Ysceifiog - that's easy for you to say! Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 1/29/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: large (large)

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Geocache Description:

What goes down, must come back up! There's a few stiles, and both the micro and cache are just off public footpaths. The co-ordinates for the cache are in the micro. Might need the spoilers in summer due to tree cover (for the micro), but main cache is nearer an open field so signal should be possible at all times in the field.

Marzis tip -
Very nearby cache 0.2 miles from stage 1 to NWWT 2 Y Ddol (visit link) if you want to GO FOR IT!!

Park by St Mary's church. Walk past the Fox Inn and in 50yds on the right is the start, along a footpath.

17th century Ysceifiog was a busy village, situated on the main road from Chester to Denbigh. Packhorses, laden carts and stage coaches all regularly passed through. Ysceifiog lakes (where you'll find the micro and the cache, {but no Phil, it's not on the island!}), are man-made, created by the Earl of Denbigh in 1904 for fishing. Look for the nesting coots, moorhens. mallard, swans and dragon flies skimming the water in the summer.

Inns:
At one time Ysceifiog village had three inns:
The Fox
The Blue Hound
The Talbot
Today only the Fox Inn remains. The Fox was built around 1730 and named after a family called Fox from County Kildare in Ireland. About that time the heiress of one of Ysceifiog's local estates, an Elizabeth Williams of Colomendy, married Ignatius Fox, an industrialist from County Kildare.

The church:
The present church, St Mary's, was built between 1835 and 1837 at a cost of £1135, though there is thought to have been a church on the site since possibly as early as the 5th century. The architect was a John Welsh who designed Birmingham Town Hall and many churches on the Isle of Man. The style of the present church is Early English with five stained glass windows. In 1911 the old box pews were removed and replaced with the present seating.

The church bells were rung on all notable occasions. They were rung when William of Orange landed at Torbay on November 5 1688 and rung every year on that date for many years afterwards. A small bell that used to be in the tiny bell-cote on the old church tower was given to the school in 1816 and stolen from there in 1978.

The earliest register now in existence dates from 1662, the earlier registers having been burnt. The oldest piece of church plate is a chalice known as 'The cuppe of Ysceifiog' and dated 1633.

The Church Cross is said to date from the 15th century. Its broken shaft stands three feet two inches above the octagonal base. The marks on the base are said to have been made by archers sharpening their arrows. Parishioners were bound by Royal Command to practise archery after Divine service on Sundays and Holy Days at the time of the Plantagenets.

Customs and traditions:
There is a cave on the Pant Gwyn stream near Ffynnon Fair where it is said that King Arthur sleeps, awaiting the call of the Welsh nation.

Ysceifiog was noted for its white witches. One died in the parish in 1932 and others lived here as late as 1938.

Funeral parties used to walk behind the coffin to church. They would halt and recite the Lord's Prayer at every cross roads. This is thought to be a reminder of the day when there were actual crosses there. After these were destroyed trees were often planted in their place. The funeral party would stop again at the church gate and pray again before entering the building. Today the Rector meets the family mourners and the coffin at the church gate and walks ahead to the church, saying a prayer.

Micro contents -
co-ordinates for main cache

Congratulation to Phil (PhilPamAndRob) who was first to find this Geocache on 3/2/07, and what a challange it was to get that micro.

Contents in cache are in plastic bags - please exchange items leaving new 'toys' in the plastic bags (wary of rust/condensation in cache). Thanks TM

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Zvpeb - Anghenyl Uvqqra va gerr srj zrgref bs gur cngu. Pnag frr gur gerrf sbe gur jbbq ? Znva pnpur - Oruvaq ynetr snyyra gerr gehapx, frg onpx bs gur cngu.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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