This is the fifth in my Running The Ridge series. If you have liked my other caches I'm sure you will appreciate this.
I've been thinking about this one for awhile, and due to some logging in the area I've had to rethink the site. Please disturb the area around the cache as little as possible and treat the woods and trail with respect and take any litter home with you. Sorry, it's not suitable for wheelchairs. Bring your own pen, and replace as found.
Having lived in the area for many years, I have run along the Greensand Ridge Walk between Lidlington and Ampthill Park many times. It is also part of The John Bunyan Trail and The Marston Vale Timberland Trail, all three are worth exploring. This is a great trail and hill running route, combined with a few circuits of the park. It has been good training for the various events I have entered including Mountain Marathons and the LDWA's Hundred Mile Challenges. Over the years I have seen it through all the seasons and many different weathers and spied many of the local wildlife. Some of my favourite times have been out on a beautiful sunny winters morning, in the snow, and not seeing a single soul, wondering why no one else is out! Then on arriving at Ampthill Park, I see all the families out with their sledges and having fun.
Direct access to the cache can be from three routes.
1. Millbrook car park at (N52 02.336' W000 31.601). Just follow the GRW signs up the hill.
2. Lidlington village roadside parking, and follow the High Street up the hill (very carefully) and turn left to Jackdaw Hill and onto to the GRW. There may be limited parking at the top at Boughton End Lane (N52 02.062' W000 33.398') to avoid the hill.
3. And my favourite, from Lidlington village, the bridleway behind the children's park and village graveyard, follows an undulating route with a great view and then into the depths of the woods. It joins the GRW near the cache.
And still keep looking out for that old bearded bald guy running by, he may be the cache owner!