Colchester is reputed to be the home of three of the best known English nursery rhymes: 'Old King Cole', 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star', and ‘Humpty Dumpty’.
Old King Cole was a merry old soul,
and a merry old soul was he;
He called for his pipe in the middle of the night
And he called for his fiddlers three.
Every fiddler had a fine fiddle, and a very fine fiddle had he;
Oh there's none so rare as can compare
With King Cole and his fiddlers three
The nursery rhyme Old King Cole is based on a medieval story which tried to explain how Colchester got its name and why there are Roman ruins in the town. In the legend, a King called Coel ruled Colchester and had a daughter called Helena who was the mother of the first Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine the Great. The legend is also the reason why St. Helena is the Patron Saint of Colchester.
In Colchester there is a large earthwork/roman gravel pit, supposed to have been a Roman amphitheatre, which goes popularly by the name of "King Cole's kitchen. The small wooded area in King Coel Road can still be seen today but is however part of private property and can not be visited. In view of this we have been unable to place the cache at the reputed site, therefore it is placed within a short walking distance of the wooded area of 'King Coles Kitchen'.
This is a log only cache, please bring a pen to sign.