Tolleshunt Triangle - Major Bonus Multi-cache

GC1Q3M4 Church Micro 573 St Nicholas, Tolleshunt Major

GC1Q3M6 Church Micro 470 St Nicholas, Tolleshunt D’arcy

GC1Q3M8 Church Micro 577 All Saints, Tolleshunt Knights

Each church micro cache can be completed as a stand-alone cache. Associated with each church micro is a bonus cache which allows for a short walk. The coordinates for each bonus cache are written on the back of the related church micro logbook. The three bonus caches are:

GC1Q3M5 Tolleshunt Triangle, Major Bonus

GC1Q3M7 Tolleshunt Triangle, D’arcy Bonus

GC1Q3MA Tolleshunt Triangle, Knights Bonus

The logbook of each Bonus cache contains part of the coordinates for a final bonus cache. All three bonus caches will need to be found to obtain the full coordinates for the final bonus. The final bonus cache is:

GC1Q3MC Tolleshunt Triangle Final Bonus

TOLLESHUNT MAJOR

Major is a corruption of the word ‘Mauger’ or ‘Malger’ a surname. The earliest records are from 1150 in the reign of King Stephen. Malger was the surname of a man who held the manor. An alternative name used in the early nineteenth century was Tolleshunt Beckingham. The name was derived from Sir Stephen Beckingham the owner of Beckingham Hall adjacent to the church (details in the church micro information). The village public house The Bell became known as the Beckingham Bell. There are no shops, street lights, mains gas supply or bus service in the village but it does have a pub!

Hill farm is no longer standing; it had stood on the site that is now Beckingham Business Park. Little is known about the property other than it did not have a staircase – just an ordinary ladder to access the top floor. It was known for growing strawberries and also had cattle with a large dairy section. When Jack Cohen (founder of Tesco) was looking for farms he bought Hill Farm, amongst others locally. He decided to can the strawberries by converting some of the dairy equipment and from this the business grew. At one point they were canning 100,000 cans an hour and employed 300-400 staff who were brought in from the surrounding parishes by buses. The business was sold a couple of times before being developed into the Business Park. Hill farmhouse stood where the reception is now.

TOLLESHUNT TRIANGLE - MAJOR BONUS

This is a bonus cache for people who have completed the Church Micro 573 St Nicholas Tolleshunt Major cache (GC1Q3M4) and would like a small walk in the area as well.

The co-ordinates given are for Tolleshunt Major Village not the cache. The actual co-ordinates for the bonus cache will be found in the church micro cache.

The route to the bonus cache is on public roads and footpaths.

This is a small cache container suitable for small swaps.

The logbook contains part of the coordinates for Tolleshunt Triangle Final Bonus Cache (GC1Q3MC)