Little Bridges #196 Days Mill Race Multi-cache
Little Bridges #196 Days Mill Race
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You are looking for a bison tube container.
The cache can be found at: N51º(A+F)C.(D-C)AB W002ºCB.C(E/2)(A+C)
In ancient times Nailsworth was a settlement at the confluence of the Avening Valley and the Woodchester Valley, on the Nailsworth Stream; among many notable historic buildings of medieval times in the area notable are Beverston Castle and Owlpen Manor.
A great starting point for walks in the Cotswolds.
Day's Mill, also called Nailsworth Mill, in the town by the old cattle-market, was apparently built or rebuilt by Jeremiah Day c. 1800.
It was owned in 1838 by Daniel Day's trustee and worked as a cloth-mill by Edward Wise. John Wise occupied it in 1856 and it was worked with Holcombe Mill in 1870. It later became a flock and shoddy factory, worked in turn by George Heath & Co. and James Harris & Co., and in the 1890s it was a cornmill, worked with Millbottom Mill.
It was used as a silk-mill before the Second World War, but then remained empty until 1958 when an engineering firm took it over. Three small businesses were using the early-19th-century building in 1973.
The mill is still in use today, a variety of businesses have moved in to the buildings, keeping historical buildings very much alive.
Nailswortht was connected directly to the UK national rail network between 1867 and 1947 with a station that was the terminus of the Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway.
These days Nailsworth is sleepy and tranquil, visited in the summer by walkers, and holding a farmers' market every fourth Saturday in the month. Local events like the market and the Nailsworth Festival are announced by the town crier.
Over the past decade the small town centre has been reinvigorated and besides numerous restaurants and cafes now boasts a number of unusual and high-quality shops.
Nailsworth is twinned with the French village of Lèves and an exchange visit takes place every year alternating between Nailsworth and Lèves.
Near this cache are two gold letter boxes from the 2012 London Olympics, see if you can spot them!
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.
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