Walk down path past Wolverton Manor to find this small bridge across a stream, cross bridge and turn left to reach the cache. It is out of sight of the house.
The cache is near Wolverton Manor the manor house of Shorwell. Wolverton Manor was the second house built on this site and is a typical Jacobean house in the shape of an 'E' when viewed from above. The original house was built on an island and the moat still exists. After the death of Sir John Dingley, his son-in-law, Sir John Hammond decided to improve the family home. He demolished the old house and built the present one. Hammond was one of the physicians to James I of England (6th of Scotland) and his nephew was Governor of Carisbrooke Castle. He handed Charles I over to the Parliamentarians, which led to the King's execution. The house is built of ferruginous sandstone quarried near Brighstone and green sandstone quarried at Quarr.
The Little Bridges series was started by Stanthews in 2009 to highlight small footbridges in remote parts of Wiltshire. Since then the series has been expanded by others all over the country and starting to spread fast, Damian from Winter Foxes has created and updates a list of cachers who has found 10 or more little bridges and can be found here, if you would like to add to the series, please contact Stan on stanthews@aol.com and he will give you a number for your bridge, to qualify, the bridge must be a foot bridge too small for vehicles, please make sure your title exactly matches “Little Bridges # xx then name” including spaces so it will get picked up and added to Damian’s list.
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