Grovenor Park Letterbox Hybrid
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Your looking for a small plastic container hidden within the boundaries of Grovenor Park in Chester.
This is Chester's first letterbox Hybird, there's no catch the cache is at the above listed coordinates.
PLEASE NOTE: The park is locked at Dusk, and while the park is locked the cache won't be accessible.
In addition to ornamental flower beds, grassed areas, trees and footpaths, the park contains a number of other features. Before the park was established there was in one of the fields a well, Billy Hobby's Well, which was reputed to have magical properties. John Douglas designed a canopy to stand over the site of the well. Money was raised by public subscription to erect a statue to the 2nd Marquess in 1859. The statue was originally surrounded by four guns, two being Boer guns which were captured in the Boer War and the other two were Russian guns which had been captured at Sebastopol in the Crimean War. The guns are no longer present. In the park are three fragments from medieval buildings. St Mary's Arch with its wing walls dates from around the 13th century and formerly stood in St Mary's Benedictine Nunnery; the Old Shipgate Arch formerly stood to the west of the Bridgegate and was taken down in 1831; and Jacob's Well Drinking Fountain consisting of a small stone arch with a drinking fountain for people and a dish for their pets, which is now dry. Also in the park is an archway which was removed from St Michael's church. During the laying out of the park a long line of Roman earthenware water-pipes was discovered close to the lodge which used to bring fresh water from Boughton to the Roman fortress. In the 1950s a rockery was constructed on the southern edge of the park with waterfalls, streams and fountains. The main gates of the park, together with other gate piers and sections of the park walls, all designed by John Douglas, are listed Grade II.
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Haqre na rireterra, haqre n cvyr bs cvarf.