Roundway Down has excellent views, the Devizes Millenium White
Horse and an Iron Age Fort "Oliver's castle". More information
about the White Horse is available on our fellow cacher Bill D's
excellent site called Wiltshire
White Horses.
The battle of Roundway Down was a major battle of the English
Civil War in 1643. Apart from the beautiful setting, the battle was
remarkable for being a major defeat for the Parliamentarians and
also also that Cromwell's cavalry were wiped out when they were
driven off the escarpment at Oliver's castle. This battle certainly
extended the war as this part of the Parliamentarians' army was
devastated. The battle is described in more detail at this
web site.
An Ordnance Survey map for the best parking location is shown at
this web site. Parking co-ordinates are: N51°22.922',
W01°59.694'.
First, go the main coordinates of this cache page and find the
date at the top of the information board. Read the date as
ABth(day) C(month) DEFG(year). Also find the number of guns which
the Royalists captured as H.
The physical cache is at N51°22.FHA', W01°59.EAB'.
The difficulty reflects the tree cover / GPS interference and
also that we hope it is well hidden. Therefore we've enclosed a
spoiler picture which you may like to print and take just in case.
It's in an ammo box.
This multi-cache was placed to replace the original regular
cache which went missing. Hence this is a multi which may be a
little more difficult to find....
The cache contains a couple of bags for rubbish, please help
with "Cache In, Trash Out" on your way back to your car.
Please check out the Geocaching
Association of Great Britain offering support for Geocachers in
GB.