Into the unknown

We'd had such a good morning of box hunting that when we returned home we decided to do some more.

Dr Cath had printed out the necessaries for a group of 12 caches along the A491 "Bromsgrove Feeder Road", so we decided to give these a try. We knew that it would mean driving to pretty much each location in turn rather than doing them all as a loop, so off we went.

Gallows Brook - GC1N4QP

We parked in the lay-by on Park Road for this, and walked through the car park and overspill car park of the Lyttleton Arms public house. The public footpath proper starts at a metal kissing gate, and in the first field some way off were a group of horses. One of them started walking towards us, stopped as soon as he realised we were walking away from them, and turned round and wandered off... before roughly mounting a lady-horse! Filthy.

At the edge of the field, the footpath continued through a metal gate. The walking stick came in handy again because nettles had grown across the catch holding the gate shut.

The path on the other side of the gate was indistinct and very overgrown with nettles - not nice. After leaping over a trickle of a stream we soon found the tree containing the cache, and after moving a piece of loose wood found the cache hidden in the trunk. Whoever was 8th to find the cache (and everyone since!) had left the congratulatory token in the cache, so we collected it for prosperity.

Heaven knows exactly where the footpath went after this point - there was no distinct path - but it mattered not as we retraced our steps back to the car.