Whilst setting up a new series of caches in Budleigh, one of which was at the location of the AA sentry box at Knowle Corner, I was researching pictures and remembered that I had previously logged a cache in this location. Now archived. After a lot of trawling through my finds, I eventually found the cache, but its name bore no relationship to the actual sentry box. So I thought I would ressurect the cache as there are only a few of these boxes left in the country. An important part of motoring history. Woodbury 238 refers to the original telephone number as per AA records.
Parking in the layby and can be easily done as a cache and dash but please be aware that this is a busy road with a 50 speed limit. Dont try and U turn out of the layby. There are turning points in both directions within a couple of hundred yards. Container is a cliplock box with space for small TBs.
Here is a list of the remaining boxes, care of the detail from another cache elsewhere in the country.
Box 753 – B974, the Cairn o’ Mount road south of Banchory, Glen Dye.
Box 746 – Looking south towards Grantown-on-Spey. At the junction of the A939 and A940 at Dava.
Box 723 – A708 Cappercleuch St Marys Loch.
Box 714 – A96 Aberdeen to Inverness road at Threapland near Lhanbryde.
Box 573 – Garrowby Hill.
Box 530 – A149 near Brancaster.
Box 504 – Sutherland on the old A9 between Tain and Ardgay.
Box 487 – A591 North of Grasmere, Lakes, Cumbria LA22 9RS.
Box 472 – Cambus O’May, A93, Aberdeenshire AB35 5SE.
Box 456 – A3052 towards the junction with the B3180 road.
Box 442 – A684 south, just over a mile east of the turn to Aysgarth Falls.
Box 372 – A556/A50, Mere.
Box 189 – Bakewell, Derbyshire.
Box 175 – Glasgow’s Museum of Transport.
Box 161 – Junction of A479 with A40.
Box 44 – Amberley Working Museum.
Box 45 – National Phone Museum, Avoncroft.
Box 162 – NPM, Avoncroft.
Box 645 – Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
Box 535 - Beamish North East Open Air Museum
And a complete list of all boxes can be found on the AA website at https://www.theaa.com/resources/Documents/pdf/aa-roadside-telephone-boxes-to-1962.pdf
Previous cache by Winburg19 https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC30VWK_not-quite-the-tardis
And whilst I was discussing the cache with a work colleague, Snell's Pace, he rembered that there was a now archived cache that pre-dated the one above by Stuey, which was a multi, with the start point here. https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCJB4Y