Firmounth - Dinnet Pill Box Traditional Cache
Firmounth - Dinnet Pill Box
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This route takes you from the Deeside Way at Dinnet into Glen Tanar. We follow part of the ancient drove road- the ‘Firmounth’ - and pass through Dinnet Oakwood. The route consists of a mixture of grass surfaces, crushed stone and unmade road. The route has direction signs to indicate the way and is suitable for walking and cycling.
Please take note of any warning and information signs that the Ranger Service and the Estate have displayed.
The recommended starting point (and the notes are written for this direction) is from Dinnet and ends near to the Glen Tanar Visitor Centre. It is also possible to follow the route in the other direction. There is a ‘pay and display’ car park clearly signposted at Glen Tanar and the recommended parking at Dinnet is the car park at the crossroads in the centre of the village.
These caches have been placed by agreement with Glen Tanar.
As you walk to the geocache, you will pass a concrete pill box. Pillboxes are concrete dug-in guard posts, normally equipped with loopholes through which to fire weapons. This pill box commands an excellent view over the bridge across the River Dee, and during the Second World War some 20,000 were build in the UK. This one has a date inside of 1939.
This cache is not in the pill box but near the track a little way further on.
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