Salisbury 11 Traditional Geocache
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This is a standard MICRO cache on a busy road. You will have to park up and follow a path which crosses a main junction and then runs along the main road to the cache site.
Please note: FOR MILESTONES TO BE OF USE, THEY ARE NEXT TO THE MAIN ROAD – PLEASE TAKE CARE OF CHILDREN AND PETS!
I suggest parking at the coordinates below and taking a short walk:-
N51 08.706, W001 59.293.
Round trip of around 15 minutes.
It was those master-road-builders, the Romans, who first defined the centre of Imperial Rome with the 'Golden Milestone' and placed milestones on their roads showing the distance to this datum so travellers could mark their progress. They are alternatively known as mile markers, mileposts, or mile posts (sometimes abbreviated MPs).
Later in the 16th century the advent of the Royal Mail with staging points focused attention on the roads again. The post riders had to make good time, specified clearly, and milestones came into their own again to measure progress.
Turnpike trusts erected many of the milestones that are still part of our roads today, and they were made in many shapes, forms and methods of construction. Placed during the times of the pedestrian, the carriage, and the bicycle, the milestone has a fascinating story to tell of how our roads came to be.
Because they were often locally produced and there was no standard design, milestones come in a fabulous range of types and designs, each route and region with its own character.
Many mileSTONES are not made of stone!
To see this milestone from the cache site, look towards Salisbury beyond the road sign! you can get close to it if you wait at the bus stop but I'd advise going to the stone as it would be distracting for passing motorists.
There is a pin in the cache for the FTF.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Oruvaq obygf ba evtug.