In winter months the paths can be a little muddy (especially between number 8,9 and then back to the road) and the brook can be quite deep and fast flowing in places. Whilst we placed the route with our child, we recommend you keep an eye on any geo-children. If you want to avoid the muddiest section you can double back from cache 8 and follow the cycle path back up to Wellow for a different route.
Tweezers may be useful to extract the logs in a few caches.
As well as the Wellow Wander you can also visit:
GC20DD6, Memories are made of this, located between Wellow Wander 7 and 8
GC43JG0, Norton Lane 5 – The Ford between Wellow Wander 9 and 10
GC5PPJQ – Church Micro 7517…Wellow a short walk to the East of the Fox and Badger
Parking
There is good sized car park in Wellow, waypoint 1 (see Wellow Wander #1 for waypoints).
Directions
After Wellow Wander 1 turn left under the bridge and follow the path down to the brook. NOTE: This footpath is closed Monday – Thursdays until the 31st March 2016 for sheep grazing. An alternative route is to go Wellow Wander number 10 then turn right after the pub to GC43JG0, Norton Lane 5 – The Ford. From here you can pick up the path that goes up alongside the house (waypoint 4) to follow Wellow Brook to Wellow Wander number 2.
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 on stanthews@aol.com 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.