This is the bonus cache to my Fairburn Ings Adventure Lab series:
It's always been wet round these parts, enough to hamper kings (both Penda and William I were held up here). The land was drained in the 1600s, gaining rich farmland and access to deposits of alabaster, limestone, and in the 18th century, coal.
With industry came canals and railways. Subsidence from the deep mines, closed by the 1990s, allowed lakes to form. Higher ground was created by dumping colliery waste. The area began to attract birds and other wildlife. The Ings (Norse for marshes) became a nature reserve in 1957, thanks to the efforts of Bob Dickens, Doug Pickup and Charlie Winn, alongside many other volunteers. After being given the status of official bird sanctuary in 1967, the RSPB took over the site in 1976.
Fairburn Ings is open dawn to dusk, with a car park (£4/vehicle) or very limited (and very muddy) free parking available on the nearby (narrow/fast) roads. Check online for opening times for the visitor centre and other facilities (there's a cafe, shop and toilets).
To find the cache location you must complete the Adventure Lab series. Part of the co-ordinates for the bonus will be given for each stage completed. You're looking for a craft cache containing just a notebook, which leaves room for you to add more than simply a date and name.
Placed with kind permission of Fairburn Ings RSPB and Leeds City Council. Good luck
Congratluations to Fred the Red on their FTF.