Tame View: Bentley Traditional Geocache

A nice simple easy cache situated near a Pub and a local hotel. The cache is very close to the River Tame (Willenhall Arm) where the River is in its early stages. Parking can be found on the pub car park or next to GZ if the Truckers are not there.

THE RIVER TAME:

The Willenhall Arm of The River Tame has been traced back to as far as Stow Heath, near Bilston, where it is marked by a marshy patch at the northern end of the City of Wolverhampton College Wellington Road campus. The stream runs invisibly but generally north-east through Stowlawn, and then cuts across the southern edge of Willenhall, appearing briefly among the warehouses, and picking up reinforcement from the Waddens Brook, which originates in Wednesfield. It appears definitively Watery Lane and Noose Lane, even more so at Bentley, where it runs south through the industrial part of Bentley, before turning south-east, following a realigned course alongside and beneath the M6 motorway, to Bescot where it meets the Oldbury Arm. The unified Tame then flows, partly through channels realigned to make way for the M6 motorway and its interchange with the M5, through Sandwell Valley and into north Birmingham. It passes through Hamstead, through Perry Hall Park to Perry Barr, where it is crossed by Perry Bridge of 1711, then through Witton and beneath Gravelly Hill Interchange (where it is fed by the Rea) and beneath Bromford Viaduct, to Washwood Heath. 

Skirting to the north of Castle Bromwich, it leaves Birmingham to the north east at Park Hall Nature Reserve, passing Water Orton in Warwickshire. At Hams Hall, immediately after its confluence with the River Blythe and the little River Bourne, it turns sharply to take up a northward course, and soon feeds into the large complex of water purification lakes at Lea Marston that now make up Kingsbury Water Park. It then crosses into Staffordshire flowing through Middleton Lakes RSPB reserve in a wide valley between Drayton Bassett to the west and Dosthill to the east. It then flows under Watling Street to the east of Fazeley and under an aqueduct[10] carrying the Coventry Canal. It continues northwards to Tamworth, which takes its name from the river, where it is joined by the River Anker immediately to the east of Lady Bridge beneath the strategically positioned Tamworth Castle. The river continues its generally northward route past Hopwas, Comberford and Elford until it arrives at the National Memorial Arboretum where it forms the boundary between this and the Croxall Lakes Nature Reserve. After this it flows under the railway at Wichnor Viaduct to its confluence with the Trent near Alrewas. The eventual outflow is into the North Sea, via the Humber Estuary.

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FTF: TheGloverFamily

STF:monkeyscrumpers

JOINT TTF:donald hyde and Harley D