28th July 2023 – Hooton Pagnell Village Part 1 Lab cache – The Village Pond – cache #6405
My first stop was in Hooton Pagnell, a one street tiny village in South Yorkshire with two sets of Ad Labs and a normal cache

28th July 2023 – Hooton Pagnell Village Part 1 Lab cache – 1903 – cache #6406

28th July 2023 – Hooton Pagnell Village Part 1 Lab cache – Shelter & Fine Pair – cache #6407

28th July 2023 – A Fine Pair #1675 ~ Hooton Pagnell GC9TDB4 – cache #6408
The fine Pair has both a Lab cache and a normal cache, and the phone and post boxes are separated by the bus shelter (guess where the cache is hidden)

28th July 2023 – Hooton Pagnell Village Part 1 Lab cache – The Buttercross – cache #6409

28th July 2023 – Hooton Pagnell Village Part 2 Lab cache – The Lych Gate – cache #6410

28th July 2023 – Hooton Pagnell Village Part 2 Lab cache – The Parish Church of All Saints – cache #6411

28th July 2023 – Hooton Pagnell Village Part 2 Lab cache – The Old Hall – cache #6412

28th July 2023 – Hooton Pagnell Village Part 2 Lab cache – The Old Gateway – cache #6413

28th July 2023 – Hooton Pagnell Village Part 1 Lab cache – The War Memorial – cache #6414

28th July 2023 – Hooton Pagnell Village Part 2 Lab cache – Lych Gate Gods Acre – cache #6415
For the final of the Hooton Pagnell Lab caches I drove out of the village rather than walked it as I didn’t want to spend any more time than necessary there

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village part 2 Lab cache – Holy Trinity Church – cache #6416
From Hooton Pagnell I drove down to Elsecar, which is a small mining village, with a Heritage Centre which is in the mining workshops, built in 1850’s and used by the NCB until the 1980’s – there are three sets of Ad Labs there

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village part 2 Lab cache – Elsecar Flour Mill – cache #6417

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village Lab cache – The Port of Elsecar – cache #6418

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village Lab cache – Newcomen Beam Engine – cache #6419

28th July 2023 – Rangers Silver Award – Elsecars Big Engine GCAADGA – cache #6420
The ‘Big Engine’ at Elsecar is the only Newcomen steam pumping engine still in it’s original location, built in 1795 to pump water from the mines

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village part 2 Lab cache – Darwin Yard – cache #6421

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village part 3 Lab cache – Hydraulic Pressure Tester – cache #6422

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village part 3 Lab cache – A stitch in time saves nine – cache #6423

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village part 3 Lab cache – Powerhouse Square – cache #6424

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village part 3 Lab cache – The Antique Hall – cache #6425

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village part 3 Lab cache – Stone Monument – cache #6426

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village part 2 Lab cache – The Inclined Plane – cache #6427

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village Lab cache – Fitzwilliam Lodge – cache #6428

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village Lab cache – Elsecar Reservoir – cache #6429

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village Lab cache – Elsecar Park The Bandstand – cache #6430

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village part 2 Lab cache – Ginko Tree – cache #6431

28th July 2023 – Elsecar Heritage Village AdLab Bonus GC9RTT0 – cache #6432
The Ad Lab bonus cache took me down a little track then through the hedge and a patch of brambles to an old mine entrance from a mine started in 1728…

28th July 2023 – Coffee, Cache and Dash 5 GCA86DQ – cache #6433
From Elsecar I then headed off south. next stop was Tibshelf Services on the M1, where I went for this cache, for which I had to be sneaky as there were many people out in the picnic area as it was such a nice day

28th July 2023 – PM 15 Friday night with the pirates GCA684D – cache #6434
And then it was a straight drive down to Naseby, or at least first to the nearby village of Desborough to check into my room at the local pub, and then onto the campsite at Naseby for the Friday night Piratemania event

And the first day of the Piratemania/UKMega holiday was over, 30 caches on the day
25 Labs
4 Traditional caches
1 Event