The Saltwell Walk Traditional Cache

The cache is a camouflaged plastic lunch box. Please hide well afterwards! This cache has been muggled twice and moved thrice. It's new location is N52° 28.850 W2° 06.294 as of 17/08/2007.

The main car park (N52 28.799 W2 05.904) is open from 8.30am to 4.00pm, but there is parking nearby in residential areas as well as the adjacent Saltwell Inn. (I don’t know how geocacher friendly they are). You can walk through the park to access the new series in park and others near by..

History of the reserve: Saltwells was designated as the first Local Nature Reserve in the West Midlands metropolitan county in 1981; now covering over 100 hectares, it forms one of the largest urban nature reserves in the country. Within Saltwells Wood is Doulton's Claypit. The Royal Doulton Company bought the site and extracted clay for 70 years until the 1930s. The claypit has since been reclaimed by nature and now supports unusual plants including hundreds of Common Spotted and Southern Marsh Orchids, as well as Common Lizards, Grass Snakes and Smooth Newts. It was, until 1966, the only local nesting site of Red-backed Shrike, now an extremely rare breeding bird in the UK. The pit is now a Site of Special Scientific Another geological SSSI has been designated within the reserve – Brewin’s Cutting, on the Dudley No.2 Canal.