Pugh, Pugh..... Traditional Cache
flamedodger: Looks like this will remain another un solved case for Doris! [:D]
Archiving some of my older caches now to try and focus on quality.
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Do not park or enter private property! This cache is on the public footpath.
Parking is available close to GZ on Churchill Rd.
Stealth will be required, as this is a popular cut through path.
Do not try to find this cache on a Wednesday between 1830 and 2130hrs, as you may get a little more than bargained for.
You are searching for a small screw top cache, please leave exactly as found, once you've signed the log. BYOPP
The first Saxon settlement at Earls Barton was one of various settlements built on a spring-line on the Northern bank of the River Nene. The site is to be found on a spur above the flood plain. Originally (i.e. before 600 AD) the Saxon village was known as Bere-tun - which means "a place for growing Barley. Following the Norman invasion, the Domesday Book records the village as being called Buarton(e), with Countess Judith, the King's niece is listed as both the land and mill owner. She married Waltheof, Son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria who in 1065 AD became Earl of Northampton - it was from these links and with another Earl - the Earl of Huntingdon, that gave the village its prefix "Erles" from 1261 AD.
Later, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries a major change took place in the local economy, when sheep rearing gave prominence to the manufacture of woollen cloth, which remained a major cottage industry until the shift to the newly industrialised north several centuries later. With the wool industry, we would also have found:
Rush mat weaving,
Basket making,
Chair bodging and
plastic making.
Another change took place in the thirteenth century when shoes began to be made from leather bought in nearby Northampton. At this time the village had its own tanyard, which remained in operation until 1984. The census of 1801 shows that the population had by then grown to 729. By 1850 the population had trebled.
Between 1913 and 1921 opencast ironstone mining was undertaken locally with the ore being transferred either by locomotive or by an aerial ropeway.
FTF Honours go to Topsdee
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Onearl ZpTerj, Phguoreg, Qvooyr, Tehoo.....
Jub'f orra fryyvat fgbyra tbbqf?
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