Rauceby Ramble Traditional Cache
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Located close to paved track on level open ground.
You are seeking a rectangular clip locked plastic container of approx. ½ litre capacity. The cache contains a log book, pencil, a TB and Geocoin, and other small trinkets.
It is located close to a well defined track suitable for pedestrian and light vehicular traffic and forming part of a 4.75 mile (7.5km) circular walk on the edge of North Rauceby village and sited between the A17 and B6430.
The cache can be arrived at as a stand alone destination or as a stopping off point on this circular walk. It is sited on the section of the walk between Main Street, North Rauceby and Rauceby Grange.
This circular walk is one of the many North Kesteven District Council ‘Stepping Out’ range of walks within the area covered by NKDC, including the well known Nocton and Blankney walks.
The circular walk passes such sites as High Wood, an area of deciduous and evergreen woodland managed by the Woodland Trust, Rauceby Grange; a medieval village site and Cranwell Aviation Heritage Centre. Good views can be had of Cranwell RAF College and Air base to the North East.
Parking can be found at N53° 00.604 W000° 29.043 for direct access to the cache, otherwise parking is available at High Wood and in South/North Rauceby villages.
This is not a busy area and Muggles are few and far between.
Further Information
The Woodland Trust
www.woodland-trust.org.uk
North and South Rauceby lie on the
Southern Lincolnshire Edge at one of
North Kesteven’s highest points.
Antiquarians even used the name
‘Rauceby Altera’ and looking east on
a clear day Boston Stump can be
seen from the hill above Heath
Farm. Anciently known as Rosbi and
listed in Domesday as Roscebi, the
name derives from the Old
Scandanavian for Rauthr+by, or
‘Rauthr’s village’.
Rauceby Hall was built by Anthony
Peacock, between 1841 – 1846, at a
cost of £24,000 (about £1M today).
The Bustard Inn was constructed
in 1860, its name allegedly
commemorates the last Great
Bustard shot in Lincolnshire. The
Bustard cost just over £800 to build,
replacing the older ‘Robin Hood’,
demolished to accommodate the
south gate of Rauceby Park.
Limestone loving plants once
common to old-fashioned meadows
and pastures can still be found in
Rauceby’s wide roadside verges.
Ancient trackways and drove roads,
like Church Lane, Drove Lane, and
Ermine Street, still provide ‘wildlife
corridors’ for barn owls, buzzards,
hares and even glow worms.
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