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Sapperton Canal and Railway Walk
By: SangueG Date: November 18, 2012, 5:00 am
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16 Geocaches, 4 miles. Park at N 51° 43.764 W 002° 05.375 for
the walk.
The walk starts and finishes at the Daneway pub where there is
plenty of parking. Food is available. Dogs are welcome in the
beer garden.
The walk is not suitable for buggies. Also, a stretch of the
walk is alongside a canal which is deep in places, so take care
with any young children or animals accompanying you.
Geocaches on route:
At the time of writing this walk, there are 16 caches on route
set by 5 cache owners. 14 of them are traditional, 2 are multi.
One of the caches is an old one, set in 2003.
The walk route:
Set out in a westerly direction from the pub and follow the path
alongside the canal for approximately 3/4 of a mile. Cross the
canal at Whitehall Bridge where there is a cache you can use as
a waypoint, and then dogleg easterly and head uphill through the
woods. When you get to an obvious t-junction in the path head
west until you reach the road. There is another cache by an
unmapped railway tunnel airshaft which you can use as waypoint
to head towards, the road is a little further on from that.
Follow the road for about a 150m where you will enter the wood
again on the south side of the road. The path heads south
easterly through the woods. You will be walking along the route
of a railway tunnel, sometimes directly above it. You will pass
a couple more large brick airshafts, and you may get to hear a
whoosh of air from them if a train passes underneath. As well as
the airshafts, there is an old small abandoned building to look
out for. You will cross a minor road on route. Continue on to
where the railway tunnel opens up briefly, just before you get
to a main road. You can use cache Middleton Hill to mark this as
a waypoint.
Head north. You will now be on a byway. After about 600m you
will reach a road. Take the road north east, and then bare left
at the crossroads. You will be heading towards Sapperton Village
walking along a stretch of the disused Sapperton canal tunnel.
About 400m along this road take the minor road to the north, and
then take a right to head into the centre of the village. After
about 400m you will be at St Kenelms Church. Take the footpath
alongside the churchyard and head east, you can use the oldest
cache on this walk Zero Five as a waypoint, which will take you
back towards the canal, and towards the north portal of the
canal tunnel. Keeping on the path and heading east you will
arrive back at your start point at the Daneway pub.
I have made a bookmark list of the caches on this route
available HERE
HTML http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=a38501f7-a781-4435-9ca2-05135928932d
#Post#: 4111--------------------------------------------------
Re: Sapperton Canal and Railway Walk
By: SangueG Date: February 10, 2013, 1:11 am
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I have updated the bookmark list of caches for this walk, still
the same link in the main walk post. There has been a slight
change with one cache being archived, but another has taken it's
place very nearby.
It was great to see a few people had walked the triangle
yesterday.
#Post#: 6907--------------------------------------------------
Re: Sapperton Canal and Railway Walk
By: SangueG Date: February 2, 2014, 8:08 am
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I have updated the bookmark list of caches for this walk again.
The link to the bookmark list can be found still in the first
post. One cache has been archived, so there are currently 15
caches on this walk.
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Re: Sapperton Canal and Railway Walk
By: SangueG Date: September 7, 2014, 4:42 pm
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How does the saying go about curiosity? And did the cat meet
it’s demise by drowning? Probably. But hey..
Found and investigated some newly found rock crevices in the
general vicinity of the canal part of this walk recently.
Including popping my head a little way into the Daneway portal
of the Sapperton Canal Tunnel, which is located very close to
the 'Zero Five' cache.. It’s a lot less muddy than Hippos to
enter :D
Other more important thing I wanted to note in this post was
that the Daneway pub does seem to not be as open as it used to
be. It does open, but do not go there expecting it to be open
during the day. Visit on Saturday just past I found that they
were not opening until 6.30pm.
All caches in the bookmark list are still active.
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Re: Sapperton Canal and Railway Walk
By: walktall Date: September 7, 2014, 6:48 pm
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Sounds interesting :)
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