The Knights Templar Traditional Cache
Antheia: At Owners request
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Reletivly safe terrain along a country track. Please keep children supervised as you enter the farm area. Walkers during the day may meet the local huntsman and hounds exercising during the day. Recommended to stand still and they will pass you by.
Part 3 of the "Black Cat of the Knights Templar multi cache" that can be done all together or in sections to suit you. Difficulty is with collecting clues at each cache and finding a very unusual final cache. You are looking for a 35mm film container fixed by a magnet. Bring your own pen.
On this stage, please refer to the guide information board published by the local council. Its very informative. You may enter the tower. Please do not cause any graffiti whatsoever. Children must be supervised at all times within the tower> public access is granted under agreement with local council and landowner.
When you have completed this cache you have 2 choices. Return by the route you took to get here, or continue to stage 4 (SOLOMON'S TEMPLE).
NOTE: ADDITIONAL WAYMARKS have not been added, either in the farm or for close-by parking. Parking on the road verges in this area is note reccomended and may be a nuisance to farm traffic. Please "DO NOT" add a new waymark. Use the one reccommended route only.
For passage through the farm by the permissible public route, see cache no 4 (Solomen's Temple) for instructions.
Please respect the farm, no litter, no touching. Thank you.
Church History
• The order of the Knights Templer was established in 1118 by Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem.
• Prior to 1174 the Lady de CAUX founded a Knights Templer site here.
• In 1185 the Knights Templar established a large Preceptory here. Eventually their holdings grew to over 10,000 acres and included land in 28 different parishes. Most was used for grazing sheep. The Preceptory temple was reserved for the Knights and the common people could not enter.
• It is presumed that there was a separate church for commoners in the old Knights Templars parish, but no records from it have been found.
• In 1311, the Knights Templar order was suppressed by the Council of Vienna and Temple Bruer was awarded to the Knights Hospitallers who converted the Preceptory into a Commandery (more a change of name than in function). But during this century the local village was deserted.
• When the monasteries were dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538, Temple Bruer was valued at £184, six shillings and 8 pence. The King granted it to Charles BRANDON, Duke of Suffolk. The King visited here in 1541.
• A 1726 engraving shows much of the Temple still standing, but 50 years later only the tower remained.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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