This cache is located in Doles Lane, which is a partially unmade narrow byway, that forms part of an ancient route from Wokingham to Reading.If you get your maps out you can you can clearly trace part of this route, from Luckley Lane (see Rocky Vs Henry cache) in the west, to Blagrove Lane to Doles Lane to Sandy Lane to Coombes Lane and then through the very muddy Coombes itself which takes you to Aborfield. Unbelievably,hundreds of years ago, this was the main route into Aborfield and Reading from Wokingham. Until John Walter III built the Bearwood Road right through his massive Bearwood Estate (Walter's Bearwood Mansion is now home to the rather nice school Bearwood College) in the mid 1900's. John Walter III's Grandfather, John Walter I, founded and edited the Times newspaper and the Walter family have been very generous to Wokingham and Sindlesham over the years.After the Bearwood Road was built Doles Lane, Sandy Lane and the Coombes became very quiet and are now manly used by walkers/ horseriders/ cyclists and the odd wheelchairist (I'm not saying i'm odd!!) Like Gipsy Lane, the Lanes are in places quite sunken into the ground, from hundreds of years of footfall. When you travel the whole route today, you get transported back in time to a very pleasant pastoral scene from the 18th century....i'm just an old romantic at heart!!
History lesson over, the cache is a small round 4-clip container covered in camo tape. I would recommend that cachers n dashers in their cars should park up close to the Lane, but not in it as the lane is very narrow and although the Lane is tarmac'ed at either end, the middle section is unmade and has some of the biggest potholes i've ever seen. It looks like the surface of the moon!! This cache is accessible in an all-terrain wheelchair.
FTF=and another FTF for Peeebeee
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