Tuesday 20th January 2009
We took advantage of the good but cold and frosty weather today to do some of the geocaches that had been put out for the emCachers mmeting tonight at Ticknall. We parked at the village hall and set off to find the first cache at Ticknall lock-up. the lock-up (known as the jug) was tocked into a small gap on the main street. It was a round building, about 8ft tall with a heavy wooden, studded door, no windows and a conical roof. It had been used to lock up drunks until early in the 20th century. The cache was found and signed and we set off along the main road towards Stanton's wood, a new area of woodland where the cache was located hidden in the roots of a beautiful old oak tree. We retraced our steps across the muddy waterlogged fields to the road to the footpath leading to the rear of the Calke estate where we were going to do the Calke-limeyards multicache.
We set off along the footpath looking for a tramway tunnel that used to transport lime from Ticknall to the Ashby canal. The tramway passed in a tunnel under the Calke estate. We couldn't find the tunnel but did find the Limeyards SSSI, which was a lovely area with a small waterfall and lots of ponds covered in ice. We walked further along the footpath but still no tunnel so we decided that the start co-ordinates for the cache wer wrong and decided to explore more of the estate along a footpath we had not found before.
We soon discovered we were close to Popping the Calke cache so diverted to find that. This put us on the right footpath and we came across the tunnel that we had looked for earlier - on the other side of the estate! We walked through the tunnel with just a penlight torch for light. It was about 150m long and quite creepy.
We took advantage of the good but cold and frosty weather today to do some of the geocaches that had been put out for the emCachers mmeting tonight at Ticknall. We parked at the village hall and set off to find the first cache at Ticknall lock-up. the lock-up (known as the jug) was tocked into a small gap on the main street. It was a round building, about 8ft tall with a heavy wooden, studded door, no windows and a conical roof. It had been used to lock up drunks until early in the 20th century. The cache was found and signed and we set off along the main road towards Stanton's wood, a new area of woodland where the cache was located hidden in the roots of a beautiful old oak tree. We retraced our steps across the muddy waterlogged fields to the road to the footpath leading to the rear of the Calke estate where we were going to do the Calke-limeyards multicache.
We set off along the footpath looking for a tramway tunnel that used to transport lime from Ticknall to the Ashby canal. The tramway passed in a tunnel under the Calke estate. We couldn't find the tunnel but did find the Limeyards SSSI, which was a lovely area with a small waterfall and lots of ponds covered in ice. We walked further along the footpath but still no tunnel so we decided that the start co-ordinates for the cache wer wrong and decided to explore more of the estate along a footpath we had not found before.
We soon discovered we were close to Popping the Calke cache so diverted to find that. This put us on the right footpath and we came across the tunnel that we had looked for earlier - on the other side of the estate! We walked through the tunnel with just a penlight torch for light. It was about 150m long and quite creepy.
We found the rest of the clues in the SSSI and were able to calculate the co-ordinates for the cache which was found across a muddy field, hidden under a bridge. We retraced our steps through Ticknall and back to the car.
We returned to Ticknall in the evening for a meal at the Wheel and the emCachers meeting where there was lots of chat with some very dedicated cachers.
We returned to Ticknall in the evening for a meal at the Wheel and the emCachers meeting where there was lots of chat with some very dedicated cachers.
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Sounds like a great adventure!
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