Little Bridges #162 Oldbury Brook Traditional Geocache
Little Bridges #162 Oldbury Brook
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Located at the end of Chapman's Platt, what looks like a duck pond is in fact part of the Stroudwater Canal.
Large parking area available by Pike Bridge, there are pic-nic benches too.
You are looking for a film pot in a green camo bag.
This cache was placed on Stan's birthday! Happy Birthday!
The Stroudwater Navigation was constructed between 1775 and 1779. The canal linked Framilode, on the River Severn, with Wallbridge in Stroud. The canal was officially abandoned in 1954 by Act of Parliament. Work started on the Thames & Severn Canal in 1783 with the opening in 1789. This canal was abandoned in two phases; between the River Thames and to just above Whitehall Bridge (including Sapperton Tunnel) in 1927; and then from Whitehall Bridge to Wallbridge, Stroud in 1933.
If you carry on a little further (cross the footbridge) you will be able to find Team Eastington Rugby #4 cache and see Westfield bridge and the infilled location of Westfield lock, on the route of the canal as it heads towards Saul Junction.
The Little Bridges series was started by Stanthews in 2009 to highlight small footbridges in remote parts of Wiltshire. Since then the series has been expanded by others all over the country and starting to spread fast, Damian from Winter Foxes has created and updates a list of cachers who has found 10 or more little bridges and can be found here, if you would like to add to the series, please contact Stan here and he will give you a number for your bridge, to qualify, the bridge must be a foot bridge too small for vehicles, please make sure your title exactly matches “Little Bridges # xx then name” including spaces so it will get picked up and added to Damian’s list.
Congratulations on your FTF Seherazade!!!
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