High point. Traditional Cache
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Cache site on top of Moel Hiraddug Dyserth, (only 0.26m walk from
suggested parking)through a nice wood along a public footpath, then
a fairly stiff climb up to cache.
So good shoes or walking boots would do the job.
Please keep to the well worn paths, or sheep trails!! Down hill
all the way back
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Quite a hike UP
Cache is set over looking the Vale of Clwyd and on towards
Garneddau and the Clwydian and Snowdon Mountain ranges.With views
along the N.Wales coast and down the valley.
So dont forget to take your camera
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Parking (see waypoint) is on a wide lane near a phonebox by a
juntion. The road going up is called Lower Foel road, a short
distance up there you will see the footpath sign to Cwm on you
right (turn right into the Gibbs woods).
Walk right through the woods and then find the paths on your left
going up to the cache. Do not go up where there is not a path, and
do take care with children please keep dogs on leads
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This path is part of the circular walk around Dyserth.There has
been mining and quarrying in Dyserth for centuries. Lead mining was
taking place even before the Roman occupation, and quarrying goes
as far back as the 13th century at least, when some of the stone
would have been used to build the castle.There were at one time
several small quarries along the foot of Moel Hiraddug; the stone
from one of them, the Jubilee Quarry, was used to surface the road,
Ffordd Glai, which was as its name suggests, a muddy track. It is
now Ffordd Ffynnon, Dyserth provided the stone.
The main quarry, which remained operative until the early 1980s.
This quarry supplied limestone to Mostyn Ironworks, and lime in
various forms was of more than local importance. The London and
North Western Railway opened a mineral line from the main
Chester-Holyhead line to Dyserth.
Congratulation's to
dawpooldaisy our new local
cachers who was the 1st to find this Geocache on 18/8/07.
Nearby cache -Cwm Village Vexation GC 17PR4
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Frr fcbvyre vs lbh arrq gb !!