Stoke or Stafford – SOS – a monthly series of events, each with a theme and designed to allow cachers to help each other. The events will be somewhere not too far from either Stoke or Stafford, or in between.
For June we are in Eccleshall, and hosted by Sharant (Sharon & Ant).
Caches in the area:
Come for the day if you like!
There’s one large series: Ticklebrick’s “Eee By Eck” a 'premium' series that has 25+ caches over 6 miles West of town, with an optional shortcut to reduce the distance between ‘New Style’ and ‘Bridge over troubled waters’ via our own multi ‘the Beast of Pershall’
Our own Eccleshall Ring is only 90 mins or so and is south of town, with some optional drive-by add-ons once you are finished.
There’s a multi-cache: the Eccleshall Tour takes you round in a loop around town, never far from one of the many pubs or cafés!
There is a wherigo that takes you around town. Download it to your compatible device ahead of time.
Timings:
At 6pm Sharant will arrive, we’ll be eating as a family and glad for everyone to come along and join us for a chat and so on.
Piratemania is the next Mega event, in Somerset in July. I encourage you all to practice your Pirate outfits and accents - please come along with eye patches and doubloons!
The following Mega is in Devon in August - come along to find out more about that, too.
The event will finish at 9 - but we can stay on! The pub will shut much later…
Our Venue:
The Kings Arms has been renovated since our last visit for SOS #2. It's an old coaching Inn – one of many in Eccleshall dating from the time of the turnpike roads between Chester and London, Shrewsbury & York. They’ve got a new, pretentious menu with weird combinations of foods. You can find the menu on their website here - and there's plenty of other places to eat in town too, come find us by 7pm if you go 'off the reservation'. The place had a good range of ales on cask and the usual spread of other drinks available.
For your information, mobile phone reception is Eccleshall is terrible, especially inside a 16th Century Coaching Inn.
Address: 17 Stafford Road, Eccleshall, Staffordshire ST21 6BL
Stoke or Stafford – SOS – a monthly series of events, each with a theme and designed to allow cachers to help each other. The events will be somewhere not too far from either Stoke or Stafford, or in between, and generally mid-week on different evenings to help ensure you can make some if not all of them. Need help? Other may do too – suggest a topic, propose a venue, or offer to be a host (hosts don’t have to know stuff – we have plenty of know-it-alls around here!)
| Month |
Where |
Topic |
host |
| July |
Likely at the Spread Eagle in Gailly |
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| August |
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This could be you! |
| September |
Likely Gentleshaw Common |
CITO Support Event |
Under discussion |
And chat on the Staffordshire Geocachers' Facebook Page