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This cache is on one my favourite walks outside the City. It is a traditional cache and should be an easy find.
If you’re starting from the parking area, the walk takes you a little way along the River Browney (make sure you follow the path on the west bank). It can be slippery and muddy here if it’s wet, so boots are advised.
Once you’re past the cache, there is some interesting architecture to explore. I don’t have much info about all this – so please add anything in your log and I can update this page:
- A small stone structure in an area just behind the cache – I don’t know what this is.
- Carry on 50m or so downstream and there is a large stone structure down where the river bends. I think this is somehow connected to Relly Mill further downstream – perhaps the entrance to its leat, an artificial channel that fed the mill? You can see a channel/ditch going south towards the mill from here. Or it might be something else completely.
- Further down you will pass under Relly Mill Viaduct, built 1897.
- A little further on the other side is the site of Relly Mill itself. This dates from at least the 14th century and was originally a fulling mill connected to the Cathedral. In the 18th century it was converted to a paper mill, and finally abandoned in 1904.