The Toosey Trail #1 - The Quay Traditional Cache
The Toosey Trail #1 - The Quay
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You are looking for a small clipseal. Footpaths can get muddy and are unsuitable for wheelchairs and pushchairs.
This is the start of the series that will take you around the village of St. Osyth (or Toosey) in a circular walk of approximately 4.5 miles.
THERE IS NO BONUS NUMBER IN THIS CACHE.
At the free parking area there are 2 pubs nearby and a tea room. Look for clues to the bonus cache on log books or inside the cache.
Back in the seventh century, Viking pirates sailed up a muddy Essex creek. Legend has it they captured a lonely nun who, when offered a choice between her 'modesty or her mortality', chose to die. The nun carried her severed head up the hill to her church where she collapsed. Where she lay a spring bubbled up.
The nun was St Osgyth, or Osyth, the wife of the Saxon king of Essex, who chose the veil rather than consummate her marriage. The site of her death became a shrine and a busy settlement grew up. In the 12th century Richard de Belmais, bishop of London, founded a large Augustinian priory in the middle of the village. This became a powerful establishment, which, by the time of the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s, was one of the wealthiest Augustinian monasteries in Europe.
A few years ago a local boat builder noticed some decayed timbers sticking out of the mud in St Osyth Creek. The tides gradually revealed more of these timbers, which are on a significant bend in the channel. Could they be the remains of a medieval wharf that served the town in its early days?
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