Newbury GeoCache Series
After our recently placed GeoCache Series at Great Western Park, Didcot, we decide to place a few more caches in other parts of Didcot and surrounding villages, in order to honour local heros, and to reflect our rich local history, stories and heritage. We hope you will enjoy these new caches and may also learn something new when you are caching, thank you!
All our placed caches can be viewed at this public bookmark list: https://coord.info/BMFEC4E
Newbury #198 - Donnington Fish Pond Bridge (Officially Known as Little Bridges # 3352 - Donnington Fish Pond)
This is a long wooden bridge along the public footpath, next a golf course. It is also next to a beautiful fish pond with creeks. Please keep to the public footpath and do not stray to the golf course.
About this multi-cache:
At the published coordinates, you will be standing in front of this little bridge. On either one side of the bridge, how many long horizontal wooden boards are there, which have the same length and span over the entire bridge (excluding the top armrest/handrail board)? Let it be A.
On either one side of the bridge, how many vertical wooden posts are there? Let it be BC.
Finally, count the total number of wooden planks on the surface of this bridge, which generally have the same height. Let it be DEF.
The final coordinates are a short distance away at:
N51 ( A + B - D ) ( C - B ) . ( A + C ) ( F + B / D ) ( ( D + E ) / A )
W001 ( F / ( B + D ) ) ( D - E ) . ( C - B + A / D ) ( D + E - A - B ) ( A + B + C - D / E )
The checksum of all the digits in the final coordinates is 48.
Please also note:
The bridge can be very muddy and slippery after the rain, so please take care.
Please bring your own pen, and open & close the cache lid carefully so the cache and log book can survive longer.
Please also replace exactly as found due to obvious reason, and please be careful with the possible thorns and stinging nettles. Long sleeves, trousers, and gloves are recommended.
Thank you and enjoy GeoCaching!
FTF: Congratulations to parallel sticks for their FTF on 4 May 2026.
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.