Helmdon Bear Tracks Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/21/2006
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Rozey Bear and Pid's third cache hide. This one is placed in Northamptonshire.


This cache has been placed for you to follow the tracks of the 'Great Western Railway' on the Helmdon Viaduct in Helmdon, Northamptonshire.

Once upon a time Railways brought fleeting prosperity to Helmdon, lying as it did at the crossroads of the Great Central Railway and the Northampton and Banbury Junction Railway. The Great Central viaduct was built in the 1890s and dominates the skyline to the east to this day.

The last locomotives passed through in 1966 and the only users of the viaduct now are sheep, walkers and Cacher's!

The second smaller railway, which travelled underneath the Viaduct, was the Northampton to Banbury line. It's demise was inevitable with the growth of the motor car and it closed for passengers in July 1951, quickly followed by freight at the end of October in the same year. Today the old goods yard is a coach depot.

We planted this cache on Tuesday 21st February 2006, and when planted it contained:

A Tape   A Paper Holder   An S-Video Cable   A Rubber   2x Candles   and a Key Chain  
View from the cache        Entering the Viaduct        Picturesque View Of Viaduct


Please park somewhere close to the footpath sign and School at the following Co-Ordinates:
N52 05.283 W001 08.731.

We recommend using the footpath on the opposite side of the road to the school and following it round to the cache, although you can follow the sign to the Recycling centre by the Parking Co-Ords and go under the Arch and then get straight on top of the Viaduct.


We hope you enjoy finding this cache and would like thank Messe for the idea because if it was not for his fantastic Alpha Quest-Y cache on the same stretch of Railway we would never have known of this great location. We highly recomend doing Alpha Quest-Y if you have not already. Please Click either name to check it out.


Take a look at a Map of the Area here:

CLICK TO ENLARGE!

Happy Caching, All the best.

Rozey Bear and Pid (di Bear)

Rozey Bear and Ben Pid

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gel gur onfr bs gur boivbhf gerr. Evtug haqrearngu.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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