Loamhole & Vane Coppice Trail 1. Traditional Cache
Loamhole & Vane Coppice Trail 1.
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
C3. Indian Rope Walk Trickery.
This Is the third and final trail of three centred around Sunnyside. Starting from the recommended parking for this walk, head up the hill from under the viaduct towards Sunnyside before picking up the trail just before the Severn Gorge Trust Office and follow the Rope Walk into Rope Walk meadow along a former tramway, soon after passing the meadow the path heads down quite a few steps into a tranquil area of Loamhole Dingle before climbing more steps out onto Jiggers Bank then up the road to enter Vain Coppice as the footpath that shows on most maps across the road from where you emerge out of Loamhole Dingle is no longer passable. There are even more steps in Vain Coppice before finally being able to relax on a nice gradual downhill track all the way back to the Dale End free parking area.
Each cache page in this series, Leasowes Trail series, Power Trail series 1 and 2 and Quaker Burial Ground give a clue to help locate the Immortal Kings.
There and quite a lot of steps on this walk on several steep gradients so be prepared as it isn't the easiest of walks.
This is the first cache on this trail and can be found alongside the Rope Walk and is wheelchair accessible.
Rope Walk is the name given to the path leading north off the road up to Sunniside. It is straight and well built, and terminates at an area of quarrying activity. Although the name suggests other origins, the quality and flatness of this path suggests that it may once have been the route of a plateway removing spoil or coal from the quarry. A rope walk was an area of open ground on which yarns would have been stretched out between revolving hooks and twisted together to make a length of rope. The finished ropes were certainly in demand by the collieries before the development of improved chain in the mid-19th century. They would also have been utilised on the boats travelling along the river Severn and employed in the many workshops and warehouses associated with the local iron industry.
Please note that like my other series the terrain ratings are my own and are based on the trail and not Geocaching guidelines, the higher the number the steeper the gradient, more difficult the terrain or the higher the probability that you may get hurt.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
QBA'GORURNILUNAQRQ,VGVFARNEGURONFRBSGURJNYY,UBARFG.
Treasures
You'll collect a digital Treasure from one of these collections when you find and log this geocache:
Loading Treasures