A Jewel in Penzance Multi-Cache
The T4 Two: Have decided to archive our caches as and when they need maintenance as we are no longer getting out and about geocachingand thought it would give someone else a chance to place a new one in/around this lovely area [:)]
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A multi cache (ending with a nano)taking you around our favourite Penzance garden, we hope you enjoy it as much as we do. When we set this cache the gardens were open from 8am to 8pm but these hours may change in the winter months.
Morrab is derived from the Cornish words mor = sea & app = shore or coastal land. Until the late 1830s the land after the chapel of St Mary's was indeed sand dunes. However, Samuel Pidwell, a local brewer, decided that the sloping site was the ideal place for his new home and in 1841 he built the house.
Later Morrab House was bought by Charles Campbell Ross, the local MP. In the late 1880's, the house and land were purchased by the Penzance Corporation for use as a public park. The independent society running the Penzance Library elsewhere in the town then moved into the house. The building still houses the library.
With the purchase of additional land the gardens were turned into a municipal park in 1889. The corporation commissioned Reginald Upcher, a landscape gardener from London, to lay out the 3.5 acre site.
The 1891 Census records the gardener as being a Thomas Dorothy from Devon. In 1904 a secluded garden was created in memory of the men of Penzance who gave their lives in the South African Boer War. At this time only officers were commemorated on memorials so the record is incomplete.
On August the 5th 1905 the bandstand, donated by local coal merchant J. H. Bennett, was opened with a grand concert by the Penzance Military Band and band concerts continue in the gardens today.
Stage 1
N50 07.016 W005 32.234
Dates on gates = ABBC ACBC
Speed limit D
Stage 2
N50 06.C(B-A)D W005 32.AC(D+A)
No of letters in any one name = E
Last digit of date = F
Stage 3
N50 06.CC(F-A) W005 32.(E-D)D(F+E)
No of Otters = G
No of Turtles = H
No of fish (including caught!) = I
(Note: Every write up we have found claims the Otter is a Seal - we’d be pleased to know what you think !)
Stage 4
N50 06.(H+I)F(H+H) W005 32.(G+G)(I-D)(H+D)
How many creatures can you find? = JJ
Stage 5
N50 06.(J+J+J)I(I+J) W005 32.(J-G)(D+J)(J-D)
Cecil Simons’ Co = KL
Final
N50 06.(K+L)LI W005 32.(L-G)FL
Edit on 24/10/2009. Glad to see that everyone agrees with us on the Otter/Seal query - now, do we inform the writer of the relevant document or not LOL. Maybe not!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Svany Fgntr : Gernq Pnershyyl
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