A Walk in the Park Multi-Cache
CeeJ80: Containers are missing and have not been removed by me - decided to free up the route for someone else.
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This multi-cache series will lead you on a seven mile circuit following the Blue route around Hulne Park - following tarmac and gravel paths for seven miles, no hedge hopping or fence climbing required! Please note - apart from special events, dogs and bicycles are not allowed in the park.
Instructions - please read carefully!
Each of the first five caches features a number written at the top of the reverse side of the log. You need to write these down in order to complete the coordinates for the final stage. The caches in this series are small, so bring your own pen and inital the log rather than using full tags or stamps. If you are replacing a log, please remember to copy the final stage clue onto the new log!
Final stage: N 55° 25.175 W 001° ??.???
Hulne Park is owned by the Duke of Northumberland and is open to the public daily between 11am and sunset, although it is also closed to the public periodically throughout the year - usually for a few days during the winter shooting season.
Hulne Park is a walled park covering several thousand acres and is close to Alnwick Castle. There is public access to the park but it is not marketed as an attraction and there are no visitor facilities or toilets. The Park was origionally a hunting park, and still used by the Duke for shooting game, it now contains woods, moors, stretches of open grassland and a farm. The buildings in the park include the gatehouse of the former Alnwick Abbey, Brizlee Tower (a gothic folly that dates from the 1780s) and Hulne Piory.
This walk will take you past the gates of Hulne Priory - a monastery founded in the 13th century by the Carmelites, or "White Friars" and owned by the Percy family as part of Hulne Park since the disollution of the monastaries during the reign of Henry VIII. The priory is largely ruined but is often open to the public and featured as Marion's house in the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
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