We headed out to Walberton at lunch time so that we could try out the local pub. We had planned a lot of caches today so needed to fill our bellies! Walberton is a village in West Sussex; it only contains three Traditional caches and one Mystery. The only pub in the village is The Holly Tree.
The outside is very charming and if you plan on stopping for something to eat while caching here (despite there not being many) this is well worth a visit.
I actually remembered to take a picture of the food this time! My pie was FULL of steak and not just small pieces of beef; these were big chunks cooked so nicely. Lewis' burger was pretty big and you could tell it was handmade fresh purely because of the shape and size. Really nice food and average pub pricing. My Steak and Ale pie was £11 and I think the fish and chips were the same price. Lewis burger was around £11 too. Staff were very friendly so I recommend stopping by for lunch or dinner.
On to caching!
Piggy Cache
We parked in the village community hall's car park, free to do. The first cache was about 650 meters away from the car park located in some fields. The day was quite warm for a British Winter but quite muddy too. The first cache was very easy to spot, it's a larger ammo box full of all sorts! Great cache for kids.
Doesn't Lew look lovely? 😎
Roman Villa - Walberton
Of course Lewis would pick a cache that was Roman related, you can see that the site of the Villa is very open; with a view far and wide all the way round. With Roman buildings the idea was to be on open plain or a site where you had a vantage point to the surrounding area. if I have Listened to Lewis correctly it was key that you could see all around you in case of attack, they couldn't sneak up on you!
You can see a lot of flint as you walk along the field as well as newer grass were recent trenches for excavating had been. Walking towards the cache Lewis picked up a piece of Roman tile (most likely roof); you can tell it's Roman because the clay isn't baked red all the way through.
Upon approaching the tree you had to explore it to find the cache, It's attached to some string so it's required to dig your hand inside and pull it out. Favourite point for sure.
Church Micro 871 St. Mary's, Binsted.
Continuing along the path you reach a nice steep hill with a church at the top! The cache is located just outside the church grounds, and is the smallest cache in this village. It was a easy find and surprisingly nice and dry. This cache does take you through a golf course so keep your eyes open for an over head balls!
After this cache you can head back the same way and easily follow the roads back to the car park. I once again forgot to reset the GPS but we were most likely walking for 1.5-2 hours. I calculated 2.08 miles but that's with straight lines unlike the paths actually traveled being quite windy and around fields. By this time my FitBit was around 6400 steps at a guess.
We did then travel to Firmile Bottom in Arundel which we planned to collect 2 series but as it was getting dark we collected 2 caches of one series that were far out and plan on the rest of the series another Saturday!
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