This Daughter went to Marian Mills Traditional Cache
This Daughter went to Marian Mills
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To celebrate their milestone, the 100th cache placed by Team Marzipan was called The Mother Cache (GC15RYZ). The object of The Mother Cache is for finders to take one of the ready-prepared caches, BUT ONLY if they are going to hide it as a Daughter Cache. This daughter went to Marian Mills and is our very first hide. It should be an easy micro to find. Don’t forget your pencil.
From the parking area, a few yards further down the road are the ruins of Grove Mill and a little further on Grove mill cottage. A fulling mill, called Pandy Mill, was situated behind what is now Grove Mill Cottage. This cottage once displayed the date of 1794, though it is no longer visible. The cottage was apparently renamed Grove Mill Cottage when occupied by a later owner of Grove Mill - a newer mill (erected in 1815). Grove Mill, for flour, closed in 1912, was re-opened in 1920 and finally closed five years later.
By the end of the 19th century there were apparently at least seven mills along the Afon Ffyddion within Dyserth parish, though not all were still in use. The majority of these were flour mills but two were fulling mills, where locally produced cloth was soaked in a mixture of water & fuller’s earth and pounded with wooden fulling hammers driven by a waterwheel. The cloth was then stretched out on tenter-frames (attached by tenter-hooks) and left to dry.
Walk up the track towards the cache, pass a trout farm on the left. The remains of “The Marian Mills” soon appear. A century ago the mills, including tearooms, were a popular tourist attraction; now “Felin Fawr” still has its original wheel shaft, but only the watercourse for the smaller “Felin Fach” remains. On the right is the Afon Ffyddion on its way towards Dyserth Waterfall a few miles away.
At the remains of the great wheel; The Offa’s Dyke path goes off to the right here and follows the track over the river. On the left is an enclosed reservoir and pumping station where the spring Ffynnon Asa(ph) joins the river Ffyddion. If you were to turn up the left track this would take you up a quiet bridleway to Trelawnyd.
Extracts taken from (visit link) please visit for more history and photographs.
Please note the cache is NOT in the structure of the wall nor in any private property.
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