Au Revoir Redditch 4 Traditional Cache
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This one takes you off the main pathway. It's still a proper route but is grassed rather than pavement - so take care to ensure you go the right way and follow the compass. It's quite overgrown in places and is suitable for supervised kids, but not for pushchairs or wheelchairs. It's probably not really bike friendly. You can miss this one out and go around the main pathway to get the last one if you prefer.
You're looking for a larger plastic clip lock box with room for lots of swappables.
We will be leaving the West Midlands for a more Southerly part of the UK soon. Whilst we will be back to visit family and friends, we may not live here again for some time. We have loved Redditch in particular and wanted to plant a series along a route we’ve walked many times as a family.
We’ve been visiting Arrow Valley Park since the mini-purple was 2 years old. We’ve stood around the play area for hours on end, suffered tantrums and tears as he learned to ride his bike in the park and had many an ice cream and coffee in the countryside centre café.
As mini-purple got older, we walked further and in more recent times we walked all the way from our home not far from the Alexandra Hospital to Arrow Valley Park, many times. Many people have no idea how many gorgeous footpaths and cycle routes there are around this ‘new’ town. It’s a haven of wildlife and we’ve loved living here.
This series of caches incorporates just part of the walk from our old house – it begins about half way along in fact. We think this is the best part of the walk and we’ve made it circular so you can park the car and go around, returning to the car at the end. We hope you enjoy it as much as we have.
You can also combine the series with a much wider walk from almost any part of Redditch – depends how energetic you’re feeling.
There are a few other caches in the park and slightly wider afield, which you could grab at the same time. We remember well our first cache find in this vry park – we’d read about Geocaching and had absolutely no clue what we were looking for; the amazement at finding a box of ‘treasure’ hidden in a place we’d walked past many times was the hook we needed!
Most of the route is flat and proper pathways, accessible by foot, bike and with pushchairs/wheelchairs, although the caches are just off the main pathways on the whole. There is one section, near the end which is a more narrow, grassy section. This can be overgrown in the summer and soggy in the wet months (so almost any time!). I would say this part of the route is not so accessible to wheelchairs/pushchairs and possibly not bikes either. Suitable footwear needed in those too.
This is the 4th and final in this little series.
Parking is available at the start point – location noted on Au Revoir Redditch 1. There is also parking at various other parts of the route. There is a car park quite close to this one if you're driving around - location below.
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