Canal Series Soho Loop 6 - Winson Road Bridge Traditional Cache
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Canal Series Soho Loop 6 - Winson Road Bridge
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The cache is sneakily concealed about 4 metres from the path.
Part 6 of a 7 series cache around the Soho Loop of the canal. It is a circular route of no more than 2 miles long.
All caches can be accessed from the canal towpath, but small children and those with less mobility may need a little help with some of them.
The history bit:
The Soho Loop of the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Canal was cut in the 1770's followed by the Great Western Railway (now the Midland Metro) in the 1850's. These routes created an industrial corridor, but the Soho Manufactory was demolished in 1863 and replaced by terraced housing.
The Soho Loop forms part of the original Birmingham and Wolverhampton Canal constructed by James Brindley in 1768-1772.
The canal was straightened by Thomas Telford in the 1820's who joined the ends of the Soho Loop by cutting a channel between the eastern and western entrances.
The eastern entrance is at Rotton Park Junction. From there, the loop meanders in a northerly direction past the former site of the Soho Manufactory and under Spring Hill Bridge before curving westwards past Hockley Port and rounding the City Hospital.
It then doubles back in a south-westerly direction, past Lodge Road Cricket Ground and HMP Birmingham, and beneath Winson Green Road (A4040) and the West Coast Mainline, before rejoining the Birmingham & Wolverhampton Canal at Winson Green Junction.
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