COALPOST # 207 Traditional Cache
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Located near the junction of Birchwood Road and Leydenhatch lane. Parking available in Leydenhatch Lane, coords N51 24.409 E000 09.659. The road the cache is placed in is very busy at times, please take care with children.
The posts were erected under the London Coal and Wine Duties Continuance Act 1861, but some were originally set up under earlier nineteenth century Acts. The duties whose area of application they marked out originated in the seventeenth century and earlier. The City of London had exercised the right of 'metage' (measuring) of coal and other commodities since mediaeval times and these rights were confirmed by two Charters of King James 1. The City was later permitted to set up "a boundary stone, or some other permitted mark " where any turnpike road, public highway, railway or canal entered the district.
The surviving boundary marks define the London district after it was changed in 1861. Most posts were erected by the sides of roads, but very little coal actually came into London by road or canal.
Of the original 250-260 posts about 200 have survived. A few on land owned by the City of London, in areas such as Epping Forest, and commons of Kent and Surrey.
The cache when placed contained, a Sayer Voyager's Compass Rose Token and a FTF badge for the first to find.
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