25 Froggie's Leap Around The Creek Traditional Cache
froggie02: Sadly due to this series having lots of unforeseen issues with caches going missing and people logging finds without even going there and signing the logs, it's time to say goodbye. Thanks to all those that did find and made the effort.
25 Froggie's Leap Around The Creek
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Welcome to Froggie's Leap Around The Creek
This lovely little leap will take you through parts of Milton Regis and several footpaths in and around Milton Creek and along the Saxon Shore Way before looping back into Milton Creek Country Park and back to the start.
I have placed 26 caches in total, 22 trad's, 3 mutli's and a bonus cache. Roughly 4.7 miles and it took me about 3 hours but then I was placing not finding!! Enjoy!
Milton creek is a shallow tidal inlet which runs north-east from Sittingbourne to join the Swale at Elmley Reach. The area has a rich heritage dating from the Roman period and was an important industrial waterway from the Middle Ages to the middle of the last century.
Once an important centre for the oyster industry, by the mid-19th Century the Creek had become an important commercial hub for the paper and brick manufacturing trades, and of the cement industry. Collectively, these industries changed the fortunes of Sittingbourne and the surrounding areas, as well as the local natural environment. The banks of the Creek were scattered with wharfs, yards and berths of the many companies utilising its resources.
The paper industry made use of the Creek’s supply of water by sinking wells into the Creek to increase the flow of water. The waste water returned to the Creek is said to have given the area it’s bad smell. The Brick and Cement industries utilised the abundance of natural raw materials in the area, chiefly clay and chalk. The Creek also provided the means of transporting the finished goods using Thames spritsail sailing barges and later tugs and lighters.
The escalation of the rail and road networks in the early 20th Century meant the barges became a less viable means of transport. Along with much of the industry along Milton Creek they had all but disappeared by the end of the Second World War. So called ‘slum clearance's' in the 1970s made way for multiple industrial estates which now dominate the right side of the Creek whilst a substantial housing estate and lately the new Country Park can be found on the left side. Today Milton Creek is mostly silted up and the new Northern Relief Road mean that it is no longer navigable by vessels with fixed masts.
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