New Year, new caches! 
This cache is placed on the footbridge from Doctors Meadows to the fields beyond, I spent some time wishing I had brought magnets with me before spotting the obvious place to hide the cache!
This is a 4.3 mile walk with 21 caches around the lovely Ruton XI Towns, an odd name that I just HAD to come and explore! The caches are mostly small tupperware boxes that I was gifted, with the odd micro and one nano.
There is ample parking at Doctors Meadows, it just feels a little odd driving through the housing estate to get to it. The locals are very friendly. A terrain rating of 3 is given for the length of the walk, except for caches where there are additional hazards.
The walk is fairly flat on well defined paths, there is one diversion from the established footpath which I have circled on the attached picture of the route. You need to go through a gate, up the centre of the paddocks and then back onto the footpath.
You'll take in Doctors Meadow, the old quarry, an old toll house, Platt bridge, downt to the Arboretum and accross the fields to the Cliffe viewpoint, which offers the finest view in Shropshire (apparently, it was misty and raining when I visited!). Back down into the town past Big Walls and to the Chruch and remains of the castle.
The Little Bridges series was started by Stanthews in 2009 to highlight small footbridges in remote parts of Wiltshire. Since then, the series has been expanded by others all over the country and starting to spread fast. There is a stats listing, so you can see how many Little Bridges you have found, you can find it here: - Little Bridges Geocaching Series (littlebridgesseries.co.uk). If you would like to add to the series, please go to this site, on the tab Get Involved click number request and fill in the form. To qualify, the bridge must be a foot bridge too small for vehicles, please make sure your title exactly matches “Little Bridges # xxxx then the name” including spaces so it will get picked up and added to stats list.
