Magwitch #2, Harwich Redoubt Traditional Geocache
Hanoosh: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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Brenda
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Magwitch #2, Harwich Redoubt
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This is the second cache named after the shanty duo I sing in and has been placed to commemerate our time singing in Harwich last weekend.
The cache is (just) on private land but with the owners permission and they have kindly agreed to look after and maintain the cache for me.
If you visit the fort, try singing down in the courtyard, the acoustics are amazing.
The fort is almost invisible from the town and riverside because of the housing developments that have been built round it.
The official history:
Harwich redoubt is a circular fort commanding the eastern side of Harwich port. It was built between 1807 and 1809 to support Landguard Fort on the opposite shore near Felixstowe and to form part of the chain of Martello Tower defences. It is 200 feet in diameter, is surrounded by a deep ditch and can only be entered by one removable drawbridge. It was originally armed with 10 cannon but these were upgraded in the 1860's and 1870's and by 1872 three 9 inch RML guns were in place. One still remains although it is thought the other two are buried in the moat. In the 1920's it was abandoned and the surrounding housing built. It was taken over by the Harwich Society in 1969, by which time it was completely overgrown, but it has now been fully restored.
Muggles abound on the allotments but you should have enough cover to retrieve the cache without being seen.
Be careful that you don't snag yourself on the barbed wire. Keep children close to hand, there is a nasty drop into the moat. It is fully fenced, but we all know how curious children can be...
Please take care to re-hide the cache thoroughly as a lot of local mugglettes play round this area.
If you want to visit the fort it is open every day in the summer (May - September) but only on Sundays in the winter. If you walk round the outside of the moat (free) the river views are spectacular on clear days.
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Ba gur tebhaq oruvaq gur unjgubea.