Pigfumblers Bimble - Trail of the lonesome one Traditional Geocache

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pigfumbler: Time for this series to go to bed and let someone else have a go. I'll leave the container out for a couple of weeks just in case somebody has it saved as a PQ.
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Pigfumbler

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Hidden : 8/26/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Welcome to Pigfumblers Bimble.
( Bimble - To amble without real aim, yet in a friendly and harmless manner. It's not required to acheive nothing, though it is a frequent side effect.)

This is one of my favourite walks on Leith hill. Some are on National Trust land and some are on public land and some on the Wotton estate footpaths. This Leith Hill area comprises woodland, parkland, farmland and heathland, with an 18th century Gothic tower. Visit in late spring for a good showing of bluebells and rhododendrons in the rhododendron gardens, which were apparently planted by Charles Darwin’s sister, Caroline.

Leith Hill is within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and is home to an abundant wildlife. It’s also designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).

Wildlife in the area includes Bats, Tawny Owls, Dormice, Badgers Nightjars, Redwings, Song Thrush, Cuckoos, Buzzards and Red Kites.

There are many sunken lanes in the Leith Hill area. A sunken lane has formed gradually over hundreds of years, creating a deep trough through which the lane runs.
These sunken lanes have very delicate banks, which are held together with the roots of the trees that line them.

The area is steeped in history from the Mesolithic and Neolithic through to the present day. I have included historical notes on the individual caches. If you wish to see some of the finds, the Guildford and Dorking museums hold some of them.
 
The caches are a varied mixture of sizes from Nano to Tupperware type, some are easy to find, some are hard and some are just downright mean. I have used some heavily camouflaged natural cache containers, Tupperware style boxes as well as our old friend the 35mm. A couple you may have to stretch for. A couple you may have to grovel on the floor for. Bring a pen and maybe some tweezers or similar to extract Nano logs.

As always an OS map of the area is useful.

Due to the valleys and trees the gps can be a little erratic so I have checked the co-ords with http://boulter.com/gps/   and tried to provide as many clues.

Please rehide caches well as it is a high muggle area.

Before embarking on the bimble, it may be useful to look at cache titles and descriptions for song titles and lyrics. However not all cache titles are clues – some just refer to location and some are just red herrings. I ask forgiveness for the bad jokes and puns included in the descriptions.
 
Is there a bonus cache I hear you cry? Yes, yes there is. Just for you. As there are a number of larger Tupperware containers on route the bonus is a nano but you will have to work to find it. If you have trouble with the bonus and need additional clues contact me via my profile page.

Car parking can be found at Broadmoor and Friday street car parks.
I have included images in the listing pages to help a little but the spoiler images really are spoiler images

Disclaimer
As usual Geocaching on National Trust land and other areas is at your own risk. The value of your house is may go up as well as down and your home is at risk if you do not keep up your mortgage repayments. Your home is also at risk if you set fire to it.


Another fine mess! Find the twin trunked one then see the lonesome one thats not as lonesome as all that.

More facts about holly

Birdlime is made from holly bark. It is the practice of coating a roosting branch or twig with the rendered sticky holly bark and waiting for the birds to land and get stuck. This practice has, thankfully, gone the same way as cock fighting and badger baiting.

Sticky bombs in World War II got their stickiness from bird lime

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

fgvpx b syntr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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