+Rocky Balboa Posted March 29, 2002 Share Posted March 29, 2002 Yesterday i hid a cache in blackpool the first in that town as far as i am aware. Now i live in Aylesbury around 130 miles away and cacme back today with coordinates etc ready to post on this site. unfortunatly my etrex has since decided that it wont turn on any more. So until this is fixed i will not know them. There is also a chance that when the problems fixed my gps will return with a blank memmory hence the cache coordinate being lost forever and a cache being left in the countryside where no one will ever find it. Basically this is a plea for anyone who lives in blackpool or who knows the area. The cache is located on a public bridle way off a national speed limited country round rougly 3 miles from the tower. it is a short walk down this bridle way, then with your back to the road it is opposite a bridge hidden along the bottom of a fence quite near to a small dip in the ground. If someone knows of this place and could mark some coords for me and email me them i would be the most greatfull person alive. you would also be the first to find the cache. I know its a long shot but i dont have many other options at the moment. thanks, Dan. Quote Link to comment
pinhead Posted March 31, 2002 Share Posted March 31, 2002 Having lived in Blackpool for 20 years I know the area pretty well, but there's no way I could find the cache from your description. Do you know any road names near the cache? Quote Link to comment
+Rocky Balboa Posted April 1, 2002 Author Share Posted April 1, 2002 hmmmmm well i think that if you go out of blackpool driving towards preston or south whatever for quite a distance ( i think this is called blackpool road) or something like that. You turn left near a church? and its up that way somewhere. basically there is a little village connectedto blackpool by this little country road (national speed limit) this road is about 1 - 2 miles long? there are fields either side of this road and 3 or 4 bridle ways / paths. when you get out and read the sign it says public bridle way. its hidden on the path with a bridge about 500metres down it opposite the bridge where the fence makes a right angle. I know this may not mean anything but if you know where that road is it wouldnt be all that hard to find. any ideas now? Dan. Quote Link to comment
+Rocky Balboa Posted April 1, 2002 Author Share Posted April 1, 2002 hmmmmm well i think that if you go out of blackpool driving towards preston or south whatever for quite a distance ( i think this is called blackpool road) or something like that. You turn left near a church? and its up that way somewhere. basically there is a little village connectedto blackpool by this little country road (national speed limit) this road is about 1 - 2 miles long? there are fields either side of this road and 3 or 4 bridle ways / paths. when you get out and read the sign it says public bridle way. its hidden on the path with a bridge about 500metres down it opposite the bridge where the fence makes a right angle. I know this may not mean anything but if you know where that road is it wouldnt be all that hard to find. any ideas now? Dan. Quote Link to comment
+jeremyp Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 So you think it's probably South of Blackpool, there's a village whose name you can't recall, there are some fields and a public bridleway.... I think it's still a bit of a long shot I'd rate it difficulty 5 for now if I were you ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat! Quote Link to comment
+jeremyp Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 So you think it's probably South of Blackpool, there's a village whose name you can't recall, there are some fields and a public bridleway.... I think it's still a bit of a long shot I'd rate it difficulty 5 for now if I were you ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat! Quote Link to comment
+Rocky Balboa Posted April 1, 2002 Author Share Posted April 1, 2002 thanx for the constructive comment! if you visited blackpool youd see why i dont think its all that impossible to find the cache. I had to drive around for nearly an hour before we found any fields! if someone does know the area well i am sure they will see these bridleways in the end and it will click. Quote Link to comment
+Rocky Balboa Posted April 1, 2002 Author Share Posted April 1, 2002 thanx for the constructive comment! if you visited blackpool youd see why i dont think its all that impossible to find the cache. I had to drive around for nearly an hour before we found any fields! if someone does know the area well i am sure they will see these bridleways in the end and it will click. Quote Link to comment
+kennamatic Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 "if you visited blackpool youd see why i dont think its all that impossible to find the cache" When I was there last October I had difficulty finding the Grand Hotel! Then again, I'd just had a 5 hour drinking spree in Rumours follwed by The Tower Bar. Finding your caches - Losing my marbles. Quote Link to comment
+kennamatic Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 "if you visited blackpool youd see why i dont think its all that impossible to find the cache" When I was there last October I had difficulty finding the Grand Hotel! Then again, I'd just had a 5 hour drinking spree in Rumours follwed by The Tower Bar. Finding your caches - Losing my marbles. Quote Link to comment
phredd Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 The bridge could be of importance. Is it a bridge that goes over a road, over a railway or over a river. Does the road you were on go over the bridge or under the bridge. Try again with your info:- try and be a little more specific. Phredd Quote Link to comment
phredd Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 The bridge could be of importance. Is it a bridge that goes over a road, over a railway or over a river. Does the road you were on go over the bridge or under the bridge. Try again with your info:- try and be a little more specific. Phredd Quote Link to comment
+brandwood Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 I live not too far from the area, if fact the kids have just gone off to Blackpool Zoo. Any chance of an OS grid ref - either from a map or on-line options. With a ref we could get to it soon Quote Link to comment
+The Northumbrian Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 You should be able to get a map from your local library 1:25.000 or 1 50.000 and then see if you can remember the place from looking at the map, I will go to Gateshead library tonight and find some maps on that area , and we may get some clues from it , Nige Quote Link to comment
+The Northumbrian Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 You should be able to get a map from your local library 1:25.000 or 1 50.000 and then see if you can remember the place from looking at the map, I will go to Gateshead library tonight and find some maps on that area , and we may get some clues from it , Nige Quote Link to comment
+Rocky Balboa Posted April 2, 2002 Author Share Posted April 2, 2002 Cheers guys this is starting to sound a little more promising. The area the cache is in is all fields for about a 2 mile period. There is only the one road running through the fields which goes from one village to blackpool outskirts (I THINK ITS BLACKPOOL OUTSKIRTS NE WAY. The bridge is down one of the 3 or 4 bridle ways. It crosses a stream. Quote Link to comment
+Chris n Maria Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 Go to http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ and click on "get a map" the enter the reference: SD373377 Looks like it could be somewhere near there? Chris "We're not lost - we just don't know where we are" London & UK Geocaching Resources: http://www.sheps.clara.net/Index.html Quote Link to comment
+Rocky Balboa Posted April 2, 2002 Author Share Posted April 2, 2002 Well ive just had a good look at the ordanance survey map. The place which looked most promising was this reference: Co-ordinates at centre - SD333310 (333380, 431000) GB Grid. This is the B5261 this however is by no means a certainty it just seems to go from a little village to the blackpool outskirts running through fields on the way. The cache is definatly around there though i would say the road i am talking about is that one or if not definatly within a miles radius. Quote Link to comment
+Slytherin Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 If you are sure it was a bridleway and not a footpath then you shouldn't have much problem. There are only 3 miles of bridleways in Blackpool Email technical.services@blackpool.gov.uk and ask them where the bridleways are. Quote Link to comment
Ben Pid Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 LOL,,,The hunt fr the Missing Cache..This is turning into a bit of Mission! Hope you find it guys. Ben xxxx WESTSIDE RESPEK! Lets get the party started! xxxx Quote Link to comment
+The Northumbrian Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 I got the 1:50 000 Blackpool preston sheet no 102 Looking at it I thought of the co-ordinates around N53 46 .850 W 002 54. 450, There is a railway bridge and a bridge over a small stream on the path, its in an area between B5260 and B5259. there is a church east of the crossroads when you turn off the B5260 onto the B5259 Villages around are called Little Plumpton and Ribby, Does any of this jog your memory? Nige Quote Link to comment
+The Northumbrian Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 I got the 1:50 000 Blackpool preston sheet no 102 Looking at it I thought of the co-ordinates around N53 46 .850 W 002 54. 450, There is a railway bridge and a bridge over a small stream on the path, its in an area between B5260 and B5259. there is a church east of the crossroads when you turn off the B5260 onto the B5259 Villages around are called Little Plumpton and Ribby, Does any of this jog your memory? Nige Quote Link to comment
phredd Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 TRY KIRKHAM AREA The area around Kirkham seems promissing. Name of road = Blackpool Road. Small village with church. KIRK = Church HAM = Hamlet Well I am trying, (yes - very) Quote Link to comment
+John Stead Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 This is becoming a treasure hunt in its own right! Just shows how Geocachers love to try to help each other out. I had come up with a similar answer to Northumbrian but having just looked at another topic about use of camera I see that Dan photographs every cache he goes to - how about publishing your photos of this one, Dan? It might help all of us who will be rushing round Blackpool/Kirkham in the next few days! Quote Link to comment
el10t Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 "Extreme geocaching" for those people who like things a little more difficult There is no way anyone could leave this one unfound! ----------- el10t "Fate deals me blow after blow!" Quote Link to comment
el10t Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 "Extreme geocaching" for those people who like things a little more difficult There is no way anyone could leave this one unfound! ----------- el10t "Fate deals me blow after blow!" Quote Link to comment
Ben Pid Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 Well from what I know....theres one slight problem...the Cache was placed in the dark lol......2 words...OH DEAR. LOL, XXXX WESTSIDE RESPEK! Lets get the party started! xxxx Quote Link to comment
Ben Pid Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 Well from what I know....theres one slight problem...the Cache was placed in the dark lol......2 words...OH DEAR. LOL, XXXX WESTSIDE RESPEK! Lets get the party started! xxxx Quote Link to comment
+John Stead Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 Woops!!!! Looks like we can look forward to a photo of a black sheep (used to be something else before PC) in a coal mine on a dark night. Or not? Quote Link to comment
el10t Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 Are we all absolutely sure this cache is near Blackpool? Could it have been Blackburn? Blackheath? Pontypool? Poole? ----------- el10t "Fate deals me blow after blow!" Quote Link to comment
Runemaster Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 Does Wrea Green ring a bell? Quote Link to comment
Ben Pid Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 NO NO,,,Rest Assured its Blackpool alright-I'll tell you what you can all do! TELESCOPE AND BLACKPOOL TOWER...........Hmmmmmmmmm WESTSIDE RESPEK! Lets get the party started! xxxx Quote Link to comment
The Baron of Basingstoke Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 The road that leads from Wrea Green (where a church is) to Warton might fit the bill. I recall that the national speed limit sign was pretty prominent and the road wiggles its way across fields for quite a way without interruption (hedgerows either side for a lot of the way). The roads off are more like tracks than roads. Looking at the OS map grid ref SD412298 there is a path that kinks (possibly due to the fence you mentioned) and crosses a stream. If you could remember local pubs (e.g. The Grapes, Burleigh Arms) I'd really be able to help you Quote Link to comment
The Baron of Basingstoke Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 The road that leads from Wrea Green (where a church is) to Warton might fit the bill. I recall that the national speed limit sign was pretty prominent and the road wiggles its way across fields for quite a way without interruption (hedgerows either side for a lot of the way). The roads off are more like tracks than roads. Looking at the OS map grid ref SD412298 there is a path that kinks (possibly due to the fence you mentioned) and crosses a stream. If you could remember local pubs (e.g. The Grapes, Burleigh Arms) I'd really be able to help you Quote Link to comment
+Rocky Balboa Posted April 2, 2002 Author Share Posted April 2, 2002 Wow guys, i could cry, you are all just so hlpfull! i first person to find this cache is gonna be named as the saint of cachers, the finest cacher of all time... Quite a few of your suggestions sound promising. I suggest that you all go to your selected site and search for it this weekend, blackpool could be infested with cachers, it would be a dream come true. Unfortunatly the photo i took of the site didnt come out, i was in a rush and it was pitch black. Oh and in reply to a previous comment, it is definatly on a bridle way yes. before i placed the cache i checked the sign at the start of the path to make sure it wasnt a private place. It said public bridle way. Good luck everyone. Very soon blackpools first cache will be on the site with coordinates to go with it! Quote Link to comment
+Rocky Balboa Posted April 2, 2002 Author Share Posted April 2, 2002 Oh, also in rply to someone elses comment, the cache is definatly near blackpool. I remember driving away from where i placed it and my hotel being roughly 3 and a half miles away. If anyone does go looking make a mark at 'the manchester' pub on blackpool sea front and drive around until your 3 and a half miles away. some where on this 3 and half mile line will be a road through fields, national speed limit, bridleways with really rubbish parking. and you will be less than 400 metres from the cache Quote Link to comment
dawnrazor Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 ROFL - Now THIS is serious caching No coordinates, just a rough guess at the location, go find it THEN post the coordinates back to the placer ! Only when the original placer revisits the cache with the coordinates do you win a prize - top stuff ! This is what caching is really all about* Good work guys. Eddie (*all comments made in jest) Quote Link to comment
dawnrazor Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 ROFL - Now THIS is serious caching No coordinates, just a rough guess at the location, go find it THEN post the coordinates back to the placer ! Only when the original placer revisits the cache with the coordinates do you win a prize - top stuff ! This is what caching is really all about* Good work guys. Eddie (*all comments made in jest) Quote Link to comment
+brandwood Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 This is becoming challenging. None of the ideas or descriptions fit for me. If you take a 5k/3.5m radius from the tower there is very little open land and very few bridelways marked oon the 25,000 OS map. Dan, as you left Blackpool, placing the cache, what was your route, where did you join the M55, or M6 or any other landmarks. The quest continues... Quote Link to comment
+brandwood Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 This is becoming challenging. None of the ideas or descriptions fit for me. If you take a 5k/3.5m radius from the tower there is very little open land and very few bridelways marked oon the 25,000 OS map. Dan, as you left Blackpool, placing the cache, what was your route, where did you join the M55, or M6 or any other landmarks. The quest continues... Quote Link to comment
+Rocky Balboa Posted April 3, 2002 Author Share Posted April 3, 2002 As i have said before, my route took the following direction.... Started at the Sea Breeze hotel opposite the sports hotel 2 just around the corner from the manchester pub which is on the sea front blackpool. (This location is where i made my first mark. I then drove out of blackpool along the sea front, came to a roundabout and turned right keeping us on the sea front, drove past the sand dunes and the pontins holiday camp which i think are marked on maps. And continued for another mile in very rough terms. The cache is somewhere to the left of here. * A SPECIAL NOTE TO EVERYONE LOOKING: I do remember driving past some sort of garden place with a medium sized lake on my way back into blackpool ( my origonal search for a hiding place had not brought up and possibilities so we took a different route back), it all looked like it had a chinese theme. If anyone knows this place imagine the gardens in question. it looked oblong shaped from the road. from the fraffic lights we drove left along the long side of the oblong off in that direction. Anyway i think we planted the cache about 1-2 miles from there so if there are any fields in that direction go check em out! Quote Link to comment
+Rocky Balboa Posted April 3, 2002 Author Share Posted April 3, 2002 As i have said before, my route took the following direction.... Started at the Sea Breeze hotel opposite the sports hotel 2 just around the corner from the manchester pub which is on the sea front blackpool. (This location is where i made my first mark. I then drove out of blackpool along the sea front, came to a roundabout and turned right keeping us on the sea front, drove past the sand dunes and the pontins holiday camp which i think are marked on maps. And continued for another mile in very rough terms. The cache is somewhere to the left of here. * A SPECIAL NOTE TO EVERYONE LOOKING: I do remember driving past some sort of garden place with a medium sized lake on my way back into blackpool ( my origonal search for a hiding place had not brought up and possibilities so we took a different route back), it all looked like it had a chinese theme. If anyone knows this place imagine the gardens in question. it looked oblong shaped from the road. from the fraffic lights we drove left along the long side of the oblong off in that direction. Anyway i think we planted the cache about 1-2 miles from there so if there are any fields in that direction go check em out! Quote Link to comment
The Quilted Camel Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 I'd have said this was an April Fool's joke had it been posted a few days later than it was. What's the time difference on this forum ? Quote Link to comment
The Quilted Camel Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 I'd have said this was an April Fool's joke had it been posted a few days later than it was. What's the time difference on this forum ? Quote Link to comment
Ben Pid Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Trust me this isn't an Aprils Fools joke! that's a swear by promise.....For one Dan lives in Aylesbury,,,Why would he make up a Cache in Blackpool, and know where everything is,,,the cache is oyut there somewhere just in true British fashion....Feck knows where????? WESTSIDE RESPEK! Lets get the party started! xxxx Quote Link to comment
Ben Pid Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 Trust me this isn't an Aprils Fools joke! that's a swear by promise.....For one Dan lives in Aylesbury,,,Why would he make up a Cache in Blackpool, and know where everything is,,,the cache is oyut there somewhere just in true British fashion....Feck knows where????? WESTSIDE RESPEK! Lets get the party started! xxxx Quote Link to comment
The Baron of Basingstoke Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 I think you have invented a new kind of virtual cache, Dan. Quote Link to comment
The Baron of Basingstoke Posted April 3, 2002 Share Posted April 3, 2002 I think you have invented a new kind of virtual cache, Dan. Quote Link to comment
+Rocky Balboa Posted April 3, 2002 Author Share Posted April 3, 2002 I think i have too. When this cache is found there is going to be some serious drinking done (all over the country) by the sounds of many people are interested now. Garmin have really peed me off excuse my french. What a day for my GPS to break down. by the way everyone, check out multimap.co.uk ariel photos section, its amazing! and may well shed some light on the matter. I couldnt really get any further myself but seeing what my road looked like from 5 miles up or however far it is made my day! Quote Link to comment
+Team Spike Posted April 4, 2002 Share Posted April 4, 2002 Wow! Thanks for that URL (www.multimap.co.uk). I've always wanted Arial photos of where I used to live! Sorry for being off topic - if I was near Blackpool I would help look. Groover Quote Link to comment
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