The Lost River Fleet 12> St. Pancras Way Traditional Geocache

A series of 22 caches, designed as a downhill walk of just over 8km. It traces the route of the River Fleet, one of the Lost Rivers of London now almost completely built over, but its path is still fascinatingly visible. Starting at the source in front of Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath the route passes through Hampstead, Kentish Town, Camden, St. Pancras, Kings Cross, Clerkenwell and Farringdon to where it can still be seen flowing into the River Thames at Blackfriars.

This Cache: Here the River Fleet once meandered down open fields along the route of what is now St. Pancras Way. The large red brick building opposite (covered in scaffolding) and those that lie behind it are built on its path. If you compare old maps of London with a Google Earth satellite image, you can see that these buildings have been shaped to the course of the old river. Nothing remains to be seen today. The river is truly lost here.

Drain-cover-Sound!--Prev. cache

The Lost River Fleet Series

Next cache--St Pancras Old Church

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Bonus Caches: Some, but not all of the caches contain bonus numbers. There are twelve to collect in total, usually on a small sticker inside the cache container. These will enable you to decode the final coordinates of the Bonus Cache, proving that you have walked the complete route to claim the series.

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Walking Notes [N to S]: Straightforward, continue downstream to cache <13>, following the gradient towards St. Pancras.You will be walking the path of the river.