GC3R9QT Wokingham's Old Routes- Sandy Lane (Traditional Cache) in Southern England, United Kingdom created by leeroy71

This cache has been archived.

Leeroy71: I'm archiving all of my caches due to a change in circumstances, on-going problems with pain/ injury and following feedback from a fellow cacher.

Thanks to all of you who visited and enjoyed my caches and to those who didn't enjoy them, sorry but I tried my best. It's time to let somebody else have a go.

When able in the future, I still hope to get out and about finding the odd cache.

GC3R9QT ▼

A cache by leeroy71 Message this owner

Hidden : 7/26/2012

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is a part of a mini-series of caches that I shall be hiding, that takes you along some of Wokingham's oldest routes and lanes.

This cache is located in Sandy 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. I would recommend that cachers n dashers in their cars should park in the first part of Sandy Lane (the tarmac'ed bit) as the road turns from tarmac, to unmade byway, to footpath in a short distance. This cache is accessible in an all-terrain wheelchair.

You are looking for a camo'd tapered tube.

FTF=Well done Peeebeee another FTF

#14

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pnyyvat ahzore 671477 . Ybbx gubebhtuyl guebhtu gur 'vil jngresnyy'

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)