This Geocache is just off a footpath above the main parkland walk. Access can be found up a slope either side of a bridge.
Additional info on the location:
Along the walk just before the disused platforms at Crouch End, a man-sized green spriggan sculpture by Marilyn Collins has been placed in one of the alcoves of the wall at the footbridge before the former Crouch Endstation.
According to a local urban legend, a ghostly 'goat-man' haunted the walk in the 1970s and 1980s. Local children playing out in the evenings would 'dare' each other to walk the Parkland Walk from the Crouch End Hill bridge to the Crouch Hill bridge in the darkness.[12] It has been suggested that the sculpture, and the Parkland Walk generally, provided the inspiration for Stephen King's short story "Crouch End".[13] However, as the story was first published in 1980 and the sculpture not erected until 1993, there can be no connection between the Spriggan and the story.[14] It is possible that the Walk may have inspired King, as he stayed with friend and Crouch End resident Peter Straub during the 1970s. It should be noted that no definite link between the Parkland Walk and the story has ever been proven.
