GC27P71 A Scalby Little Cache (Traditional Cache) in Yorkshire, United Kingdom created by autowrecker

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GC27P71 ▼

A cache by autowrecker Message this owner

Hidden : 4/29/2010

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Geocache Description:

This is a cache thats nice quick and easy if your passing by, Its placed on a public footpath just off a road where parking is free.
The cache it's self has been changed to a Micro (log only) and will benifit from something to remove the log e.g tweezers!

The Parish straddles the M62 Motorway, the A63 (downgraded to B1230 following the construction of the M62), and the main railway line to Hull and its docks. For many years the A63 through Gilberdyke formed the main road link from the South and West to Hull and beyond. Various establishments grew up to provide services for the drovers and later lorry traffic. The White Horse Inn until relatively recently still had a large upstairs room at the rear holding cots for the drovers who stayed overnight. Almost opposite was a truck-stop cafe for the Westbound drivers, now converted to a residential property.

The village takes its name from the Gilberts Dyke. In 1154 the Bishop of Durham granted to Gilbert Hansard land around Gilberdyke with leave to build a watermill and dig a channel from the River Foulness to drive the water mill and discharge into the River Ouse at Blacktoft. This had the secondary function that it could serve both as a transportation route and to drain the surrounding lowland marsh areas. By 1191 when it was completed the watercourse was 16 feet wide and 8 feet deep. To the South of the present railway two ponds still exist which were staithes and turning points for boats.

Gilberdyke was predominately an Agricultural community and following the enclosures awards sections of the carr land to the north were allotted to other local communities as summer grazing. With the flourishing transportation links of the canal, trade grew and the settlement prospered. The advent of the Hull and Barnsley Railway and the Hull to Leeds/Doncaster railway provided further strategic opportunity for the village, albeit at the expense of canal traffic. The railway tracks severed the route of the Gilberts Dyke canal, effectively leading to its demise as a traffic or drainage route. Trackside dykes provided alternative escape for the waters collected from the land to the North of the railway, and diverted this into other drainage to the West and East. A Pole-yard at the South side of the Hull to Leeds railway sprang up and formed the basis of the present day industrial estate. A Flax-Mill (now demolished) was built at the North side of the track adjacent to the station and it has, as its legacy, given its name to Flaxmill Walk and the Flaxmill pond. The original Gilberts Dyke can be seen in a much reduced form as an open ditch alongside Sandholme Road but for much of its route now runs underground in a Victorian brick arched culvert from Sandholme Road to the junction of Clementhorpe Road and Clementhorpe Lane. The route lies within the front gardens of the dwellings alongside the Western side of Clementhorpe Road. From the junction with Clementhorpe Lane it is diverted into a more recently culverted underground drainage system running alongside Scalby Lane.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)