Englands Richest Village Cache (Kessingland) Traditional Geocache
Englands Richest Village Cache (Kessingland)
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Coopers Lane, Kessingland, Suffolk.
Cache is a tupperware box , with small log, take your own writing implement :) Located half a mile down coopers lane Kessingland, terrain is single track road leading to the cache area, not suitable for motor vehicles.
Reason for name:
Kessingland, once regarded as the richest village in England,is a former fishing village with great historical 'treasure'. The Doomsday Book identifies it as Rodenhall, an important town back in 1086. Both Palaeolithic and Neolithic artifacts have been unearthed in Kessingland and the remains of an ancient forest lie buried on the seabed.
Kessingland owes much of its sea protection and beach conservation to probably the most famous of Kessingland's residents, novelist Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925). Although born in Norfolk and educated in Ipswich. In 1900 he bought The Cliff Grange, later renamed the Kessingland Grange, as a holiday home. Whilst at the grange he experimented successfully with marram grass to protect the beach from the sea, which can still be seen today.
Between the Hundred River and Latmer Dam was once a large estuary which was used by the Vikings and Romans. The sea provided the village with its main livelihood, and at one time the village paid a rent of 22,000 herrings to their Lords, which then made it more important than nearby Lowestoft.
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