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Please NOTE sadly the Bonus cache has been archived so collecting numbers from relevant caches is no longer necessary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 Six
So we now head up the second slope of the route but again it's not too arduous. At the top there's a smattering of rather nice houes and this makes the next cache the most mugglesome so some stealth might be required. Don't get us wrong it's still low risk this ain't the suburbs. Log removal technique at the ready please (or bring a tool) and bring your own pen.
Don't forget to grab the additional info from the log tube if you're going for the bonus cache.
CONGRATULATIONS TO SALMON AND TROUT AND BADCATS ON THE FTF