5. Haytor Bracken Traditional Geocache

To reach this cache, follow the path from #4 and bear left at the waypoint. Pass through a deep cutting in a bank and past the some masonry remains of Bagtor Mine on your right to GZ. Return to this waypoint once you have found the cache as there is no right of way beyond this cache. 

Buried under this bracken are many of the remains of the once sprawling and substantial Bagtor Tin Mine, which worked the Haytor Consols. A steam engine fired by local peat pumped and drove machinery. This was a major mine whose above-ground workings extend for a considerable distance (including a significant adit and shaft downhill that the CO once helped clear in the early 90s)

For details about this series, please see the first cache page - GC667CH (1. Haytor Bracken)

Permission kindly granted by Dartmoor National Park using their Geocaching Guidelines