Windy Common Traditional Cache
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Cache description
Windy Common
The cache is a small 0.25litre clip-lock box in a camouflage bag - suitable for small trackables.
Please also ensure cache is well hidden and camouflaged afterwards.
Location Information
This Grade I listed picturesque wooden smock mill at Stelling Minnis, is situated between Canterbury, Folkestone and Ashford and has been completely renovated to repair weather damage.
The Mill itself is accessible via Mill Lane which is a turning off Curtis Lane at its junction with Bossingham Road.
The mill is owned by by the Kent County Council and managed by the Stelling Minnis Windmill and museum Trust which was came in being on 26 January 2010.
It was built by the Holman brothers of Canterbury in 1866 and is known as Davison’s Mill after the family who worked it for a century until the last miller Alec Davison died in 1970.
The renovation was carried out by I.J.P. Conservation incorporating The Chiltern Partnership of Oxfordshire at a cost of £120,000. The money being provided jointly by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Kent County Council and the work took three months. The mill itself and its associated museum was closed to visitors during renovation work.
The museum tells the story of mills and millers, the local agricultural scene, and includes a diorama of the ancient manorial common of Stelling Minnis, one of the few remaining unenclosed commons in the South East, it is open on a Sunday between 2pm and 5pm for visitors.
The original cache (Yellow Nesquik Box) when placed contains:
A log Book and assorted pens.
Geo Note.
Mini peg clips
finger puppet
4 AA batteries
Lashenden Airfield note book
Cache originally placed by the 'Oompaloompas' in 2003.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Va n cngpu bs bcra ynaq vg'f va gur ohfu oenapurf jurer gurl sbex naq haqre gur evtug unaq ohfu.