Run to the Hills Traditional Cache
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Great Hill, on Anglezarke Moor - classic walk. Good clear paths throughout - lots of joggers up here, especially in the evenings. If it's your first visit, the recommended route has plenty to see on the way. After an initial steep start, it levels out a bit, then a bit more of a rise to a peak that's slightly higher than Rivington Pike but an easier walk imo.
Park at White Coppice cricket ground, and cross The Goit (the stream) then turn left, up the path past the dam on your right. Then turn right and keep going till you are at the top - it's across well defined paths, you might think you are veering too far left at one point, but the path curves back on track. You'll pass several farm ruins including Drinkwaters which was used for target practice in the war - now it's a nice spot for a brew and a butty, and all the evidence points towards the spring water being drinkable. There's a cup left in memory of Joe, which you'll see - he was a keen fell runner in the area (thanks for the info Vido!). There's a £20 note hidden round here behind a rock, too, that a bloke put there on a whim - he apparently checks if it's still there whenever he walks up here - I'll not say where it is, in case there are any muggles reading! Just before Drinkwaters is a fenced off bit of woodland - it's more exposed mines, possibly lead again, but maybe tin.
Crack on, with nice views of Round Loaf on your right, and then Rivvy Pike. You can see the big channels cut into the moors, presumably to take water away to feed the brook that pours into The Goit.
Once you've got the cache, walk the couple of hundred yards to the top for a deserved rest and view. The cairn has been replaced by a four-way dry-stone-wall bench that offers great shelter from the wind. From here you can go along Redmonds and Spitlers Edge if you like, which is an odd and interesting walk in itself.
I've placed all the caches I originally intended to now, I hope this one is fun! After Springwatch, I promised Citizen Smith I'd make my next one a normal one instead of a puzzler, so here it is!
Cache container is an ammo box.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Haqre pbyyncfrq ebpxf, abg va gur jnyy.
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