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Arnside Knott, Cumbria |
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By: flipflopnick Date: October 30, 2012, 7:21 am |
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For International Earthcache Day, went over Arnside Knott with |
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fellow cacher TIGG, a low limestone hill overlooking Morecambe |
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Bay. Started by arriving in time to see the tidal bore racing in |
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for Kent Estuary Tidal Bore EC |
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http://coord.inf |
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o/GC1400H. Parked for free on the promenade, |
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thus guaranteeing no uphill to the finish. With Tigg then walked |
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up past the Beach Walk cafe towards Arnside YHA and on to the |
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tarmac, Red Hills Road. Shortly, turned off that road to ascend |
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Knott Lane in order to get on to the path to the woods covering |
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the Knott. Short road section. Once on summit did the necessary |
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to claim the Arnside Knott EC |
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http://coord.inf |
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o/GC1W9D5. We had already found the Arnside |
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Knott GC |
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http://coord.inf |
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o/GCTH2Y of same name. Awesome views of |
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Morecambe Bay filled with water. Dropped off the summit to |
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Arnside Tower GC |
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http://coord.inf |
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o/GC2W3EA through woods. Plenty of people out |
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in popular walking area. |
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From Arnside Tower, a ruined pele tower, headed south west to a |
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caravan park. In the grounds look out for path heading off north |
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west across fields. Easily missed. Stay on well used footpath |
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across fields to an impressive stone wall and tarmac road. Cross |
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the road and walk down to yet another caravan park, Holgates. If |
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tide is not high, you might be able to find ramp down on to the |
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beach and What we did on our holidays GC |
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http://coord.inf |
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o/GC2Q8BB. |
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From caravan park, take the path west around edge of the bay |
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through old oak woodland and birch scrub. Eventually finding |
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baywatch GC |
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o/GC1C04F, after many path choices. All of them |
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okay. |
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You could continue round the edge of the bay, but we cut across |
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to New Barns bay, though a third caravan park. At the entrance |
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to this third caravan park is a shop and cafe with outside |
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seating, selling ice creams. |
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From New Barns bay, headed up New Barns road to rejoin our |
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earlier route at the junction of Red hills Road and Knott Lane. |
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Retraced our steps towards YHA, down narrow path to Beach Walk |
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cafe, mentioned earlier for a cup of tea and cake. |
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5+ miles in 3-4 hours with awesome views. 6 cache potential |
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Re: Arnside Knott, Cumbria |
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By: walktall Date: October 30, 2012, 9:19 am |
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[quote author=flipflopnick link=topic=190.msg2778#msg2778 |
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date=1351599665] |
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Parked for free on the promenade, thus guaranteeing no uphill to |
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the finish. |
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[/quote] |
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I did the Earth cache while staying at the YHA in Arnside. You |
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get a great view off the top of the hill where the co-ordinates |
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take you for the Earth cache. It's a reasonable walk up hill to |
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get there but it is worth it for the view :) |
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Brilliant you saw the bore, the water was too low to see it when |
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I was there :( |
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