Bunker Hill Traditional Geocache
BiShCa: I am at an age (Nearly 84) where I do not have the time to maintain this cache.
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A medium sized camouflaged plastic clip top box, with a FTF certificate and prize plus log book and a few swaps.
Please keep to the Public Footpath especially through the farmyard and keep dogs on a lead.
The first field is quite rough so is unsuitable for Buggies etc.
A brief history of Boughton Park and its Follies.
I would like to acknowledge Simon Scott for allowing me to use information he researched for his book "The Follies of Boughton Park".
The book was published to raise public awareness of the importance of the Park and its structures which would have been at risk had a proposed Northampton Northern By-pass which would have passed through the Park been constructed.
The Park and Structures are now protected by English Heritage, the structures being Grade II listed.
There has been a Hall at Boughton Park since 1340 when the estate was purchased by the Green family who are thought to have built the original Hall.
The run down Boughton and Pitsford estate was purchased by Thomas Wentworth the first Earl of Strafford of the second creation in 1717 to provide him with a stopping off place on his journies between his properties in London and his main seat at Stainsborough Hall in Yorkshire.
Stainsborough Hall was later renamed Wentworth Castle and it was here that Thomas Wentworth built many Gothic style landscape structures including a mock castle, cascade and a temple.
The Follies at Boughton Park are generally based on those at Wentworth Castle, they were built by William Wentworth the second Earl of Strafford of the second creation, who inherited the title on the death of his father Thomas in 1739.
Follies and other Structures still standing :
The Hawking Tower (OS ref SP 748660)
The Grotto (OS ref SP 755667)
The Obelisk (OS ref SP 753652)
The Spectacle (OS ref SP 767660)
New Park Barn (OS ref SP 754669) *
Bunkers Hill Farm (OS ref SP 761666)
* now a private residence.
The Church of St John the Baptist
Holly Lodge.
BUNKERS HILL FARM.
Bunkers Hill Farm was built in 1776, it has many similarities to "Strawberry Hill" a house in Twickenham London rebuilt in Gothic style by Horace Walpole in 1750. Horace Walpole was not only the first Prime Minister of England but also a major influence on the revival of Gothic architecture and literature.
Bunkers Hill Farm was built in 1776 and named after the Battle of Bunkers Hill (17 June 1775) which was the first major engagement of the American War of Independence.
The farm was built on the brow of a hill and the two sides which would have been visible from Boughton Park have castellated facades and quatrofoil windows, these details are extended to the outbuildings. To the West elevation is a castellated arched gateway, there is a date stone "S 1773" with the "S" standing for Strafford.
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