Millennium at Last..ingham
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This cache is part of a series of 4, carefully placed on a circular walk that The Wallies have done many times and hold dear. It is fitting therefore that these have all been placed on the same day, are our first caches, and are one for each Wally member.
Of course the caches can be done individually, but why not enjoy a 2 hour stroll and pick up all 4 en route!
This cache is located at the Lastingham side of the walk, and should you not wish to do the circular route would be best approached from Lastingham Village.
Suggested parking co-ordinates:- N54° 18.252' / W000° 52.939'
When placed, this cache contained:-
Big Wally’s Cache – lion puzzle, shell, bouncy ball, bells badge, fresh wipe, grenade squirter, dog fridge magnet & a free cup of coffee!
Background to the walk -
Lastingham is a quiet and pretty village, with a fab local pub! The Blacksmith’s Arms has guest beers to try and on a good day you can enjoy a pint sitting outside, overlooking the historic church. The church stands on the site of the seventh century Celtic monastery. It has undergone a number of radical changes, nine altogether. The existing building dates from 1078, and is famous for its unique apsidical Norman crypt. You are able to go in and take a look.
Hutton-Le-Hole is reckoned by many to be one of the prettiest of North Yorkshire’s villages. Here you will find many tea rooms & gift/craft shops, and there is also a folk museum. The village pub is good. The car park has public toilets.
4 ½ Mile Circular Walk – Lastingham to Hutton-Le-Hole
1. Begin by the Green and follow signs to Cropton, Pickering and Rosedale, past the red telephone box. Where the road swings left, go right to wind over a small bridge and beside a stream. Ascend to a footpath sign, and go right, uphill, through a gate and through woodland to a handgate on to a road. Turn right, signed ‘Spaunton’.
2. Follow the road through Spaunton, and bend right at the end of the village, then turn left by the public footpath sign over the cattle grid into the farmyard. The waymarked track curves through the farm to reach another footpath sign, where the track bends left. At a barn the track bends left again.
3. After about 200 yards, follow a public footpath sign right and walk on to another sign as the track bends left. After 100 yards take a footpath to the right, down the hill into woodland. Where the path divides, take the left fork down to a stile on your right, going off the track and down a step grassy path into the valley. Descend beside a stream to a stile by a gate, which takes you on to the road in Hutton-Le-Hole.
4. Turn right up the main street. Turn right at a yellow waymark by the Beckside Gift Shop. Go through a gate beside the Barn Hotel car park entrance and ahead through the garden and to the right of the sheds to a stile. Go ahead over three stiles to a kissing gate before a footbridge. Follow the path through woodland to a gate and follow the grassy track to the road.
5. Turn right and follow the road for ½ mile and turn left at a footpath sign just before the road descends to a stone bridge. Follow the grassy path, going over a stile, to a footpath sign just before a farm.
6. Follow the direction indicated by the signpost to the left, bending alongside the wall beside a clump of trees and descending into a valley. Cross over the stream to a stile and a kissing gate. Continue walking with the wall on your right-hand side to another kissing gate and stile, which will lead you to a carved stone with a cross and a three pointed sign.
7. Take none of the directions indicated by the sign, but turn right, downhill through a gate and on to the metalled road. Follow the road downhill back into the village of Lastingham.
** Please note - if starting at Lastingham and doing the circular walk the caches will come in the following order -
Animal Magic (GC1PQYD), Is it Ruined? (GC1PQZ4), Holey-Le-Moley! (GC1PQZH), Millennium at Last..ingham (GC1PQZZ)
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
abg VA gur jnyy