U – Upham - Hampshire A – Z Traditional Geocache

This cache is one of a series of 26, the Hampshire A-Z, placed across the county by a team of 'Hampshire Cachers'. The caches vary in type, size and difficulty, and each location has a different initial letter...

'U' is for Upham.

Upham is a small  village and civil parish in Hampshire approximately 7 miles south-east of Winchester. 

The village has two centers. The original hamlet of Upham lies on the higher ground in the centre of the Parish (this is where the cache is). Now a conservation area, it contains the Church, the village recreation ground, the village pond and a pub.

Lower Upham lies about 2 kilometres to the south west on the main road from Winchester/Colden Common to Bishops Waltham. The Village shop with post office, the Village hall, and two more pubs are all in Lower Upham.

The Parish is crossed by an extensive network of footpaths including longer distance paths the Monarch’s Way, Pilgrims’ Trail and King’s Way. In the south of the parish King’s Way and the Pilgrims’ Trail partly use the course of the former Roman road from Winchester to Portchester, which passes between Upham and Lower Upham. From the footpaths around the upper part of the village there are panoramic views to the Isle of Wight, New Forest, Winchester and along the South Downs.

A traditional cache, but not your normal container

This cache was placed by jpmonkey1

Bonus Cache

Bonus numbers will be present in all of the caches in the series. You will need to collect these numbers should you wish to find the series bonus '* - Bonus Cache - Hampshire A-Z'

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