National Trust Freshfield : Sandfield Farm Traditional Cache
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National Trust Freshfield : Sandfield Farm
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This cache is set with permission of the National Trust.Parking for the National Trust is at The National Trust Reserve, Victoria Road, Freshfield. There is a parking charge . It is also possible to park outside St Lukes Church Formby or considerately on roads approaching the Reserve in Freshfield. If you are local and able to walk to the caches all the better!
A cache situated near Sandfield Farm, where a local asparagus grower, in partnership with the National Trust , is growing the crop in this recently cultivated field.
This coastal area was, until the mid-nineteenth century, regarded as a "sandy waste", useful mainly as rabbit warren. Following the construction of the Liverpool, Crosby and 'Southport Railway in 1848, considerable supplies of fertiliser in the form of 'night-soil' from Liverpool became available (A sewer system had not yet been completed). This enabled local farmers to "improve" and bring into cultivation the previously uncultivated rear-dune area, particularly suitable for their chosen crop - asparagus. This subsequently developed over some 200 acres and became a very important local product, the quality of which made Formby well known nationally. Cultivation decreased after WW2 and is now continued only on one small holding situated within the National Trust Property. There is a strong association between the NT Property and some of the well-known 'asparagus families', notably the Lowes, Aindows, Jennings and Brooks.
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