Beeching's Axe I Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 1/9/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

On public footpath, level walk with views over the Clwydian Range. If you want to extend the walk, there are further footpaths over fields. See below for Drive-by coordinates.

Exit HM Stanley Hospital car park (on foot) and turn right towards St Asaph Leisure Centre where you will see a Public Footpath sign pointing to the right. Follow this sign to the old disused railway track and on to the cache. The A525 is a busy road, so please take care with children (and other animals) by side of road.

Recommended car parking at HM Stanley - see history below.
St Asaph Union workhouse was erected in 1838-9 on the east side of the Denbigh Road to the south of St Asaph. The Poor Law Commissioners authorised an expenditure of £5,499.16s.8d. on construction of the building which was intended to accommodate 200 inmates.
In 1847, the five-year old orphan John Rowlands became an inmate of the workhouse. In later life in the USA, Rowlands adopted the name Henry Morton Stanley and, as a journalist for the New York Herald, tracked down the missing explorer Dr David Livingstone, greeting him with the famous words "Dr Livingstone, I presume?"
Stanley had been placed in the workhouse by his foster parents Richard and Jeny Price after his uncles had refused to pay them an increase in the boy's maintenance. Stanley's autobiography vividly recalls his memories of St Asaph workhouse. (visit link)
After 1930, the workhouse became St Asaph Public Assistance Institution. From 1910 until 1948, the St Asaph Infectious Diseases Hospital also operated on the site.
The former workhouse buildings are still (2000) in use as the HM Stanley Hospital.
St Asaph (visit link)

The old railway line was closed in the 1960s during Beeching's exploits - see below.
The Beeching Axe is an informal name for the British Government's attempt in the 1960s to control the spiralling cost of running the British railway system by closing what it considered to be little-used and unprofitable railway lines.
It was a reaction to the failed railway modernisation plan of the 1950s, which spent huge amounts of money on buying new equipment, such as new diesel and electric locomotives, without first examining the role of the railway and its requirements, recognising the implications of changing old-fashioned working practices, or tackling the problem of chronic overmanning. The result of this was to plunge the railway system deeply into debt.

The cache is 95mm (3.75in) long x 25mm (1in) diameter, containing a log sheet and pencil.

Congratulation's to PhilPamAndRob who was 1st to find this Geocache on 14/1/07 at 9.05am.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Orgjrra gur pbeentengrq furrg naq gur jbbqra cbfg

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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