Carbis Valley Cache Traditional Cache
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Just a short walk above Carbis Bay beach, follow the road up under the viaduct to reach Carbis Valley, a pretty area of woodland that is a quiet escape from the beach. This cache is an ideal straightforward find for families with prizes/swaps for that proper treasure-hunt feel for the children. You are looking for a small tupperware box.
Carbis Bay inherited its name when the Great Western Railway opened its St. Erth - St. Ives branch line in 1887. The valley was known as Carbis Valley and Carbis Water was further up at the main road, so the railway decided upon the name Carbis Bay for their station. The Cornish Telegraph of 19th September 1878 noted that the Great Western Railway had coined the name Carbis Bay for their station in Carbis Valley, and stated that the name was henceforward to apply to the whole valley.
Carbis means "cart bridge" and there was a stone bridge over the stream at Carbis Bay in olden days. Legend has it that when plague was raging in St. Ives in 1640 the country folk brought food for St. Ives, leaving it on or under the bridge, and the money to pay was left in the water - to be purified.
There are three wrecks on Carbis Bay Beach which you can see at low tide the wreck in the centre of the beach is the "Cintra" a collier of about 400 tons. The other two are at the far end of the beach, Lelant side, they are the "Vulture" 350 tons and the "Bessie", nearly 300 tons. The boilers of the "Vulture" were an adventure playground for children until they went for scrap in World War Two. The gale that claimed these three boats was in November 1893, the Bessie was first, fifteen minutes later the Vulture was dashed ashore on the beach. Half an hour after the Bessie was wrecked the Cintra, too, was aground. The Cintra's anchor was recovered in 1959.
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