Hundy Mundy Letterbox Hybrid
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Hundy Mundy! What a name! What a structure! It just has to be a folly doesn’t it?!
The Hundy Mundy is an 18th century folly which stands prominently in a gap between trees in a wood on a low ridge to the south east of Mellerstain House in the Borders. It was built directly opposite the mansion, and even today it is easy to imagine the occupants of this famous Georgian house gazing out towards it. The wood and folly were part of a designed landscape begun in 1725 by the architect William Adam, and completed seventy years later by his renowned son Robert.
The first time I saw the Hundy Mundy was the morning after a rather long drinking session the night before. We were heading to Yorkshire from Fife and had decided to drive via the A68. Fortunately I wasn’t behind the steering wheel for I think I was still tipsy actually, but my partner at the time was driving and he must have taken a wrong turning somewhere because there ahead of us was this glorious eye catcher. Up to that point I had been nattering nonsensically non-stop, to the immense irritation of my partner, but I was suddenly dumbstruck when I saw this. I think I fell in love with follies and the Borders simultaneously at that moment. It just seemed such an extraordinary thing to see in the landscape. That was probably 15 years ago or so, and I have never seen the Hundy Mundy again until now. But I have never forgotten it, and in the intervening years I have often wondered what road we must have taken to give us the view of it that we had - and even now I still have no idea of how we managed to come across it!
From my research it seems that the Hundy Mundy was once inaccessible, however, the wood is now a Natural Burial Site (http://www.nativewoodland.co.uk/index.php?page=57) and access is freely available. However, for reasons of respect both to the deceased and to the environment, the cache is not hidden within the wood itself but it does have a view of the Hundy Mundy from the final location.
Please note that this used to be a two stage cache but due to nature and time covering up stage one, I will now just give cachers the A, B, C and D digits.
These are:
A = 8
B = 3
C = 1
D = 8
Final location is at N55 3A. 0 D C W002 3(B - C). A D (B + C)
Please also note that this is a LETTERBOX cache and contains only a log book, pencil, ink pad and stamp which should all stay in the cache.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Onfr bs ovt ebhaq cbfg
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