history, and the local government district and borough of Erewash, which was named after the river when the former borough of Ilkeston and urban district of Long Eaton were united with some of the surrounding rural areas in 1974.
Although the river is not navigable at any part, it is paralleled by the Erewash Canal for much of its length, from (Langley Mill to the River Trent); north of Langley Mill, it was paralleled by the abandoned Cromford Canal (from the branch to Pinxton).
Well done tokerrfamilySBD for FTF, Spire67 for STF and Amazing_Fandango for TTF