Isobel & Sophie's Birthday Cache Traditional Cache
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Isobel & Sophie's Birthday Cache
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This is a simple cache for anyone walking the Cotswold Way. It is between the Village of Old Sodbury and Little Sodbury. The Footpath may be muddy and slippery after wet weather) so don’t wear your Sunday best! Also livestock may be present in the fields so take care to control any canine companions.
The cache is a small clip lid container, placed with the kind permission of the owner and tenant of Hayes farm
The closest parking is between Old Sodbury CofE Primary School and the 900 year old Church of Saint John the Baptist. The Church of Saint John the Baptist is late Norman or Transitional. It has two effigies of knights. One is late 14th century, carved in wood, and the other is dated to 1240, carved in stone, and featuring a very large shield. These two are considered to have been lords of the local manor.
In the churchyard at Old Sodbury are a number of old bale-tombs; these were tombs for rich merchants. Some of the gravestones date back to the early 19th century. Just outside the churchyard on the hillside is a topograph (a large stone with an engraving), installed to commemorate the second millennium, that shows Old Sodbury in relation to its geographical surroundings. This is the starting point for another local cache “Sodbury Slog” GC1FMJE.
Old Sodbury is a small village in the valley of the River Frome just below and to the west of the Cotswold escarpment and to the east of Chipping Sodbury. It lies on an old coaching route, and is much more ancient than its westerly neighbour, Chipping Sodbury: hence the name 'Old' Sodbury. Its name is recorded in Anglo-Saxon (in the dative case) as Soppanbyrig = "Soppa's fort" and in Domesday Book as Sopeberie.
The striking symbol of the village is the crenellated tower on the escarpment immediately above and to the East of the village, resembling a rook chesspiece, visible from the main road, that performs the function of a ventilation shaft (the first of six) for the Chipping Sodbury Tunnel, on the main line from South Wales, via Bristol Parkway to London Paddington). These shafts were designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway, which runs through the village and under the hill above it.
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(Decrypt)
Jura lbh pna frr obgu raqf bs gur cngu ybbx jrfg vg vf nobhg 150sg njnl.
Vs lbh ybbx qbja lbh jvyy zvff vg.
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