The AmesburyWilsfordDurnford (AWD) series is a circular route of 74 caches set along a 23km/14 mile route using bridleways, footpaths and roads starting from the Amesbury Recreation Ground (Bonneymead Park) car park (see waypoint below) and visiting the villages of Wilsford and Great Durnford. It should take about 7 hours to complete and as there are limited opportunities to stop for refreshments on the way around so it is recommended that take water and refreshments with you especially if you intend to complete the series in one go. A map recce will show that there are opportunities to break the series down into smaller loops and a couple of further car park waypoints are shown below to help in the planning. Also if you are group caching and have two cars even more options in completing the series are open to you. You will get to see some lovely views on the way around.
All caches are placed to be found and to protect the logs from dampness the majority of containers, but not all, have been double potted therefore you may have to hunt the container for the log. Various container types have been used throughout but you need to BYOP. The D/T rating is applicable to each cache and not the series as a whole.
If not already found you will have the opportunity to visit these caches on route as well:
Little Bridges # 149 – Normanton GC4Q8J7
Church Micro 1598 - St Michael, Wilsford GC2NA02
Defender of the Airfield - High Post (Long Gone) GC477HH
Church Micro 205 Great Durnford GC1VEX6
Aqua Plain GC1BDVQ and of course if you have not completed our other series DSW GC5PQR4 you pass close to the series in Upper Woodford.
Should you find any damp/wet logs we are more than happy for you to replace them to keep the game going until we can get out and sort them out. Please make a suitable comment in your logs if you do this.
WARNINGS Not only this cache but AWD #10,# 29 and #72 are also Little Bridges. At times there will be wet, muddy and overgrown areas and also during the growing season expect stingers and thorns. A few area along and around the river Avon are prone to flooding after prolonged periods of rain and will be best navigated wearing wellington boots. There is some country road walking therefore care should be taken especially with children and animals. This is not a completely flat series and in places it is quite exposed so be prepared. The only live stock we encountered whilst setting the series were sheep but you will, however, see a number of horses on the route but you will not cross any fields with them in.
We hope you all enjoy this Series - TheTwoMotts & Wandering Druid.
Now for the first in the series.
Close to the posted coords you will see three sets of dates. Let the first set be: A D then make the three numbers following this: A B C Let the second set be: D E F G - H J K L
The cache can be found at: N51 10.F(D+H)K W001 47.(D+H)(D+H)(D+H+L)
The Little Bridges series was started by Stanthews in 2009 to highlight small footbridges in remote parts of Wiltshire. Since then the series has been expanded by others all over the country and starting to spread fast, Damian from Winter Foxes has created and updates a list of cachers who has found 10 or more little bridges and can be found http://legresley.me.uk/LittleBridges.html, if you would like to add to the series, please contact Stan on stanthews@aol.com and he will give you a number for your bridge, to qualify, the bridge must be a foot bridge too small for vehicles, please make sure your title exactly matches “Little Bridges # xx then name” including spaces so it will get picked up and added to Damian’s list.