Ottery St Mary Pixie Ring - No 5 The Holly n Ivy 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!

One evening in July 1980, a disaster was narrowly averted when an aircraft on approach to Exeter Airport crash-landed just on the outskirts of the town, in a field immediately south of the Salston Hotel. The aircraft, an Alidair Vickers Viscount turboprop, flying 62 passengers from Santander to Exeter was eleven miles short of the runway over a wooded area on East Hill, just before the town, when it ran out of fuel and all four engines stopped.

The pilot, who knew the area, was able to bank left and glide over the town's southern edge and make a wheels-up crash-landing in a field. The aircraft was put down at 19.53 hrs, in daylight, near St Saviours' Bridge, in a small grassy valley studded with trees. The 27 year-old aircraft was written off in the crash. The only casualties were two sheep.

I thought this should be an easy fine albeit a bit prickly but it seems a lot of people are having trouble locating it so I have added an additional hint.