Geocaching at Alderley Edge – Cheshire, England

A great day exploring the countryside around Alderley Edge village and finding some geocaches.

Alderley walk information:

  • Distance: 5.4 km
  • Duration: 2h
  • Ascent: 66 m
  • Level: Easy
  • Car Park: Artist Lane, Alderley Edge, SK10 4UA
  • Geocaching: Alderley Amble 1 to 17
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Geocaching object

The other weekend we had some French couchsurfers at home and on the saturday they wanted to do a little hike mixed with some geocaching.

For those who do not know what is Couchsurfing, it is the fact of hosting people at home for free and in return being able to sleep for free at other people home. I talked about this wonderful experience in our article about the Yorkshire coast.

Read our visit of the Yorkshire coast here.

Geocaching, on the other hand, is an activity that you can do with your family, friends or on your own and which, consist of finding objects hidden in the nature much like a treasure hunt. There is an application of the same name that you can download on your phone and that will tell you the object close to you. There are a lot in the world, and without knowing it we pass close to them every day. I did not think that this activity was widespread but when I saw the number of object on the application and the number of people playing it I wondered why I haven’t heard about this activity before.

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So we found on the application a circular hike in Alderley Edge bordering with Nether Alderley that included 17 objects.

We did not find all the objects especially the last 4 as I think we were fed up and my mobile phone had no more battery lol. With Matthieu we decided that we would do it again but with less objects to find, maximum 4-5 objects will be good for 10 km walk because we really felt like we stopped every 5 mins to look for an object.

The hike itself is very easy because there is no ascent and passes by the National Trust property Nether Alderdey. We took the opportunity to see this old mill from outside because the visits are only by reservation. Alderley Edge is a posh village and this hike passes in front of the beautiful houses. We were able to observe magnificent houses.

Do you know Geocaching? The village of Alderley Edge?

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13 thoughts on “Geocaching at Alderley Edge – Cheshire, England

  1. J’adore le concept du geocaching, c’est tellement simple en plus il fallait juste y penser! J’ai découvert ça il y a environ 10 ans et j’avais recerché 2 capsules à Toulouse. Je n’ai jamais trouvé la 2nde d’ailleurs. Comme toi, j’avais été très surprise du nombre d’inscrits alors que je n’en avais entendu parler que par un collègue de travail.

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