GC25J2G The Tudor Chimney- Belhus Woods Country Park (Traditional Cache) in Eastern England, United Kingdom created by SXParx, adopted by Unobtainium

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A cache by SXParx, adopted by Unobtainium Message this owner

Hidden : 3/25/2010

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is set as part of the Essex Country Parks/Trailnet - Heritage Lottery Funded Geocaching project.

Bell house or Belhus was a large Tudor courtyard house, remodelled for Lord Dacre from 1744 to 1747 Chapman and André show the park by Capability Brown, enlarged from 1770 to 1771 by Richard Woods, the Essex landscape designer who lived nearby at North Ockendon. The 300-acre deer park with its fine trees still attracted admiration in 1897.

The estate and park is now the Country Park with responsibility shared between several owners: Essex County Council, the Forestry Commission and the Woodland Trust. The house was demolished in 1957 and part of its 18th-century park is now a golf course. But two wooded mounds, and the shrubbery, now a woodland walk, remain from the 18th-century layout, also a long pond now bisected by the M25. The grounds adjoin Belhus Chase to the north, recently acquired by the Woodland Trust and planted with native trees, and the adjacent Country Park, which has lakes in former gravel workings.

The Tudor Chimney

Some features of the estate can still be found within the Country Park. One of the most prominent is the fine eighteenth century brick stench pipe that stands near Long Pond. Effluent from the mansion was used to fertilise the fields with manholes as access and the time honoured method of shovel and barrow to spread it. Later Sir Thomas mechanised the process installing an engine to provide power and instead of using a simple metal pipe to create an up draught a more dignified chimney was built.

Bricks for this structure and even the rebuilding of the mansion its self in 1745 - 1777 were probably made locally. Brick making had taken place at Belhus since at least 1603 at a site which lay on the northern boundary of Aveley Parish this continued throughout the seventeenth Century, but was abandoned by the 1840's.

Please replace this carefully.
You are looking for a 35mm film pot

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Qba'g onex hc gur jebat gerr naq purpx bhg gur erpyvavat bar.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)