Beyond Stanmer Traditional Cache
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This traditional cache is located around 1 mile N of Stanmer village, near Brighton.
It is recommended that you use the Stanmer Church Car Park (N 50° 52.235 W 000° 06.083) and perhaps take a few minutes to look around the church. The present building dates from 1838 but was built on the site of a much earlier church. The churchyard contains many graves of the Pelham family who owned the 5,000 acre Stanmer estate from 1713, including several of the Earls of Chichester. Right by the car park entrance is a small well house, which contains a very old donkey treadmill
The cache is located about 1 mile north of here, and you should set off up Stanmer village main street and continue out into the farm land on the bridlepath. Continue in a northerly direction until you reach a crossroads near a power pylon and waypost No.6 (N 50° 52.866 W 000° 06.062) where you turn left. Follow this bridlepath through the wood straight to the cache location.
The GPS signal may get a bit unreliable under the trees, so start looking on the right of the path around 29 paces NW of waypost No.29. The cache is a 2 litre plastic food box, wrapped in a plastic bag for extra weather protection. It contains a logbook for your comments and, as usual, a selection of goodies for swapping.
After tucking the cache away again safely, you can either retrace your steps directly back to Stanmer village or, alternatively, use these instructions for a very pleasant circular walk of around 2 miles back to the village:
- Carry on past the cache location on the bridlepath in a NW direction.
- When you reach a crossing path at waypost No.30, keep straight ahead on the bridlepath.
- On reaching waypost No.31 (N 50° 53.290 W 000° 06.918) bear left onto a footpath, now heading S.
- Continue through the wood and through the gate into a field where you will shortly pass a dewpond on your left.
- Carry on through the field, roughly parallel to the road on your right, to the far end. As you walk along the field, subject to visibility, you may be able to see Shoreham Power Station Chimney to the SW, the Chattri Memorial and Devil’s Dyke to the W, the stands of Brighton Race Course to the S, the new football stadium at Falmer to the SE and Mount Caburn and Firle Beacon to the E.
- Go through the gate into another wood and continue S on the footpath until you reach a crossing metalled lane at waypost No.28 (N 50° 52.410 W 000° 07.068).
- Turn left onto the metalled lane and follow it downhill all the way back to downtown Stanmer, where you will find the tea rooms, toilets and even a working forge.
If you reach this point - congratulations! You will have completed one of our favourite circular walks of just over 3 miles, and we hope you have enjoyed it.
Additional Hints
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