We love Marl Lane it's our favourite place to wander when we're close to home. It stretches from Station Road in Fordingbridge to Rockbourne Road on the outskirts of Sandleheath. Along its route you can find all sorts of things such as an old WW2 bunker, an old raliway bridge, lots of lovely houses, a rather posh school, some beautiful woodland copses and loads and loads of lovely nature to wonder over. It's also an old lumpy and bumpy beast of a public bridleway it can be a dust bowl in summer and full of muddy puddles when it rains which makes it the perfect place for a geocaching stroll. Having said that the terrain isn't too bad, our little geocacher always enjoys the walk with us.
Parking options are provided in Marl Lane Meander #1 cache description.
This is a straight(ish) run of 8 geocaches from one end to the other, we've built in a a slight detour from Marl Lane to avoid a cache that's already in place but to ensure there are lot's to find on the walk. At the Rockbourne end you can take a short stroll into Sandleheath and find some more caches or do an about turn and head back the way you came.
Please NOTE sadly the Bonus cache has been archived so collecting numbers from relevant caches is no longer necessary
Don't forget to pick up the couple of caches that are not part of the series but are on the route.
If you choose the there and back approach it's a journey of just under 3 miles and should take around 1.5 hrs to complete, with little legs in tow.
Number Two
Well wander up the steepest slope you'll find on this walk (it's not too severe) and you'll soon arrive at cache number 2 of this series. Say hello to the friendly sheep and little ponies while you search for this one. You're looking for a nano sized log holder. Again remeber our suggested log removal technique or bring a suitable implement for extraction and don't forget a pen to fill in the log.
CONGRATULATIONS TO SALMON AND TROUT ON THE FTF