26/02/22 - The Lost and Found Pubs of Thornbury

Distance - 5 Miles

Geocaches - 20 and 2 Adventure Lab Caches

Local cache trails are running out but South Gloucestershire's Thornbury looks a hot bed of geocaching activity.

Three goals for today:

Goal 1: A trail of 20 Traditional Geocaches based on Premier League Teams

A decent ramble from the Munday Playing Fields, where muggle activity forced me into doing the round in reverse.  Well maintained caches, each with a Panini Sticker of the appropriate club on the log book.  I would like to say I made  clean sweep of it but 1xDNF, Ixfail to solve a puzzle cache and 1x "Multi Did Not Attempt as I was probably going in the wrong direction" meant it was a Vauxhall Conference effort from Mappiman.

Geocaching Terrain

With the Baggies languishing, I have to bring you a picture of enemy insignia

Goal 2: Adventure Lab Caches

The town has two ALC's - one explaining the history and one explaining the lost pubs.  I do love a bit of pub archaeology, so this held more than the usual level of interest.  The sites were sequential and more or less shared between the two ALCs - so they were run simultaneously.  Took some effort in flipping between puzzles in the App but I got there.  Importantly, without bumping into other pedestrians or getting run over.

Centre of Thornbury - with a Dead Pub to the left - The White Hart now the Natwest

History Today

Goal 3: The Anchor Inn - Good Beer Guide Tick #652

On the road out of town was the sole Good Beer Guide Tick in the 2022 version of the Bible.  A food led pub, located on the way back to the motorway.

Good Choice of Proper Job, Courage Directors and a chosen Landlord.

A fellow pub ticker tweeted the pet hates for pubs that he was experiencing in Portsmouth.  These included prams blocking access, random piles of logs and cushions.  I replied that I had all of these, plus a special table reserved for the sale of cake.

Still, a fine fishfinger sandwich and a good Timothy Taylor meant it wasn't all bad.

The Greek themed specials menu - complete with Greek flag bunting - looked interesting.

I'm kicking myself now that I didn't check for gyros.

Licenced from 1695

Kids... Prams... Logs.... Cake Table!