Daer 01 – Telephone Exchange
None of this short series are difficult to locate. This is about the gradual approach to the Daer reservoir, and the reward when you get to the fifth cache, an incredible view.
This small building, bristling with wires and aerials is the local telephone exchange, one of around 5600 across the UK. You can imagine that it was full of cables, frames of connections and visited frequently when it was built, but now there will be a modern frame of wiring connections, and a small computer, and rare visits.
Presumably, the exchange serves all the local properties all the way up to the dam and beyond. It would have been particularly important to have good communication between the waterworks and the destinations of the water.
Daer Reservoir is a man-made waterbody created by the damming of the Daer Water, a tributary of the River Clyde in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It lies within the Lowther Hills in South Lanarkshire. A minor public road leaving the A702 follows the Daer Water south to the dam and then continues along the western margin of the reservoir as far as Kirkhope. The reservoir was officially opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1956 to supply water to the Scottish Central Belt.
The Southern Upland Way passes just to the north of the dam and affords views over the reservoir for the walker.
This cache is hiding outside the wire fenced compound. You will need a pen, maybe tweezers, so standard cache finding stuff.
Replace as found please.