A Lickey end

A lovely Thursday afternoon and evening of box hunting - this time around the Lickey Hills near Bromsgrove.

BrumWorc Panorama - GCP356

We'd bumped into RuberyBlue whilst doing the Hagley Loop a few weeks ago, so we thought it was only right and proper to do a couple of his hides today, starting with this one - a puzzle-type multi.

Parking was easily found on the frankly huge car park mentioned in the cache description, and we were soon in the "castle" on Beacon Hill waiting for the muggles to shift so we could peruse the toposcope and solve the first part of the puzzle. The first thing I learned today was that Beacon Hill was given to the people of Birmingham by the Cadbury brothers - which was very kind of them, even though they'd probably have been happy with a couple of blocks of Dairy Milk each instead.

Toposcope perused, and we soon were examining a plate mounted on a trig point. With the cache coordinates in hand, of we pootled.

We soon found ground zero, and I spotted an out-of-place stump in the middle of a tree - a stump that wasn't fixed to anything, and had a bolt-on wooden section on the bottom of it, which at least explained why the cache hint suggested we take a spanner! We were slightly surprised by the close-passing dog walker, until we realised that we'd passed through most of the wooded bit and were very close to a second path.

We took the Knights Templar Geocoin.