Ottery St Mary Pixie Ring - No 2 Rare Cactus Traditional Cache

This is a 3 mile walk around the outskirts of Ottery St Mary, finishing in the centre by our historic church.

The route is predominantly on footpaths (which can be muddy during wet periods) and very quiet lanes. There is one crossing of a busy road so please be careful with children.

This is a series of 10 caches, which vary from easy to hard and one you may struggle to open!

Ottery St Mary's most famous son was Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was born in Ottery St Mary on the 21 October 1772 and died on the 25 July 1834. He was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote, among others, the poems The Rime of The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan.

A section from Kubla Khan

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan 

A stately pleasure-dome decree: 

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran 

Through caverns measureless to man 

Down to a sunless sea. 

So twice five miles of fertile ground 

With walls and towers were girdled round; 

And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, 

Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; 

And here were forests ancient as the hills, 

Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. 

This should be an easy quick find, please re-hide well.