In July 2024, a new cycle path was created in North Somerset stretching between Clevedon and Weston-super-Mare. Known as the ‘Pier to Pier Way cycle path’, this will hopefully also be part of the solution to fill in the gaps in the English Coast Path between these towns which should be resolved within the next two to three years. The 13 mile cycle route utilises footpaths, quiet road routes and traffic free stretches.
This series of caches will eventually run between the two piers and will gradually be created during the latter part of 2024 and early 2025 with the aim of it being fully completed in time for the Severn Mega in 2025. It will follow the official Pier to Pier route but may on occasion, utilise other public footpaths where these are more convenient or provide a more scenic route.
Grateful thanks is given to Sustainable Travel together with the Open Spaces team at North Somerset Council for giving their permission to create this series of caches.
This is the eighth of the caches and is a traditional cache. An extraction tool would be helpfull here.
There is a particularly good view of Flat Holm Island from this location (if the weather is favourable!); Flat Holm acrtually is a Welsh island and is the most southerly part of the principality. The island has a long history of occupation, dating from the Bronze Age; religious uses include visits by disciples of St Cadoc in the 5th-6th century AD and in 1835, it was the site of the foundation of the Bristol Channel Mission, which later became the Mission to Seafarers. Marconi transmitted the first wireless signals over open sea from Flat Holm to Lavernock, Glamorgan. Because of frequent shipwrecks, a lighthouse was built on the island, which was replaced by a Trinity House lighthouse in 1737. (Many thanks Wikipedia)
The cycle / footpath here turns away from the coast here and moves inland.
As with all caching sites, when searching for caches please do not damage any wildlife or fauna; all caches have been placed to be found and within a couple of feet of the footpath.