Gressingham/Hornby - 25 March 2011

Attempting to find at least one cache per week, we stopped in Gressingham and Hornby on the way home from work to get a couple of simple find.

The first was Deborah's cache, a find on a little island by the beck, reached by a little bridge. A lovely, peaceful little site, and a perfect place to leave the memorial Lest We Forget geocoin we picked up in Todmorden last weekend.

Then a short drive to Castle Stede, just outside Horby. Parked before the bridge on the Gressingham side, and then a short walk to the cache site, which is an old World War Pill box. The cache isn't inside this, but nearby, but it took us some while to find the cache, which was well hidden - recommend poking with a stick. Again, we thought this would be an ideal place to drop off The Thing on a Sting travelbug, which wants to visit castles and spooky places - Castle Stede ticks at least one of those boxes.

With a fairly busy weekend planned, this at least satisfies our attempts to log one cache a week, and it was great to be out and about in the sun after work for a change - been a long while coming!

Todmorden - 19 March 2011

We had planned a weekend away geocaching, staying in the Rambles B&B near Hebden Bridge.

On the way, we stopped to complete a loop round Todmorden, a mixture of caches along the canal, on public footpaths and some along the road. I've never been to Todmorden, and it's a lovely old mill town, full of nice stone buildings. It was one of the first sustainable towns in the UK, and instead of flowerbeds, seems to have mini allotments dotted over the place. I approve!

Anyway, none of the caches were particularly remarkable, we completed several on the Todmorden section of the LEGEND series, to make a small dent in the 600 or so in the series. Our favourite of the day was the Stoodley Pikes Mini Me cache, which although a magnetic nano was a brilliant little piece of public art that many people will walk past without even noticing, but geocaching made us have a proper look at.

Trackables found...

Found three trackables on our trip to Todmorden and Hebden Bridge:



The thing on a string, which wants to travel "from castle to castle".

Lest we forget, a cache in memory of a soldier, which wants to stay in peaceful places.

Happy Caching - Great Britain, which wants to go to the Scottish Highlands and Ireland - we're hoping to take this to Northern Ireland later this year, and will email the cache owner for permission to hold onto it for a few weeks until we do. This one has travelled nearly 6000 miles so far!