Bus Stop Bewilderment - 143 Mortimer Village Hall Traditional Cache
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Bus Stop Bewilderment - 143 Mortimer Village Hall
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Designed for the weary traveller, Bus Stop Bewilderment caches are designed to be a quick, easy and clean find for the eager cacher.
A parody on Motorway Mayhem, SideTracked and other transport series, a BSB cache should not be placed at every bus stop in the country; there are several criteria :
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The 143 service travels to/from Reading Town Centre, Bath Road, Burghfield Road, Burghfield, Burghfield Common, Mortimer, Silchester, Pamber Heath, Tadley.
Mortimer - or Stratfield Mortimer - was named, in Saxon times, after the Strad-Feld or “Street-Field”, the open land around the Devil’s Highway, the Roman road from London to Silchester. There is an extremely rare Saxon tombstone in the parish church. It reads:
On 8th before Kalends of October,
Aegalward son Kypping was laid in this place.
Blessed be he who prays for his Soul.
Toki wrote this.
Aegalward is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in AD 994. He was a historian, a translator of the chronicle and a man of influence. Kypping, his father, was Lord of the Manor of Stratfield Mortimer. Toki was a wealthy courtier in Canute’s Reign. No doubt, he took advantage of the lull in hostilities between Dane & Saxon to erect this monument to a learned man of the previous century.
Mortimer Common, where the villagers once freely grazed their livestock, was enclosed for cultivation in 1802, mostly with the consent of the parish residents, although the vicar protested. The settlement of 'Mortimer' or 'Mortimer Common' began to slowly grow up soon afterwards, although there wasn't any massive building programme until the 1870s. In the 1850s, a 'wise women' lived there. She was thought to have bewitched several people in the village. One of her victims bore a scar that he covered with black silk to prevent further misfortune. (maintained by Cachehoppers)
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Vafvqr, nobir gur rzcgl jvaqbj, ba gur cbfg obk fvqr, va gur gevnathyne pbeare.
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