Newcomen Trial Traditional Cache
elsecarbennetts: I want to archive as the container has been removed by a third party. There are also complaints from a neighborouring property.
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Parking can be found at the nearby Elsecar Heritage Centre, and it is only a short walk to the Geocahce location. The cache is easily accesible and can to accessed on bikes, or with prams. The location is accessible by wheelchair, but it may be difficult to retrieve. There is no need to look in the wall. We have tried to make this simple, and family orientated as it is our first attempt and we know the joys people get when a geocache is found.
This is a small cache around the size of an old 35mm camera film case. We have placed a gift in the cache, if you remove the gift please replace it with one of a similar value. There is already a pencil in the cache please sugn the paper and replace the pencil.
Take in the wonders of the Newcomen Beam Engine.This one of South Yorkshire’s finest surviving legacies of the Industrial Revolution. Built in 1795 the Engine was designed to extract water from Elsecar New Colliery to allow the exploration of deeper coal seams. The Beam Engine ran from 1795 to 1923 when it was replaced by electric pumps, at its peak it could draw up to 600 gallons per minute. The Newcomen Beam Engine is the only one of its kind in the world to remain in its original location. In 1972 the engine was classified as a scheduled ancient monument and is one of the top 10 key industrial sites on English Heritage's Heritage at Risk Register due to its 'outstanding importance to England's industrial past'.
Additional Hints
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"Yrnir ab fgbar haghearq"