Cottage Capers Traditional Cache
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This cache is located in Swanston Village. The cache can be accessed by either a concrete road or packed earth path. It is uphill all the way from the car park. However, it is not too steep. The cache is located on the other side of a kissing gate. This may be difficult for wheel chairs and strollers to pass through. The cache is located a few metres from this gate.
The first record of Swanston village appears in 1214ad as part of the district of Redhall. An agreement was struck between a farmer, called Svienn, and the local Anglian landowners, to work the land. The spelling of Sveinn'ston was then changed over the centuries to finally end up as the modern documented Swanston.
The village of Swanston, about 600 feet above sea-level, grew up in the early eighteenth century around the farm and originally consisted of ten thatched cottages. The thatched cottages still remain but when renovated in about 1960 the outer walls were retained but the ten cottages were made into seven.
In 1761 Swanston Cottage was built. Robert Louis Stevenson's parents, Thomas and Margaret (neé Balfour) leased Swanston Cottage for a dozen years or so, for the period of their only son's late 'teens and twenties (1867 until 1880).
At the turn of the 20th century the stone cottages of New Swanston with their slated roofs were built on three sides round a grass area just across the burn from the old village.
The cache is placed near the old thatched cottages, just off a popular walking route. You do not have to go near the golf course.
The cache is a small box 9x5x4 cm in size. The cache when first placed contained a log book, pencil, mini deck of cards, small magic trick, a small badge and an old Scout badge. Some coins were also in the cache.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Orgjrra ebbgf bs n gerr pbirerq ol n fgbar