Whilst on holiday in Charmouth we enjoyed doing the '...Calling' series and so wanted to develop this type of cache back in our home area. This links on from our other caches; Poulner Calling (GC66FT3), Rockford Calling (GC6N5JC) and South Gorley Calling (GC6N5JV). We often geocache with our children and their grandparents, and so wanted to develop a series that has easy parking and good facilities nearby.
Unfortunately BT no longer allow geocaches in or on their phone boxes, so this one is located a very short distance away. It is a small magnetic container and you might want to bring your own pen. There is plenty of parking nearby, and if you are lucky you might see some of the New Forest donkeys that like to wander here!
Fascinating Fact: Very close to here are the remains of RAF Ibsley, a busy RAF airfield during WWII. After the war it became an accommodation base for personnel from the nearby RAF station at Sopley. RAF Ibsley opened on 15th February 1941, flying activities ceased in 1946, and the station finally closed in 1952. On 24th April 2000 a polished granite commemorative plaque resting on a Purbeck stone base was unveiled to mark the role RAF Ibsley played in WWII and beyond. It rests on the existing wartime concrete base of the airfield's old guardroom at Cross Lanes, Mockbeggar just down the road from here.
Congratulations to SeekingSalters for FTF.