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The Manor House Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Bunjil: I cannot see any information that suggests to me that steps have been taken to resolve the issue/s associated with this placement - one or more of the following applies:

             - Cache Owner unable to maintain cache 
             - No response from the cache owner.
             - No cache to find or log to sign.
             - It has been more than 28 days since the last owner note.
             - Cache has been abandoned by cache owner/cache in disrepair

As a result I am archiving this cache to keep from continually showing up in search lists and to also prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the next 28 days, just contact a reviewer (by email and include GC number in cache name) and, assuming it still meets the current guidelines, the reviewer will be happy to unarchive it.

If there are components or remnants of the cache and you haven't already done so, please return to the GZ and collect the cache (or remnants). We don't want to litter our environment with Geotrash.

Should you wish to replace the cache after 28 days has passed please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

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Hidden : 6/2/2010
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The brick & stone Manor House was built between May 1846 and August 1847 by retired army Captain William Henry Bacchus.
(See Story of Two Captains- GC8A51 by maccamob)

The bricks were locally made and the sandstone was from Matson's Quarry on Bald Hill. (See No-Balled Hill GC209WR) The house originally had a cedar shingle roof, but it has now been replaced with iron. A dividing wall in the attic is of sawn stringybark. The kitchen had it's own baker's oven. Under the stairs in the entrance hall, steps led down to the cellars with another cellar door just outside the kitchen.
After being sold by the Bacchus family in 1851, it has been variously used as a Court House and station for mounted police, as a residence, and was once owned by Lifeguard Milk Products before becoming derelict and being threatened with demolition.

It wasn't until a subdivision of the substantial 12 acre site in 1961 that restoration work commenced on this important piece of Bacchus Marsh's history.

It is now privately owned, so the cache is on the nature strip off the property. Please be mindful of the privacy of the current owners and their neighbours

Cache is now a nano, disguised to suit its surroundings.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Va gur gerr gehax. Urnq urvtug.

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)