Wellow Woods Nature Trail #2 Multi-Cache

Quite interesting facts:

The wood sits on a steep scarp slope, which was no good for food production. It is thought that the origins of this ancient woodland go back to medieval times at least, for its boundary is marked in places by a deep ‘wood bank’. These were often constructed around deer parks to prevent the animals escaping. The boundary of the wood with Cocking Moor Lane shows this particularly well. Subsequently Wellow Park was managed by the Rufford estate for the production of timber and firewood. Nowadays the wood is home to wild red deer, as well as several Muntjac deer unfortunately, together with foxes and badgers. It is actually the largest ash-dominated wood in
Nottinghamshire, and is wholly owned by the Forestry Commission.

Walking directions:

Continue down the path into the wood with the open field to your left and the wood banking up to your right. It is around here that, when planting the caches I spotted a fox happily wondering around oblivious to my presence. I stopped in my tracks and watched for 2/3 minutes before she saw me and scurried off into the field. Your GPS should soon be picking up “Wellow nature trail #02”. This is the first Multi cache containing the co-ordinates for a close by additional cache where you can sign the log and exchange goodies. You might have to back track slightly due to me having to relocate the cache. Hopefully you have solved your first couple of clues now and are getting the idea so it’s time to make the hides a little more interesting.

Bonus Cache:

Solving the clue for the Bonus Cache (GC1XV29)
You will have found a Nature Trail Clue, _ _ _ _ Solve the clue, and use the 3rd letter to look up a number from the grid found and downloadable from the Bonus Cache (GC1XV29). When you have solved all the clues you will have the full co-ordinates for the bonus.