The cache is a short walk from the
top of Dunstable Downs
There is plenty of parking at the
Downs (N 51 52.070 W 000 31.231), to get to the footpath that will
take you towards the cache you will need to cross the main road
which can be quite busy so take care.
At NO point do
you have to cross any fences
or enter any of
the quarry property!!!
The now replaced cache lies close to
the northwest corner of Kensworth Quarry which is run by Rugby
Cement.
The quarry was established in the 1960's and despite being the
largest chalk quarry in the country is not obvious even from a few
metres outside its boundary.
The output from the quarry is 800 tonnes per hour, some two million
tonnes a year, the site has at least 30 years of reserves.
Even more impressive is the fact that none of the chalk leaves by
road, the chalk is tipped into the Great White Hole where a series
of grinders,crushers and screens turn it into a slurry of 70%
solids, it is then pumped at a pressure of 2000psi down a 57 mile
long, 10 inch diameter pipeline to the cement works at Rugby.
The process requires about 1500 tonnes of water per day, all of
this water comes from the final effluent water at the nearby
Houghton Regis sewage works.
The cache is a round container
that's been lets say.... camouflaged, please just remove the lid
(you'll understand when you find it ), please don't leave any food
in the cache as there is wildlife around
and they'll find it.....without the aid of a GPS!
The cache is near a well used
footpath so take care not to be spotted retrieving it!