This is a fantastic woodland walk, linking up on a round circuit
with other nearby cache (once you have found the cache, keep
following the path down untill you reach the woodern steps up to
your right). Benthall Hall is a comfortable country house located
on the edge of Broseley surrounded by parkland and Benthall Woods.
At the cache location, you are rewarded with a great view over the
Irondridge (Buildwas) Power Station.
Established 1965, people have mixed feelings about this Power
Station site, they either hate it or like it. As you go down river,
think about the fact that this was an area of great industry and
power and does this station fit in? Aesthetically, the cooling
towers are constructed to blend into the Gorge and in a way fit in
with the use of the Gorge all those years ago almost looking a bit
like the old pottery and tile kilns. They also create an
interesting environment within the Gorge, because with the high
sides of woodland on either side of the river and the warmer waters
of the river along with the steam emanating from the towers and
circulating within the Gorge, it creates an almost tropical
atmosphere which allows some plants to grow in gardens that should
not actually be surviving in this area.