Parish Perimeter - Northill: Deadman's Oak Traditional Cache

This is part of a series of caches set around the border of the parish of Northill, Bedfordshire

At each point where a road breaks through the boundary to enter the parish a cache has been placed. In the log book for each of these caches there is a piece of information which can be used to locate a bonus cache: The Interior.

Northill parish has two websites: one for the Parish Council and a Community Information Web Site. The parish is home to the Ickwell May Day festivities which have been taking place on the green in Ickwell since at least 1565.

The full list of caches in this series is below.

• Parish Perimeter - Northill: Hitchin Road (GC2XH2K)
• Parish Perimeter - Northill: Great North Road (GC2XH2Q)
• Parish Perimeter - Northill: Ivel (GC2XH2V)
• Parish Perimeter - Northill: Transport Café (GC2XH2X)
• Parish Perimeter - Northill: Hatch Road (GC2XH33)
• Parish Perimeter - Northill: A603 (GC2XH37)
• Parish Perimeter - Northill: Grove Farm (GC2XH3B)
• Parish Perimeter - Northill: Sheerhatch Wood (GC2XH3E)
• Parish Perimeter - Northill: Deadman's Oak (GC2XH3F)
• Parish Perimeter - Northill: Shuttleworth (GC2XH3J)
• Parish Perimeter - Northill: The Interior (GC2XH3N)

We hope you enjoy this series and get a feeling for the varied nature of this parish.

Here the parish boundary crosses the road junction between Sheerhatch Wood and goes down/comes from an avenue of chestnut trees. Why Deadman's Oak? Well until recent years a large dead oak tree stood on the corner of the road junction. You can still see the big stump. At the top of this dead oak was carved a face and the dead limbs of the tree mimicked arms. There were many locals disappointed when it was cut down.